San Diego County
66 neighborhoods and towns. 6,067 independent places.
Every place on Hot Tip is independently owned. Pick a neighborhood to see what is on the map there: the restaurants, the bars, the coffee, the shops, each with its street, and its hours where we have them.
Counted on from the live Hot Tip map. Listings start from OpenStreetMap and are corrected by hand. Another 412 places sit in 57 smaller areas that have fewer than 25 listings and no page yet. They are on the map in the app.
Central San Diego
29 areas, 2,505 independent places
Mira Mesa
290North Park
12930th and University is the corner.
Little Italy
118India Street and the Saturday market.
Hillcrest
117University Avenue after dark. Dense, loud, open later than most of the city.
East Village
116Warehouses turned into coffee roasters and breweries, wrapped around the ballpark.
Adams Avenue runs a mile and a half of dive bars, record shops and breakfast.
University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard, east of the 805.
Old Town
74Where the city started. Still the oldest kitchens in it.
The City calls this planning area Navajo. It takes in San Carlos, Del Cerro, Allied Gardens and Grantville.
Park Boulevard and Adams. Coffee in the morning, natural wine at night.
Washington Street on the ridge, with the airport and the bay below it.
Mid-City
36Old houses, older bars, and the edge of Balboa Park two minutes away.
Six walkable blocks around Fern and Grape. Small, quiet, and almost entirely owner-run.
Chicano Park, Logan Avenue, and the galleries and kitchens along it.
One intersection, a single-screen cinema, and a handful of places people drive across town for.
The quiet side of Balboa Park. Old apartment buildings and restaurants that have been there for decades.
Coastal San Diego
7 areas, 817 independent places
Garnet Avenue and the boardwalk. Loud, sunburnt, open late.
Point Loma
198Fish off the boats at the landing, and the long quiet run out to the lighthouse.
La Jolla
186The cove, the cliffs, and Girard Avenue behind them.
Newport Avenue, the pier, and a Wednesday farmers market that shuts the street.
Coronado
56
North County inland
9 areas, 793 independent places
Escondido
205San Marcos
137Poway
129Vista
94
South Bay
5 areas, 497 independent places
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