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Eater
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
Hot San Diego Restaurant Openings You May Have Missed, June 2025
Skip to main content Current eater city: San Diego Each month brings a new slate of exciting new restaurants to San Diego, whether it's a splashy new restaurant helmed by an iconic chef, a low-key neighborhood spot, or a pop-up settling into a permanent location. Consider this monthly rundown a go-to guide for the newest and boldest debuts across San Diego. Oceanside — Located just two blocks from the Oceanside Pier, Odie's Pizza is a new sourdough pizza place that features chewy, crispy dough fermented for 48 hours with 25-year-old starter dough that founder Odie O'Connor acquired from acclaimed pizzeria Gracie's Apizza in Portland, Oregon, where he previously worked. More than a decade ago, Encinitas native Odie O'Connor started Boxcar Pizza, a Detroit-style vegan pizza pop-up in Portland, before opening his own standalone restaurant in the city. O'Connor said he missed the beaches in Southern California and moved back, feeding his sourdough starter on the way back to the area. Using that sourdough starter and organic flour from the Pacific Northwest, Odie opened his own pizza joint, naming his pies after song titles, such as Dude Ranch, a barbecue shredded chicken pizza with ranch and cilantro, and Benny and the Jets, an EVOO base with whipped burrata and hot honey. All pies can be made vegan and gluten-free. O'Connor tells Eater that he plans to open more locations, possibly in Vista or Escondido, in a year. 121 North Cleveland Street, Oceanside, CA 92054. University Heights— Adding to the widening array of vegan restaurants, Vulture has opened its doors, offering a fine-dining vegan experience. Housed inside the recently opened vegan diner, Dreamboat, by the same team, diners at Vulture can opt for a Steak Diane, made with wood-grilled lion's mane mushroom steak, and the tableside Caesar salad dressed in chickpea-based cultured Parmigiana. The well-conceived drinks menu includes a gimlet made with Japanese gin and a house martini that comes in a miniature Classic form or with The Works, a hefty pour accompanied by pickled accouterments, fried potato pave, and truffle caviar. 4608 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92116. Mission Beach — A breezy new resort restaurant emanates Italian charm, drawing visitors and locals in from far and wide for its excellent Neapolitan cuisine. Anchoring the Bahia Resort Hotel in Mission Bay, Bianchi Pizza and Pasta is a new Italian restaurant led by chef Ignazio Tagliavia, who previously worked as an instructor at Pizza News School in Bartletta, Italy, and as the chef at Elvira in Ocean Beach. The menu focuses on wood-fired pizza, pasta, and charcuterie. With a range of Italian beers on tap along with Aperol and Campari spritzes, the family-friendly restaurant includes a cozy indoor space, a 12-seat elegant bar, and a miniature Italian piazza for outdoor dining. Bahia Resort Hotel, 998 West Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, CA 92109. Carmel Valley— The first San Diego outpost for Jan's Health Bar opened in the One Paseo shopping plaza, expanding from Orange County, where the first Jan's was founded in Huntington Beach in 1972. The fast-casual set-up includes an open kitchen and a few indoor tables in a 1,500-square-foot space. Here, diners can have salads, smoothies, and sandwiches, including the popular tuna salad sandwich with sprouts, vegan bacon bites, and secret seasoning. (Add the avocado for extra creaminess.) Jan's trademark protein powder goes into many of their smoothies, such as the peanut butter banana date smoothie blended with almond milk. Owner Poppy Holguin tells Eater she would like to open additional locations in North County in the future. 3722 Paseo Place, Suite 1440, San Diego, CA 92130. San Marcos— A Lo Fresco recently opened in North City, adjacent to the Cal State San Marcos campus, as an all-day fast-casual cafe with gluten-free bowls, wraps, toasts made with plant-based sourdough, and smoothies. All drinks on the menu are plant-based and gluten-free with no added sugars. Owners Olga Saldivar and Emillio Herrera also run the popular Phatties Vegan Mexican Restaurant in Escondido. Find items like the Miami Cuban bowl, Greek bowl, surf-and-turf wrap with guajillo shrimp and carne asada, and the Santorini blue smoothie in this bright, cheery space punched up by colorful artwork. 