Here are your hidden gems, only the locals know about.
Best Pizza – Venice Pizza, 50+ years in business on El Cajon Blvd. And they don’t deliver, so don’t ask. Guess why they have been is business for 50 years?
Best Chinese – Peking Cafe in North Park. Same chinese cook for 37 years running. I wonder why the locals keep coming back again and again. And they don’t advertise, like Venice.
Best Mexican – Cuatro Milpas in Barrio Logan. Limited menu, authentic taste. Not for everyone with El Torito expectations. Timeless, just like the line down the street.
Best Seafood – Tie, The Brigantine, various locations and Point Loma Seafood, only in PL. Never a bad meal at either locale.
Best Steak? The one you grill yourself at the Turf Club in Golden Hills.A unique dining experience not to be missed. A childhood memory for me, still going strong today.
Best Burger – Rocky’s Crown Pub. Excellent fries too. Down it with a draft beer and you’d think you died and gone to heaven. A hole in the wall – cash only, limited seating
Best local home-made ice cream – Tie, Neiderfranks in National City or Mariposa on Adams in Abnormal Heights. How many of you knew about Neiderfranks?
Secret parking spots, always available in Balboa Park at the height of the tourist season? Sorry, lets just keep it amongst the locals.
San Diego Museum of Art – world class.
Try the prickly pear Margarita at the Prado Restaurant. Pricey and wicked.
Nice tea selection at the Japanese Garden House next to the organ pavillion. Can you say Yerba Mate?
Best bike ride? Start at UCSD and bike up the coast to Oceanside, then, back. Make it back up the mile long hill at Torrey Pines State Park and you are ready for an Ironman.
Best Mexican Mocha coffee. Chicana Perk off Imperial and 25th. Woman-owned, artsy coffee house.
Best place to see a movie. The Ken.
Best neighborhood. Where I will purchasing my next house.
So much more to see and do in San Diego. If you are new to the area, ask a local, they know all these places and then some. To qoute another famous San Diego-un? (ite?), Ron Burgundy” When in Rome”,………….Porkman
