/ck/ - Food & Cooking

https://sandiego.eater.com/maps/38-best-restaurants-in-san-diego
Is a good start. Stay away from Gaslamp, whatever you do.

>>14155682
What’s wrong with gaslamp?

>>14155738
It's just tourist central. Bunch of mediocore bars and restaurants peddling crappy food and drinks at inflated prices, plus it's always full of loud tourists and homeless people. There's no local character at all; you could have the same experience in any other downtown area in the western world really.
I would suggest Little Italy, North Park, and Parkcrest, in that order if you want an evening out in the downtown area. All three of those areas have some really good food and drink options that are within walking distance of each other.

>>14155507
>eat
nigga you don't go to San Diego to eat, you go to DRINK

>>14155507
bumped and in a new thread, going there soon maybe

SAN DEE YAY GO

Hodads

>>14155507
>>14155806
you don't go to San Francisco to eat or drink
unless you mean eat dicks and drink semen
SF is the gayest city in the world with a 97% homosexuality rate.
If you consume ANYTHING there, expect to get AIDS. not kidding at all.
It's not against the law to give someone AIDS there.
Just look up "pozzed"
Gays get off on giving other men AIDS

>>14155834
Do you just have gay dicks on your brain?

The thread is about San DIEGO not San FRANCISCO you queer, and your image is about a restaurant in Canada. Fucking hell, how stupid are you?

>>14155507
Hell if I know.

t. studied there for 4 years and never left the computer lab

>>14155806
Well I’m stationed here now so I can do both.

>>14155830
It’s okay I been there before. Was at the gaslamp one not the PB one though.

>>14155507
anywhere you can get a california burrito.

Redwing bar in North Park has some of the best bar food I've ever had

>>14155507
San Diego does casual dining ok, but does not do fine dining well at all unless you have an expense account, and even then it's not great.

Best fine dining restaurants are George's California Modern ($$$$$; but George's Ocean Terrace on the top level is much less expensive) and Addison (again, $$$$$). A step below that are Marine Room and Cowboy Star.

There is some decent (though hipster) Italian at Bueno Forcetta and Cucina Urbana.

Fish tacos are good at Puesto. Lordes has good Mexican food but you have to go to the hood to get there.

Most of the Little Italy restaurants with all the hype (Kettner Exchange, Born and Raised, Juniper and Ivy, etc) are not really that great.

>>14155806
This is accurate. Breweries are generally solid here.

Tacos el gordo. Amazing al pastor

For some fast food, Rubios still uses the original la bufadora recipe where baja fish tacos came from. That's the only thing I'd eat there, you can get beer there too. There's a couple In n Outs if you're from outside the west.

Hole in the wall taco shop for carne asada burritos or fries, Colimas in North Park.

South Beach bar and Grill in Ocean Beach for epic fish tacos and local San Diego brew. I don't know if they're open but Island Prime or the attached C-Level are great for dinner.

Definitely try to make it to Extraordinary Desserts.

My secret spots: Park House Eatery in University Heights and if you can find the way in, Noble Experiment for cocktails.

>>14155890
>Most of the Little Italy restaurants
filipis, been going there since I was a kid and it was just the little meat market

>>14155855
Just stay on coronado and watch the buds run around

>>14155952
Not a big fan of filipis pizza because i think it is too cheesy, but I would also not lump it in with the rest of the little italy restaurants I mentioned, because it isn't really a hyped place like the others are.

Anyways, back to recommendations: Wine Vault and Bistro has good prix fix menus at very fair prices. Up the hill from there Shakespears is a nice enough pub. Tiger Tiger and Blind Lady Ale House are good brewpubs. Panama 66 in Balboa Park is nice for the ambiance (live music, sculpture garden, good beers and cocktails, long wait for food though). Fish Market & Grill is OK. In north county, Urge and Churchills (San Marcos) have great tap lists.

>>14155947
I’m sorry but carne asada fries are the most overrated thing about San Diego. Maybe I just hate guac but I fell so hard for the hype only to be disappointed

>>14155985
>le pizza hut
Filipis Pizza Grotto is legit. They use real mozzarella, real cold cuts, and have excellent pasta. It's really difficult to get good comfort Italian. They do a great job.

>>14156040
de gustibus non est disputandum, friend.

