The Best Restaurants in San Diego 2025
Surviving life in hardscrabble San Diego with any joy in your heart requires a list. On it lives your favorite taco/sushi/burger/fries/stiff-but-drinkable drink in town. This is ours—from the readers (who offered a record 138,300-plus votes) and longtime food critic Troy Johnson. We chose the must-try dishes at some of San Diego’s best restaurants and unpacked the people and trends changing our city’s dining scene for the better. Hope you’re hungry, because it’s time to dig in.
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