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Best FRIES in San Diego???
So where do you love to eat FRENCH FRIES!!! when you go out in San Diego? I love Islands' fries. Most of there food isn't incredible, but the fries are great----skin on and everything, extra crispy!!1 good place for the fam too
so where do you get your french fries?
Need a dark, downtown café for work
I've just moved to the Village and I'm someone who reads and writes a lot. I'm looking for a place with atmosphere where I might be able to do that. Ideally this place would have no or low music, a quiet murmur, and no wifi (I hate looking around and being immersed in a sea of laptops). I realize these things are contrary to what the public looks for in a café and thus it may be hard to find an ideal one. But then this is New York and if you can't find it here, it doesn't exist.
I frequent 71 Irving Place just below Gramercy Park and like it quite a lot, but I thought I'd see if I could do even better by querying you all here. Thanks in advance.
The Prado (San Diego)
I think they're a pretty good restaurant. I've eaten there on a few occasions, usually before a production at the Old Globe. Had the sea bass--excellent.
Balboa Park has some great museums, the Aerospace not being one of them. I love MOPA, the Mingei, and the Japanese Friendship Garden, which I know doesn't count as a museum, but still... The Park's a fun place to wander around for a couple of hours and the Museum of Art's cafe is a great place for sandwhiches and soup at lunch.
The Del Mar Farmer's Market
Thanks for the replies. MVNYC, is this at the Del Mar farmer's market or the Hillcrest one? Both sound worth checking out for a few hours. Again, thanks.
You Haven't Tasted San Diego Until You've Had...?
This is true. I think it's probably most of the food from northern Mexico, which is really the immediate influence here. From my limited experiences in Mexico, it seems we have the same sort of food served in a lot of the poorer areas that you'd find in a border city like Tijuana. Mexican street food seems to have immigrated well into San Diego fare. We don't really have a lot of the "gourmet," exotic Mexican food, but rather just the basics. That said, I don't know if the food here is in particular more Americanized, or just less diverse.
The Del Mar Farmer's Market
I was driving through Del Mar a few weeks ago and saw a tiny little sign for their farmer's market. I love browsing around farmer's markets, but I only have a few more weekends here before I have to go back to school on the east coast. Is it worth visiting?
You Haven't Tasted San Diego Until You've Had...?
Hmm... your post makes it sound as though taco shops in the East are not gringoized, or less so than in San Diego. I don't know about New York, but when I'm in Washington, it's impossible to find anything that's remotely decent as far as Tex Mex or Mexican food goes. Out here in San Diego, the food is Americanized, but no more so than anywhere else.
If you want a true San Diego experience, I would recommend eating lunch at Rubio's like someone else here has said. You can also find gourmet fish tacos, even more Americanized than those at places like Rubio's, at some of the finer seafood restaurants.
Peohe's on Coronado is one such place. It overlooks the San Diego bay and the skyline. It's a great place for a casual lunch or a beautiful, though not cheap, sunset dinner. If you go for lunch, they have excellent jerk pork sandwhiches and their chocolate desserts are decadent.
For seafood, there is a touristy, but good place in Point Loma called the Point Loma Seafood Company (I think). It's on Scott Street, which is one block west of Rosecrans (the main strip in PL), right on the water overlooking all the fishing boats and yachts. Get some fish and chips or a crab sandwhich and enjoy the view and weather.