>>14156021
>maybe I just hate guac
seriously shut the fuck up your opinion is retarded

>>14155507
La Perla has the best burritos. The Carne asada is fucking amazing

>>14156048
Guac and sour cream are gross

>>14156088
This

>>14155507
Nice picture, totally a composite though. I used to live in the apartment building in the lower left, Upshur St.

Go to Las Quatro Milpas and Mitch's Seafood. Whisknladle is good too, but that's La Jolla.

>>14156088
>>14156157

>>14155507
Juniper & Ivy

For me its
>Taeguki (korean bbq all you can eat)
>Albertos (hole in the wall california burritos, make sure its not one of the copycats)
>Extraordinary Desserts (in the name lel)
>Fillipis (Cheap Italian, pizza is great with amazing dough, lasagna is great, the house dressing is fucking kino)
>Buca Di Beppo (More chain-y italian, good thin crust pizza and pasta)
>>14155952
based an fillipis pilled, i have also been going there every year for my birthday since i was very young. 2x the family special to feed everyone + some tadty as fuck cold 'za the next day

>>14155860
faggot

>>14156318
>>Fillipis (Cheap Italian, pizza is great with amazing dough, lasagna is great, the house dressing is fucking kino)
>>Buca Di Beppo (More chain-y italian, good thin crust pizza and pasta)
bro these are both literally garbage quantity over quality italian joints. literal fucking garabge. there's an italian joint near balboa park that sells gourmet pizzas for cheaper than fillipis trash

>>14156318
>buca di beppo
There's so many good Italian spots in SD and you're recommending a shitty chain spot? Boomer faggot

>>14156040
no. fillipis is terrible. if you want comfort italian there's a place in chicano park run by italians who used to be in fine dining

>>14156340
filippis is great anon, suck my cannoli

>>14155919
No. Don't do this. If you want authentic tacos just go to Tijuana. You're only like ten minutes from the border anyway. While you're there hit up Adelita's or The Hong Kong Club.

>>14156379
filippis is probably the restaurant i've been to most in my entire life. my family loved the place. it's definitely trash. i'd rather have a costco pizza

>>14155507
For me it's the fish market.

>>14156392
>Hong Kong
Fucking based. Tacos el gordo is pretty authentic though. They originated in TJ

>>14156395
>he doesnt love costco pizza
opinion discarded

>>14156417
no i do love costco pizza, my point is that any proper restaurant making pizzas that taste worse than those of a department store food court is not worth my time or money

>>14155507
Blue Water Grill at various locations
El Salvador Pupuseria in North Park
SALUD! in Barrio Logan
Kaiserhof in Point Loma
Pomegranate Russian in North Park
Awashe Ethiopian in North Park
Kroran Uyghur Cuisine in Balboa

>>14156432
>>14156417
>>14156395
>>14156379
>>14156368
>>14156360
>>14156340
>>14156318
>>14156040
>>14155985
>>14155952
So is filipis good or not?

>>14156585
i am unironically going to link reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/69ba6m/filippis_pizza/

>The people of San Diego have really untrustworthy taste in restaurants. Food often takes a back seat to decor or longevity.

>>14156609
Faggot

>>14156609
>People don't have the palate for good Italian food here. Take the best Italian restaurant out of most major cities and put it in SD and it would fail, unfortunately.

>>14155507
>Seafood
Point Loma Seafood

>Subs
Mona Lisa

>Breakfast
Perry's
Clayton's
Family House of Pancakes

>Sandwiches
Which Wich
Supernatural Sandwiches

>Pizza
Bronx Pizza

>Elder God-tier Burgers
Hodads

>Also good burgers
Burger Lounge
In-n-Out
Boll Weevil

>Italian
The Venetian

>Taqueria
Dos Brasas
Albetos

>Great but expensive and somewhat pretentious steakhouse
Stake

>less expensive and much less pretentious steaks that aren't as good
Cafe la Maze

>Fried Chicken
Crack Shack

>Great German food
Kaiserhof

>Bakery
Bread and Cie
Solunto

>Greek
Alexi's Greek Cafe

>Deli
Mona Lisa, again

>Ice cream
Vero Gelato

>Places worth trying if you head a bit north
Zen Curry
Kura

>Barbeque
Phil's

>Breweries
Stone
Ballast Point
Fucking any of them really

>fast food chains
Jolibee
In-n-Out
L&L

1/2

>shit worth doing/seeing
The Zoo (seriously - if you have one free day, the zoo is what you should do)
The various museums in Balboa Park
Party boat fishing
The downtown library
OB pier
Coronado and Mission Hills (if you like looking at cool old houses)
The farmer's markets, especially the one in Hillcrest on Sunday mornings

