San Diego Restaurants
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Gaslamp Quarter / Downtown Restaurants
Ruth's Chris Steak House
Thick Sizzling Steaks
1355 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101
Conveniently situated near the San Diego Convention Center this first-class steak house is serving aged, corn-fed USDA Prime steaks to hungry guests. If you enjoy views of beautiful sunsets and the taste of world-class wines and prime steak, visit this San Diego steak house and experience the Ruth's Chris sizzle. Online reservations are suggested.
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Acqua Al 2 Ristorante
322 5th Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
With a sister restaurant in Florence, Italy, this San Diego restaurant was voted best new Gaslamp restaurant in 2001 by the Gaslamp Association for its authentic, simple and fresh Tuscan cuisine, rustic interior and excellent selection of Italian wines.
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Blue Ginger
715 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Chef Lee fires up the woks at this popular restaurant and lounge. (Description provided by Opentable.com)
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Blue Point Coastal Cuisine
565 Fifth Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
Done up like a 1940 New York supper club, this San Diego restaurant is known for martinis and dry-aged steaks in an Frank Sinatra like lounge with dark woods and low lighting.
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Chive
558 4th Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
A slick San Diego restaurant that's hip to be spare, open late and serves upscale and inventive American fusion cuisine and offering outdoor patio dining and dancing late night at the bar.
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Dakota Grill & Spirits
901 Fifth Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
Steaks and seafood get a Mesquite-tinged Southwestern touch at this award-winning San Diego restaurant with an atmosphere of casual sophistication in downtown San Diego's historic Gaslamp district.
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de Medici Cucina Italiana
815 5th Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
An upscale and elegant San Diego Italian restaurant with warm service, an Old World ambiance and authentic Italian cuisine.
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Fio's Cucina Italiana
801 Fifth Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
A mainstay downtown San Diego restaurant that offers fresh seafood daily while baking the breads and pressing the pastas in house. With over 200 wines and a local fan base, no wonder Fio's is already on its eleventh year in downtown San Diego.
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Laurel
505 Laurel Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Laurel Restaurant is consistenly ranked as one of the top fine dining restaurants in San Diego. It has been newly acquired by Tracy Borkum, owner of Kensington Grill and Chive. Together with executive chef Fabrice Poigin, Tracy will continue to offer superb dining and and award winning wine list. (Description courtesy of Opentable.com)
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Rainwater's on Kettner
1202 Kettner Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101
Since 1985, San Diego's only Eastern-style chophouse has exuded warmth and subdued elegance with rich wood paneling, intimate leather booths, and crisp white linen. Rainwater's on Kettner features Prime Midwestern Corn-Fed Aged beef, the finest and freshest seafood from around the world, veal, lamb, and pork chops. Wine Spectator has honored Rainwater's with its Best of Excellence Award since 1986, and the restaurant was chosen as one of the top steakhouses in America by Gourmet Magazine. (Description provided by Opentable.com)
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Rei do Gado
939 Fourth Ave., San Diego CA 92101
The tempting salad bar is unlimited, as is the authentic, Souther Brazil style churrasco, or salted and spit-roasted filet mignons, steaks and poultry that continuously arrive until you turn your table marker over from green to red. There's a caipirinha bar (up high in what looks like a stripper cage), where sugar cane liquor is mashed with limes and sugar to make a truly heady Brazilian cocktail.
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Rice - W Hotel San Diego
421 W B Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Global, International.
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Soleil @ K - San Diego Marriott Gaslamp
660 K Street, San Diego, CA 92101
With floor to ceiling windows and glass panel doors that disappear into the walls, the Soleil @ K restaurant has a breezy, fresh-air feel and panorama view of people parading from the energetic East Village to the gregarious Gaslamp District. (Description courtesy of Opentable.com)
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San Diego - Little Italy Restaurants
Indigo Grill
1528 India Street, San Diego CA 92101
This San Diego restaurant in Little Italy dance to a Old World Italian drum with simple and delightful Italian food served a warm and rustic atmosphere conducive to long, intimate North Italian dinners over wine.
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San Diego Mission Bay Restaurants
Baleen
1404 West Vacation Road, San Diego CA 92109
Overlooking Mission Bay, this San Diego restaurant is warm and stylish, with a Bohemian flair and a soothing, ambient New World soundtrack, serves excellent fresh seafood, and offers unbeatable al fresco dining above the waters of Mission Bay.
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Islandia Coastal Grill
1441 Quivira Road, San Diego, CA 92109
Lobster martinis, clam bake for two or a 22oz Porterhouse are three great reasons to experience Islandia Coastal Grill, San Diego's freshest seafood restaurant concept. With expansive ocean and Marina views serving as a backdrop, you're guaranteed to find the perfect destination for first class Seafood and steaks. (Description provided by Opentable.com)
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Old Town Restaurants
El Agave
2304 San Diego Ave., San Diego CA 92110
In San Diego's festive Old Town, with both Spanish Colonial and Mexican influences, this San Diego restaurant was voted best Mexican restaurant by local San Diegans for its authentic Mexican cuisine, romantic courtyards and fountains that add an old-time whimsy to the hacienda decor, along with frosty, salt-rimmed margaritas.