205 North City Drive, Suite 5, San Marcos, CA 92078. Carmel Valley— Hopping into the soup dumpling craze that's proliferated around San Diego, Super Dumpling Cafe opened its doors in Piazza Carmel, replacing the former Villa Capri Italian restaurant. The new dumpling spot comes from the family behind Sunny Noodle House in Clairemont Mesa, who decided to head to North County to open a Chinese restaurant that uses other Asian diasporic influences. After undergoing a major renovation, the light-filled casual dim sum restaurant now slings xiao long bao (soup dumplings), pot stickers, grilled pork buns, and noodle dishes. The spot's colorful soup dumping set features eight flavors, such as chicken and corn, black truffle, and Korean barbecue beef. 3870 Valley Centre Drive, Suite 301, San Diego, CA 92130. Sorrento Mesa— Perched on the second floor in the middle of Sorrento Valley's budding tech campus, the Treehouse Collective is an expansive food hall that invites diners in for a choose-your-own-adventure experience with breakfast and lunchtime fare, such as fried chicken sandwiches, smash burgers, poke bowls, and Cali Cobb salads. Centrally located near the main entrance for a grab-and-go caffeinated drink, the Can-Do coffee bar offers specialty beverages made with coffee beans from Cafe Moto in Barrio Logan. Rotating pastries from Patisserie Melanie in North Park are delivered daily. Open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the dining space has sky-high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling wrap-around windows, and ample indoor seating. 9945 Pacific Heights Boulevard, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121. Solana Beach— On Highway 101, a team of seasoned restaurateurs has opened a new upscale restaurant called Lana. Owners Travis LeGrand and Mark Whedon have partnered on restaurants such as Cucina Urbana, Herringbone, and the Marine Room. Executive chef Chris Ruhl (Cellar Hand, Juniper and Ivy) will lead the kitchen in the 5,000-square-foot space, which features a central bar and outdoor dining area. Working closely with local purveyors, the kitchen team has curated a menu that includes California seabass ceviche, Wagyu beef burgers, and cast-iron skillet baked meatballs. 437 South Highway 101, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Little Italy— A new Argentinian asado steakhouse, Piedra Santa, has landed in San Diego. The 3,000-square-foot restaurant with an expansive outdoor dining patio showcases dry-aged steaks, including tomahawk, bone-in ribeye, American and Japanese wagyu, and churrasco de asado de tira. Recently, the downtown restaurant introduced happy hour specials from Sunday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., that features wagyu sliders, empanada trios, and cocktails like soldado criollo with pecan-infused bourbon. 555 W. Ash St, San Diego, California 92101. See More: San Diego Restaurant Openings
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
"They Basically Disappeared In The Late '90s": 24 Menu Items That Were "All The Rage" Way Back When, But Are Nonexistent Today
Nothing makes me more nostalgic than recalling the days of "fancy" dinners at the local chop house in my town, fully equipped with a smoking section and salad bar. So, I was very intrigued when redditor u/igotplans2 asked folks of the r/AskOldPeople community to share the dishes that were once popular in restaurants but then disappeared. Here are some of the "trendy" menu items that older generations recalled from way back when. 1."Nobody serves beef stroganoff anymore." —u/mynameisranger1 2."Blackened everything. It seemed like chefs were working overtime to figure out what they could make in a Cajun blackened version." —u/igotplans2 "I credit the original Cajun gourmet, Justin Wilson, for this. In the late '80s/early '90s, when more and more people were getting cable TV, he had a few different shows that reached coast to coast. He was maybe not iconic, but he was pretty popular and inspired people to have a taste of the culture and cuisine he fondly promoted." —u/Ok_Athlete_1092 3."Potato skins were pretty big in the '80s." —u/bg370 "I would order loaded potato skins as my meal until they basically disappeared in the late '90s." —u/Nagarkot1 4."I can't think of a specific dish, but there was a period in the '90s when pesto was EVERYWHERE, and so were roasted red peppers." —u/Professor-genXer "Sun-dried tomatoes were freaking EVERYWHERE for a while there." —u/GraceStrangerThanYou 5."Quiche in the