>meh
The Midway
KC Barbeque
Old Town
Mission Beach
IB pier
IB in general
Don Poncho's
The beaches

>Shit to avoid
Anything in or near the Gaslamp and/or convention center
The stupid fucking trolley bus tours
The homeless
Most of Chula Vista and ALL of San Ysidro
Being on northbound 5 before 11
Being on southbound 5 after 3PM

Just a handful of places I'd recommend off the top of my head from personal experience. I really can't recommend Mona Lisa and Bronx Pizza enough; the former serves hands down the best subs for several hundred miles around on top of being an outstanding italian deli and the latter is god-tier pizza even by NYC standards. Also, Fillipi's fans can eat my ENTIRE asshole; even my uncle's yellow lab refuses to eat it.

>>14156392
Ten minutes*

>*and a two-hour wait at the border each way

2/2

>>14157341
>the zoo
Yes, have been, it’s a nice one
>various museums
Also yes, they have a plaza with like 10 museums, it’s very enjoyable. Saw a bunch of weddings there when I took my bike and accidentally got there from the back way.
>coronado and mission hills
Also found mission hills by mistake, was really neat to ride through

>>14157341
Old Town is awesome great restaurants and the trolley tour is fun too mission beach is fun as well sea world is more fun than the zoo imo gaslamp district is nice too for restaurants

>>14157341
Why does everyone have a hate boner for gaslamp? It’s fun if you’re just going out to get fucked up with friends.

>>14157332
I'de switch out Point Loma Seafood for Blue Water Grill

For Italian, Cesarina is now the better option and its up the street

The Chicken Pie shop in North Park is great, used to be $5 for a good sized chicken pot pie, mashed potatoes, veggies, and a slice of pie.

>>14155507
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/restaurants/

>>14155507
If you want Japanese/Chinese/Korean you can drive up Convoy Street between Aero Drive and Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Also both Balboa Ave and Clairemont Mesa Blvd have all sorts of Asian restaurants - at least between the 805 and Genesee Ave.
Filipino - Mira Mesa Blvd west of the I-15
Ethiopian, Vietnamese - El Cajon Blvd Western part
Middle Eastern - El Cajon Blvd Eastern part
Mexican - anywhere really but Barrio Logan has a lot of good places
Italian - all over Little Italy

>>14156207
>Whisknladle is good too, but that's La Jolla
was
https://sandiego.eater.com/2020/5/7/21238352/san-diego-restaurants-permanently-closed-coronavirus

>>14155871
I moved east after growing up there and california burritos are one of the few things I miss.

>>14157954
It's overpriced (even by San Diego standards, which is saying something), full of bums and tourists and gimmicky as shit.

>>14158084
>I'de switch out Point Loma Seafood for Blue Water Grill
Point Loma seafood is better hands-down; idgaf that it's basically take-out. A halibut sandwich from there is about as good as it gets.

Just head down to TJ and go to Hong Kong

>>14159148
>>14158084
>point loma seafood
Plus you can take out your sandwich and walk half a block to Eppig brewing's location at the marina. Really good german-style beer

Drive up the poway and cruise down poway road util you hit the mexican restaurant that's just a drive through shaped like a big barn. Order the california burrito and ask for red sauce INSIDE the burrito. That's all you need.

I'm a huge fucking normie who lives in North County, aside from fast food joints like In-N-Out and Freddy's I mostly just go to places in Restaurant Row in San Marcos

>>14159274
>San Marcos
For me, it's Phils BBQ

>>14159376
never been there
I prefer Fish House Vera Cruz, Old California Mining Company, Katsu, and Mr. Taco
also an Outback steakhouse opened up here recently and it was actually the best steak I'd ever had when my family dragged me along which surprised me because the other times I'd been to Outback it fucking sucked

I'm in North County. I like to go to North Park and read @ Lestats which is sort of "hipster" but really good coffee shop.

For Tea I like Teastation in Clairemont.

