Restaurants in San Diego

ucsd_ucla_dad
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:24:28 +0000

‘Old Town’ is close to downtown and you could get there on the trolley (light rail). It has a lot of Mexican restaurants within walking distance of each other. It’s where San Diego started and has some of the original buildings that are setup as museums. It’s worth walking around. One Mexican place there I’ve been to a couple of times that we liked is the Cafe Coyote -
[Cafe Coyote: Authentic Mexican Food in Old Town San Diego](http://www.cafecoyoteoldtown.com/)
It’s about next door to the Old Town Mexican Cafe -
[Old Town Mexican Cafe - Sign On San Diego . com](http://www.oldtownmexcafe.com/)

As coureur said, there are lots of restaurants in the Gaslamp area which is walking distance to the convention center.

Also downtown is ‘Seaport Village’ which is a shopping area on the bay. There are some restaurants there and it’s a decent place to walk around. You can walk there from the convention center and the couple of large bayfront hotels. A bit further up (a few blocks or so) is where the San Diego Bay tour boats are berthed. I recommend doing this tour. They also have nighttime dinner cruises on the bay you might enjoy for something different.

If you can and have time, rent a car for at least a day and head north from downtown and check out the Mission Bay area as well and head up to La Jolla - around La Jolla Cove. La Jolla Cove is very scenic. Walk along the waterfront there. Just south of the cove (walking distance) is the ‘Children’s Pool’ which is really another cove. It’s now typically frequented by lots of seals. That whole area is very scenic. From the cove you can walk a couple of blocks to downtown La Jolla which has a number of more expensive restaurants and shopping.

Make sure you try some fish tacos here if you haven’t had them before and like fish okay. Rubios is a fast food type of place that has some good ones. When you look for Mexican places there are zillions of small places in strip malls, etc. and some of them are very good. My family like Robertos (the local chain coureur mentioned) but I only like some of their stuff (bean tostadas, machaca burritos).