late '70s and the '80s. Every fern bar restaurant like TGI Fridays featured quiches, and people were cooking quiches. The popularity of quiche even inspired the title of the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche. That book inspired the humorous meme of 'Real Men Don't (fill in the blank).'" —u/MarshmallowSoul 6."Steak Diane. Particularly, made the correct old-school way: flambéed tableside." —u/MooPig48 "I used to flambé table side in the late '70s/early '80s. Steak Diane was my favorite. Then it just sorta dropped off menus everywhere." —u/MetalPlaygrounds 7."Salad bars. In the '80s, every restaurant had one, even some fast-food burger places like Wendy's." —u/MarshmallowSoul "Ah, the Wendy's solarium. The epitome of fine dining in the '80s." —u/80sWereAMagicalTime 8."Beef Wellington, at pricier restaurants. It's hard to find now, but not too hard to make at home for the right occasion." —u/newleaf9110 9."Fondue." —u/sretep66 "There was a whole-ass fondue restaurant in downtown Royal Oak, Michigan, in the '90s. Cheese for the appetizer, then meat and/or shrimp in oil for the main, and chocolate for the dessert. Tasty, but it took hours." —u/TeacherPatti 10."Orange Roughy. It turned out that the fish were incredibly old — up to 200 years old — and they were almost fished to extinction." —u/Gl3g 11."Bananas Foster and the whole tableside performance flambé craze from the '70s. Maybe some places still offer that? I haven't seen it on a menu in forever." —u/Careless_Ocelot_4485 12."Pineapple upside down cake." —u/Ohm1962 "I made them all the time as a kid in the '70s and a young adult in the '80s. I haven't had one in years!" —u/groomer7759 13."German chocolate cake used to be everywhere, and I haven't seen it in decades." —u/LBFilmFan 14."Crêpes as an entree was popular in the '70s, filled with chicken or crabmeat in a sauce." —u/Uvabird "The first restaurant I remember going to as a kid with exotic-looking houseplants everywhere was a '70s creperie. I didn't see another place that did crepes primarily for over 40 years." —u/Quaranj 15."Trout amandine. I miss it. I'm a terrible cook, so I can't make it myself." —u/sillyconfused "I grew up in Louisiana, and we had this everywhere! I always order it now when I see it on a menu." —u/poissonerie 16."Baked Alaska." —u/SirWarm6963 17."The Monte Cristo: a turkey, cheese, and raspberry jam sandwich fried up like French toast with powdered sugar on top — '80s food deliciousness." —u/Fizzywaterjones "I remember these as a kid in the '70s. I think it was Denny's or Howard Johnson's that had them. They were so popular at the time. We ate them without a care in the world about how unhealthy they were." —u/Granny_knows_best 18."French onion soup with a big piece of toast and melted cheese on top in the '70s." —u/mbw70 19."I will submit Swedish meatballs, which I actually just got done making for dinner. I don't know if it died out, but I never see it on the menu anywhere." —u/dimestoredavinci "Only at Ikea." —u/beaujolais98 20."Please travel back in time with me to the '60s, and let's talk about baked potato 'fixings' being brought to your table in that thing with a connected metal bowl. Sour cream? Coming up! And it was spun around that bowl so the server could spoon it into your potato. Cheese, bacon bits, and salad dressings were served the same way, including the rarely-seen (but then popular) Thousand Island and Roquefort dressings." —u/ronmimid 21."Chocolate mousse in a stem goblet. It was my favorite thing about eating out as a kid in the '80s. Then at some point, it was all crappy frozen chocolate cake." —u/Organic_Bookkeeper32 22."Around 1980, it seemed like every restaurant had fried zucchini and fried mozzarella sticks as appetizers." —u/Intelligent-Rip-2270 23."Liver and onions." —u/300-02_F41-1 "I was a cook in the late '70s, and Thursday had liver and onion specials. Man, I still remember having to cook that nasty stuff. The only people who ordered it were old people." —u/nbfs-chili 24."'A diet plate that had a hamburger patty, a lump of cottage cheese, and canned peaches." —u/splattermatters "This, but with a pineapple ring instead of the peaches, is like a nostalgic meal that reminds me of my grandmother. It was years before I realized she was always on a diet." —u/Valuable-Ordinary-54 Is there a menu item you recall being wildly popular that basically vanished? Let us know in the comments, or fill out this anonymous form. Note: Some responses may have been edited for length and/or clarity.
