San Diego Restaurants

After landing on a popular restaurant rankings list for several consecutive years – including a San Diego food truck ranked No. 1 last year – not a single San Diego restaurant made the cut on Yelp’s “Top 100 Places to Eat in 2021.”

San Diego family-owned restaurant Rusticucina in the North Park area has had to pivot and adapt in every way after it opened just weeks before the coronavirus pandemic changed our lives.

It’s the first weekend restaurants are offering in-person dining since the stay-at-home-order was lifted. But just as they were given the green-light, a series of storms dampened their reopening. Local business owners told NBC 7 they’re cautiously optimistic about opening their doors for good. “When we got the news this time, we were a little hesitant. We’ve been doing...

As San Diego County enters a new mandated stay-at-home order, one of the most noticeable restrictions will be dining.

The roller coaster ride of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t over just yet for San Diego’s restaurant scene. As California tightens restrictions on businesses once again due to rising COVID-19 cases across counties, what does this round of restrictions mean for San Diego County’s restaurants?

Although many of San Diego’s restaurants and bars have found ways to adapt to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemics, others simply can’t survive. These are some of the local gems forced to permanently shutter due to the crisis.

With pickup instead of dine-in, crowd sizes capped to meet current health restrictions, and a few more days to make it happen, San Diego’s food-centric Little Italy community is reimagining its annual foodie event for the COVID era.

COVID-19 has hobbled San Diego restaurants and forced restaurant owners to change the way they do business.  Faced with what seems to be ever-changing guidelines, owners are now having to play catch up in hopes of keeping their doors open.  In March, San Diego County Health Inspectors, tasked with stopping the spread of the deadly virus, began including COVID-19...

NBC 7 Investigates reporter Mari Payton explains whether COVID-19 safety regulations are considered in restaurant safety ratings.

Restrictions and guidelines are changing all the time for restaurants, it’s hard for local restaurant owners to keep up. Imagine having to keep track of all the protocols for not one, but seven restaurants to help keep everyone safe. Pho Ca Dao, Vietnamese Kitchen has seven locations across San Diego County. A new location in Escondido was 80% complete but…

NBC 7’s Ashley Matthews shares how one local restaurant chain is adapting to pandemic restrictions.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s Office is developing a plan that would allow restaurants to utilize more open space for dining in order to keep patrons six feet apart and businesses in operation.

Members of San Diego’s restaurant industry showed off procedures Monday that local eateries are proposing to keep customers and employees safe once dine-in service is allowed to resume under the state’s “stay at home” order.

Members of San Diego’s restaurant industry — including Phil Pace of Phil’s BBQ — showed off procedures Monday that local eateries are proposing to keep customers and employees safe once dine-in service is allowed to resume under the state’s “stay at home” order, reports NBC 7’s Bridget Naso.

Barriers. New Rules. Face Masks. The coronavirus pandemic continues to hit San Diego’s food scene as local restaurants map out ways to adapt to the “new normal.” Eater San Diego shares the latest top stories of these times of COVID-19 from our food and drink scene.