Consortium Holdings' proper classic-steakhouse throwback in Little Italy — red leather booths, tuxedoed waiters, tableside Caesar, bananas Foster. The San Diego steakhouse that made the classic format...
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Mastro's Ocean Club — Del Mar
Steakhouse / Seafood · Del Mar
Mastro's Ocean Club's Del Mar Highlands location — an ocean-view dining room with a piano bar, the seafood tower and butter-cake desserts that are the brand's national signatures, and one of North Cou...
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Cowboy Star
Steakhouse / Modern · East Village
East Village steakhouse with an in-house butcher shop attached — dry-aged program visible through the window, wagyu tomahawks carved tableside, and a cocktail bar that holds its own. The San Diego cho...
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Stake Chophouse
Steakhouse / Modern American · Coronado
Coronado's modern chophouse — a Prime steak program, a rooftop patio above Orange Avenue, and a dining room that gave the island its serious special-occasion table outside the Hotel del. A Coronado mo...
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Rare Society — Solana Beach
Steakhouse / Modern American · Solana Beach
Chef Brad Wise's Solana Beach chophouse — the original Rare Society, a modern steakhouse inside the Cedros Design District with a dry-aged program that made the Trust Restaurant Group a North County s...
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Eddie V's La Jolla
Seafood / Steakhouse · La Jolla
The Eddie V's La Jolla outpost — upscale seafood-and-steakhouse chain with live jazz in the V Lounge every night, Chilean sea bass as the anchor order, and one of La Jolla's better-booked special-occa...
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Donovan's Prime Seafood Grill
Seafood / Steakhouse · Gaslamp
Donovan's Gaslamp sister — a surf-and-turf version of the Donovan's Steakhouse brand, a block from Petco Park, with a reservation book that fills for every Padres home stand. The Gaslamp Donovan's cha...
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West Steak & Seafood
Steakhouse / Seafood · Carlsbad
Carlsbad's West Steak & Seafood — a white-tablecloth steakhouse-and-seafood dining room, a dry-aged beef program, a wine cellar that reads as Carlsbad's deepest, and a North County special-occasio...
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Island Prime & C Level
Steakhouse / American / Seafood · Harbor Island
Cohn Restaurant Group's Harbor Island double — Island Prime upstairs for the chophouse treatment, C Level downstairs for the open patio on the water. The same downtown-skyline view, two formats. An SD...
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333 Pacific
American / Seafood / Steakhouse · Oceanside
Cohn Restaurant Group's Oceanside fine-dining flagship — directly across from the Oceanside Pier, a raw bar and steakhouse format, and the defining North County pier-view special-occasion room since 2...