Buzz Feed
29-03-2025
- General
- Buzz Feed
"They Basically Disappeared In The Late '90s": 24 Menu Items That Were "All The Rage" Way Back When, But Are Nonexistent Today
Nothing makes me more nostalgic than recalling the days of "fancy" dinners at the local chop house in my town, fully equipped with a smoking section and salad bar. So, I was very intrigued when redditor u/igotplans2 asked folks of the r/AskOldPeople community to share the dishes that were once popular in restaurants but then disappeared. Here are some of the "trendy" menu items that older generations recalled from way back when. 1. "Nobody serves beef stroganoff anymore." 2. "Blackened everything. It seemed like chefs were working overtime to figure out what they could make in a Cajun blackened version." — u/igotplans2 "I credit the original Cajun gourmet, Justin Wilson, for this. In the late '80s/early '90s, when more and more people were getting cable TV, he had a few different shows that reached coast to coast. He was maybe not iconic, but he was pretty popular and inspired people to have a taste of the culture and cuisine he fondly promoted." — u/Ok_Athlete_1092 3. "Potato skins were pretty big in the '80s." u/hippy2zippy / Via — u/bg370 "I would order loaded potato skins as my meal until they basically disappeared in the late '90s." — u/Nagarkot1 4. "I can't think of a specific dish, but there was a period in the '90s when pesto was EVERYWHERE, and so were roasted red peppers." — u/Professor-genXer "Sun-dried tomatoes were freaking EVERYWHERE for a while there." — u/GraceStrangerThanYou 5. "Quiche in the late '70s and the '80s. Every fern bar restaurant like TGI Fridays featured quiches, and people were cooking quiches. The popularity of quiche even inspired the title of the book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche. That book inspired the humorous meme of 'Real Men Don't (fill in the blank).'" u/peepee_dancer / Via 6. "Steak Diane. Particularly, made the correct old-school way: flambéed tableside." — u/MooPig48 "I used to flambé table side in the late '70s/early '80s. Steak Diane was my favorite. Then it just sorta dropped off menus everywhere." — u/MetalPlaygrounds 7. "Salad bars. In the '80s, every restaurant had one, even some fast-food burger places like Wendy's." — u/MarshmallowSoul "Ah, the Wendy's solarium. The epitome of fine dining in the '80s." — u/80sWereAMagicalTime 8. "Beef Wellington, at pricier restaurants. It's hard to find now, but not too hard to make at home for the right occasion." — u/newleaf9110 9. "Fondue." u/No_Lack_7636 / Via — u/sretep66 "There was a whole-ass fondue restaurant in downtown Royal Oak, Michigan, in the '90s. Cheese for the appetizer, then meat and/or shrimp in oil for the main, and chocolate for the dessert. Tasty, but it took hours." — u/TeacherPatti 11. "Bananas Foster and the whole tableside performance flambé craze from the '70s. Maybe some places still offer that? I haven't seen it on a menu in forever." 13. "German chocolate cake used to be everywhere, and I haven't seen it in decades." u/imedrgrs678 / Via 14. "Crêpes as an entree was popular in the '70s, filled with chicken or crabmeat in a sauce." — u/Uvabird "The first restaurant I remember going to as a kid with exotic-looking houseplants everywhere was a '70s creperie. I didn't see another place that did crepes primarily for over 40 years." — u/Quaranj 15. "Trout amandine. I miss it. I'm a terrible cook, so I can't make it myself." u/stoatymcstoatface / Via — u/sillyconfused "I grew up in Louisiana, and we had this everywhere! I always order it now when I see it on a menu." — u/poissonerie 17. "The Monte Cristo: a turkey, cheese, and raspberry jam sandwich fried up like French toast with powdered sugar on top — '80s food deliciousness." u/unclecactus / Via 19. "I will submit Swedish meatballs, which I actually just got done making for dinner. I don't know if it died out, but I never see it on the menu anywhere." u/sverremagnus / Via — "Only at Ikea." — u/beaujolais98 20. "Please travel back in time with me to the '60s, and let's talk about baked potato 'fixings' being brought to your table in that thing with a connected metal bowl. Sour cream? Coming up! And it was spun around that bowl so the server could spoon it into your potato. Cheese, bacon bits, and salad dressings were served the same way, including the rarely-seen (but then popular) Thousand Island and Roquefort dressings." — u/ronmimid 21. "Chocolate mousse in a stem goblet. It was my favorite thing about eating out as a kid in the '80s. Then at some point, it was all crappy frozen chocolate cake." 22. "Around 1980, it seemed like every restaurant had fried zucchini and fried mozzarella sticks as appetizers." — u/Intelligent-Rip-2270 23. "Liver and onions." u/jibjeb86 / Via — u/300-02_F41-1 "I was a cook in the late '70s, and Thursday had liver and onion specials. Man, I still remember having to cook that nasty stuff. The only people who ordered it were old people." — u/nbfs-chili 24. "'A diet plate that had a hamburger patty, a lump of cottage cheese, and canned peaches." — u/splattermatters "This, but with a pineapple ring instead of the peaches, is like a nostalgic meal that reminds me of my grandmother. It was years before I realized she was always on a diet."