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Del Mar Restaurants
 Ruth's Chris Steak House
Experience the Sizzle
11582 El Camino Real, Del Mar, CA 92130
Serving aged USDA Prime steaks and featuring an award winning wine list, makes Ruth's Chris Steak House a wonderful restaurant for delightful meals. From tasty appetizers to scrumptious desserts this Del Mar restaurant is truly pleasing. Online reservations are suggested.
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Arterra
11966 El Camino Real, San Diego CA 92130
Located in Del Mar's San Diego Marriot, Anterra serves a casual but upscale American cuisine with traditional American favorites, with a San Diego flair for seafood and fresh produce, along with having a full bar.
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Poseidon
1670 Coast Blvd., Del Mar CA 92014
If this San Diego restaurant were any closer to Del Mar beach, it would be in Poseidon's living room, the sea. The outdoor patio is a stunning setting for fresh seafood and excellent but affordable California cuisine, and the circular fire pit is a warming Del Mar spot for winter nights in San Diego. Dine at this Del Mar restaurant for lunch and watch the surfers and sunbathers just steps away.
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Sbicca, an American Bistro
215 15th Street, Del Mar CA 92014
Dan and Susan Sbicca's flavorful and colorful modern American cuisine gets an oceanfront setting at this elegant but laid back seaside Del Mar restaurant.
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La Jolla/Golden Triangle Restaurants
Azul
1250 Prospect Place, La Jolla CA 92037
This San Diego restaurant's name means "Blue" in Spanish, inspired perhaps by the crystal blue La Jolla Cove it overlooks while offering standout California cuisine in a fine dining setting of gracious service.
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Donovan's
340 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla CA 92122
The place for intimate and elegant American dining in La Jolla. This San Diego restaurant is known for demure service, excellent dry-aged steaks and a wine cellar stocked with over 700 wines.
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Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar
8970 University Center Lane, San Diego CA 92122
Excellent wines by the glass and hand-cut steaks and chops make this San Diego restaurant puts an arty and inventive spin on steaks, potatoes and hearty American cuisine near the University of San Diego in La Jolla.
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Georges at the Cove
1250 Prospect Street, La Jolla CA 92037
Beloved by San Diego natives and visitors alike, George's at the Cove is a stellar La Jolla restaurant known for bustling and excellent service, inventive California cuisine strong on fresh seafood in an oceanfront setting.
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Nine-Ten
910 Prospect Street, La Jolla CA 92037
In the Grand Colonial Hotel overlooking La Jolla Cove and steps from the beach, Nine-Ten uses fresh and locally grown produce, flash flies in its exotic selection of fish flown from around the world, house smokes its own salmon and churns its own ice cream daily to offer what Nine-Ten to serve what this San Diego restaurant coins "Market Cuisine."
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Piatti
2182 Avenida de la Playa, La Jolla CA 92037
This Italian bistro in La Jolla serves authentic Italian cuisine on its landmark patio or in its colorful dining room.
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Roppongi
875 Prospect, La Jolla CA 92037
A Feng Shui San Diego restaurant that serves an inventive mix of Asian cuisines, anchored in Thai cuisine but also incorporating French, Japanese and Mediterranean influences.
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Roy's
8670 Genessee Ave., La Jolla CA 92122
Each bite of Roy's Hawaiian-Asian-fusion cuisine is sumptuous. From scallops to mahi mahi to a divine chocolate fudge explosion, Roy's will no doubt be a surprise. The wine list is impeccably tailored to complement the cuisine at this La Jolla version of a Hawaii's hippest export restaurant.
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Tapenade
7612 Fay Avenue, La Jolla CA 92037
Chef and restaurateur Jean Michel Diot has taken his French cuisine from France to New York and now to La Jolla, where his San Diego restaurant incorporates Californian influences for fine French fusion dining in La Jolla (the outdoor patio is an enchanting place for a romantic dinner).
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Trattoria Acqua
1298 Prospect St., La Jolla CA 92037
Something about La Cove already looks like the Mediterranean, and the owners of this San Diego restaurant have recreated the warm sophistication of romantic seaside restaurants in Italy and backed their vision with award-winning Mediterranean cuisine and a wine cellar stocked with over 500 wines.
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Solana Beach Restaurants
Pamplemousse Grille
514 Via de la Valle, Suite 100, Solana Beach CA 92075
This San Diego restaurant offers fine French-American dining, with a straightforward and no-nonsense tone, in a casual yet elegant brassierie setting in Solano Beach. Chef Jeffrey Strauss' culinary skills have delighted the palates of dignitarues and presidents with textured and nuanced French-American fusion cuisine.
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Coronado Restaurants
Azzura Point Restaurant
4000 Coronado Bay Rd., Coronado, CA 92118
At Azzura Point, innovative California cuisine combines with sweeping views in a relaxed classic California ambiance to critical acclaim. Sample the seasonal menus or take in the spectacular San Diego sunsets in the adjacent lounge, which offers a full selection of martinis and classic California cocktails. (Description provided by Opentable.com)
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Encinitas Restaurants
Firenze Trattoria
162 South Rancho Santa Fe Road, Encinitas, CA 92024
Italian.
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Point Loma Restaurants
Humphrey's By The Bay
2241 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego, CA 92106
American.
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