San Diego suggestions

Scipio
Wed, 09 May 2018 19:26:59 +0000

My recommendations:

Breakfast
Beach Grass Cafe in Solana Beach. I especially like their unique blue corn pancakes. http://www.beachgrasscafe.com/

Lunch or Dinner
Lorna’s Kitchen. a moderately-priced family restaurant that serves far better Italian food (IMO) than the pricier places in Little Italy. I recommend the Tagliatelle Bolognese.

http://www.lornasitalian.com/

If you drive out to Julian, on the same trip you can drive up Palomar Mountain to the observatory and see the famous Hale telescope with its 200 inch mirror. They also have a nice astronomy museum there. Plus the mountain itself is nice. You are out of the scrub chaparral that typifies most of San Diego and are up in the piney woods, There are some nice hiking trails in the area too.

San Diego is the oldest city in California, so if you like history you can tour the missions which were built in the 1700s…Mission San Diego de Alcala and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in Oceanside are both very nicely restored.