Breakfast at Broken Yolk or Tip Top Meats.

Lolita's is cheap mexican food thats good.

Best donuts are in Escondido at Petersons.

>>14155507
I love the food in sd but I hate visiting because there are always so many beautiful rich people with nice clothes and happy social lives practically everywhere, makes me feel like a literal untouchable

>>14159905
Start visiting Portland instead. Uglier people AND better food.

For breakfast, go to Tip Top Meats. Unlimited meats for cheap.

>>14156609
you need to go back to plebbit and take your shit tier yelp reviews with you
>Food often takes a back seat to decor
Filipis is literally a first generation Italian families convenience store that they converted into a family restaurant. They use picnic blankets for table cloths and hang up cheap grappa bottles all over the place for fun. This reviewer is a tremendous faggot and if it's not you I suspect you are getting plowed by their overweight sloppy ass.

tl;dr filipis is god tier simple comfort food

>>14159918
I think I will, thanks for the tip

San Diego's "hole in the wall" taco shops absolutely destroy the best Mexican "restaurants" in the United States. It's not even close, anywhere.

>>14159815
>broken yolk
What's with some of you anons recommending chains? If I'm visiting somewhere i don't want to eat at any fucking chain places

>>14159952
truth, the best shit is the sopes

>>14159956
I love sopes but if I had to pick one item I'd go for diablo shrimp burritos, right after carne.

>>14159981
burritos are my favorite right after sopes

>>14159990
Honorable mention to the humble quesadilla. There for you on those off days when you want a burrito but don't want to be immobilized for more than two hours.

>>14159925
>food takes a back seat to decor
>proceeds to defend the restaurant by only describing the decor

>>14155507
>>14155682
Gaslamp is pretty touristy, but this place is probably one of my favorite restaurants in the country.

www.cafesevilla.com/

>>14160024
>says decor matters
>describes a lack of concern for "decor"
>reddit
fuck I wish we really could send you back

>>14159918
Yea but it’s Portland

>>14159981
How can anyone eat that much shit?

>>14160025
There are a lot of great little places all over downtown. The problem is they come and go so often and it's difficult to find the good spots, then gouging for mediocre product. Then the city tolerates the homeless population there.

>>14160044
Do you even lift?

>>14160044
He's a fat fuck, that soft ass forearm's at least twice the size of his wrist lel

>>14155507
Pannikin (La Jolla) is a good coffee shop. I'm not just saying this because i work there haha

>>14160003
I've never seen beef that good in a mexican restaurant
great carnitas and chicken sure, but that's the shit I can only find from japanese places

>>14158273
I'm glad someone else knows this place. Fucking legendary spot, great chicken pies, and huge proportions. Perfect for the night after a big party

>>14160054
Aint easy being 233lbs of pure muscle. if everyone on /ck/ was put in a steel cage and forced to fight to the death I would easily be the last man standing, genuinely

i sit here sometimes looking at the smart arse posts you little students and neets make and just chuckle to myself because if you ever said anything like that to my face (as if you would dare) you could literally be eating pavement in under a second

think on

Was planning on visiting next year. Probably not any more, though.

>>14160068
No shit? I stop in there on occasion when visiting La Jolla. Will definitely stop in again next time I am there (no idea when that will be with quarantine though).

Trujillos taco shop, they have great traditional items and some meme items like a homemade crunchwrap

>>14160114
>Colima's North Park
This is why people always talk about San Diego's taco shops. That's literally from a hole in the wall taco shop down the street from my house.

>>14160166
then your faggot ass can eat a fucking burrito

I'd rather stay in my little neck of the woods in El Cajon and go to Antonelli's personally.

>>14155507
There's also the buffet option at Indian casinos but they're closed.

>>14160003
>immobilized for more than two hours.
Amateur.

Unless we're talking about one of those meme mega-burritos some places make. I ordered one of those once at Rigoberto's up by Miramar because I had been running around and working for like ten hours straight without eating and it was cheaper than buying two items. I thought that because I was both fat and ravenously hungry I was prepared to meet the challenge but five pounds of burrito and eight little cups of extra hot salsa later I had to throw in the towel and take home what was left.

>>14155507
Find yourself a good adobada/carnitas burrito from one of the local mexican places.

>>14156433
I'm sad that Pomegranate removed that big pomegranate from the top of the restaurant.

