The Places · United States
San Diego
Made By profiles 10 places in San Diego, spanning bar, authentic italian osteria, californian-iberian seafood — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Modern California Fusion Fine Dining
Addison
San Diego, United States
Addison is San Diego’s high-form tasting-menu address for California gastronomy, framed through French technique, regional produce, and a resort setting that keeps the room insulated from the city’s casual dining tempo. William Bradley’s kitchen carries heavy external validation, including La Liste 95 points for 2026, Les Grandes Tables du Monde membership, and an Opinionated About Dining North America ranking.
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02.Modern Mediterranean
Callie
San Diego, United States
Callie brings Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognized Mediterranean-Californian cooking to San Diego's East Village, with a wine program spanning 3,500 bottles across France, Italy, and California. Chef Travis Swikard frames the menu around what the region calls Cuisine du Soleil: produce and seafood aligned to Southern California's growing seasons, translated through the cooking logic of the Mediterranean basin.
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03.Contemporary American Fusion
Juniper & Ivy
San Diego, United States
On Kettner Boulevard in Little Italy, Juniper & Ivy has built one of San Diego's more consistently recognized New American programs, holding a Michelin Plate and ranking inside Opinionated About Dining's North America list for three consecutive years through 2025. The kitchen under Chef Anthony Wells works within a California-forward idiom, with a room whose industrial-meets-warm aesthetic frames the cooking as clearly as the plate does.
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04.Traditional Edomae-Style Omakase
Sushi Tadokoro
San Diego, United States
Sushi Tadokoro on San Diego Avenue has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition and a Michelin Plate across 2023, 2024, and 2025, placing it among the most consistently decorated Japanese counters in Southern California. Operating under chefs Takeaki Tadokoro and Tatsuro Tsuchiya, it occupies the mid-to-upper price tier of San Diego's sushi scene, where traditional Japanese technique meets a city still building its omakase identity.
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05.Seasonal Coastal Seafood
The Fishery
San Diego, United States
Among San Diego's mid-price seafood options, The Fishery in Pacific Beach has earned back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, a marker that separates it from the neighbourhood's casual fish-taco circuit. Situated on Cass Street, it draws a 4.6 rating across more than 1,100 Google reviews, pointing to consistent execution under Chef Mike Reidy at a price point that remains accessible within the city's seafood tier.
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06.Californian-Iberian Seafood
Mabel’s Gone Fishing
San Diego, United States
Mabel's Gone Fishing brings a Spanish-Californian seafood sensibility to North Park, earning back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025 alongside an Esquire Best New Restaurants ranking. Chef Tanner Stanich works within a mid-price bracket that San Diego's coastal-sourcing scene has increasingly made its own, producing a room where the fishing tradition feels current rather than nostalgic.
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07.Authentic Italian Osteria
Ciccia Osteria
San Diego, United States
Ciccia Osteria holds back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) and a 4.7 Google rating from over 750 diners, placing it among San Diego's most consistent Italian tables at the $$ price point. Located in the Barrio Logan neighbourhood at 2233 Logan Ave, it delivers the kind of honest, ingredient-led Italian cooking that Michelin's Bib designation was created to identify: serious food at accessible prices.
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08.Bar
Raised by Wolves
San Diego, United States
Raised by Wolves holds a spot among North America's most recognized cocktail programs, ranked #19 on World's 50 Best North America's Best Bars in 2022 and #442 in the global Top 500 Bars 2025 list. Set inside UTC's Westfield mall in University City, the bar operates in a format that deliberately contradicts its retail surroundings, running a technically serious drinks program that has drawn sustained critical attention.
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09.Bar
False Idol
San Diego, United States
False Idol is a tiki bar in San Diego's Little Italy neighbourhood, occupying a subterranean space beneath Craft & Commerce on West Beech Street. The format leans into rum-forward tropical cocktails and the immersive, low-light theatrics that define the more serious end of American tiki revival. It draws a crowd that treats the drink program as the destination, not the setting.
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10.Bar
Polite Provisions
San Diego, United States
Polite Provisions occupies a converted North Park pharmacy on 30th Street, operating as one of San Diego's most program-serious cocktail bars. The space channels early-twentieth-century apothecary aesthetics into an all-day drinking operation where the gap between a weekday afternoon session and a weekend evening service is more than cosmetic, it's structural. Daytime draws a neighbourhood crowd; evenings pull from across the city.
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