>>14157332
Crack Shack is super overrated.

>>14155855
Navy, marines or coast guard?

>>14155507
Super Sergios.

>>14163473
>Crack Shack is super overrated.
And also super overpriced, but it's not like you have a lot of options for fried chicken. At any rate the sandwiches are really damn good.

Ass, from what I hear

>>14163995
Based

>>14155507
Hodads, bewarned the burgers are fuckhuge

>>14162270
LOL as soon as I read *bertos I knew you were one of my peeps. I generally only eat at the 'bertos that have the bigger burritos. Food coma is inevitable. Might be because of the side of enchiladas I got to wash the rolled tacos down with. Who knows.

Also, god damn I fucking hate it up in miramar/mesa area.

>>14165450
hodad's is always busy the food is fucking delicious

>>14165643
When I said mega-burrito I wasn't exaggerating; it was made with three overlapped tortillas and weighed at least seven pounds. IIRC it cost something like $12. I had no idea what I was buying.

>>14165660
__ _________ ______?

>>14165660
Hodads is okay. I was disappointed by it.
The burgers in South Florida are better.

>>14166007
What did you order? The bacon burger is great, but everything else is bleh.

>>14166028
Just a plain double cheeseburger.

>>14166034
If you go back, make sure to get a bacon burger. They make a patty out of bacon that they put on top of the burger patty, so you get bacon in every bite. It's very good. I wouldn't go there for the burgers if they didn't do that.

>>14166049
I don’t eat bacon
No I’m not a Muslim or Jew.

>>14160610
Oh Colima’s is fucking amazing. Makes me real sad that I live on the other side of the country desu

>>14166065
Then there's no reason to go to Hodads.

Don't know why you would eat beef but not pork though. Pigs are delicious.

>>14166076
I like pork not bacon

>>14166130
I don't understand you, anon, but good luck to you regardless.

>>14166133
I don’t like the way it smells and as a general rule if I don’t like the way it smells I don’t eat it.

>>14166007
this always cracked me up on their menu. I wonder if anyone actually ever tried to order that

>>14163947
You can go to Crispy Fried Chicken on El Cajon.

>>14166621
Eh. It's cheaper but not that good. I just get sandwiches so Crack Shack is what I like.

>>14166621
>>14166649
You gotta go to Royal Mandarin and get the Salt Pepper Chicken

>>14155507
Alvaro's Mexican food in north county is incredible 24/7

>>14155507
grand opening later today. our first Howlin' Ray's type place....

>>14159376
+1 for Phil's BBQ
also La Especial Norte in Encinitas

>>14166652
Love that place.

>>14167056
Encinitas has nothing San Diego doesn't. Why would op go from one shithole (naval base) to another, worse and lamer shithole (Encinitas)

>>14155682
Shut up you retarded poor, Rei do Gado is fucking great and so are lots of other eateries there. It's all the bullshit little ___berto's that charge $10 for fucking Doritos locos and $5 for celery covered in hot sauce that are rip offs.

>>14167066
Yea it’s really good and really busy but they manage to get your food out very quickly.

>>14155507
wtf San Diego looks like that?
/pol/ told me california was an absolute shithole

>>14167931
San Diego is beautiful and is pretty conservative for a big city due to the strong influence the military has on the area.
Also you really should stay off /pol/ and threads that involve race or women. When you step outside you realize the world is not as chaotic as the internet makes it out to be.

>>14167937
San Diego is not conservative and wants to be just like LA. Similar to how Palm Springs wants to be like LA, and all the cities around the “big one” all try to copy it, oceanside and Carlsbad want to be just like San Diego (which wants to be like LA).

>>14168302
I didn’t say it was conservative, I said it was pretty conservative compared to other big cities because of the influence of the military. It’s still California.

>>14168302
>>14168309
Also, what does “Just like LA” mean?

>>14167931
u should visit

nice beaches and pretty bitches

burritos and carne asada fries galore

>>14167030
Dave's is mediocre. It's no howlin rays. I might even say the hot chicken sandwich at crack shack is better.

>>14168302
This is incorrect
People in San Diego fucking hate LA, outside of a few dildos in downtown/little italy
Oceanside is a San Diego colony though, this is true

>>14168314
too densely populated. freeways that are parking lots at rush hour. smog. we have all of that but not to the same extremes