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Travel

Explore adventure guides and design a custom itinerary for the destination of your choice in and around the city.

Best Travel Guides, Cool Hotels and Interesting Events - Thrillist

California’s Joshua Tree National Park embodied many of our pandemic fantasies.

Your Guide to the Beautifully Bizarre Joshua Tree National Park

San Diego

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Sam Wells

Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

San Diego’s culinary scene has never been as flashy as Los Angeles’ or as hyped as New York City’s.

San Diego’s Best New Restaurants of 2019

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There’s a time and a place for Korean barbecue; the time is “always,” and the place is “everywhere.”

Where to Get the Best Korean BBQ in San Diego

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Drink

San Diego may be the craft beer capital of the country, but between the overly hyped (er, hopped) IPAs and the legions of beer snobs giving everyone at the bar major side-eye, it’s no wonder another craft beverage is quietly blowing up: sake.

The Best Places to Drink Sake, San Diego's Other Boozy Obsession

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Hotels book up immediately upon opening for the weekend.

Everything You Need to Survive San Diego Comic-Con

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Even with our seemingly slavish devotion to the elusive “beach body,” meat markets are gaining popularity all over America’s Finest City (and we don’t mean Pacific Beach on a Friday night).

San Diego's Best Butcher Shops for Ethically Raised Meat

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San Diego may very well be in danger of losing its title of "America’s Finest (Beer) City," thanks to some of the city's biggest breweries expanding to more fertile ground in Virginia, of all places.

Why Are So Many San Diego Breweries Moving to Virginia?

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CHARLES ECK

From the Mexican border to the Orange County line, San Diego is awash in craft brews like no other place in America.

25 San Diego Craft Brews Every Beer-Loving Visitor Should Know

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Even if they weren’t making some of the best beer known to humanity, the sheer number of craft breweries in San Diego would make it a must-visit city for beer lovers.

The 5 Best San Diego Brewery Crawls, Mapped

Wena Velasco

First there was the fluffy-meets-forbidding juxtaposition of Metal Cats.

Buying SD Beer and Listening to Heavy Metal Can Help a Good Cause

Will Garcia

Loving lagers is like a secret handshake among the American craft beer elite.

Celebrate National Lager Day With 10 of San Diego's Finest Craft Creations

Tajima

North Park continues its complete and total domination as a leading hot craft-and-culinary neighborhood in San Diego with the addition of Tajima's fifth San Diego location, now open at 3015 Adams Ave next to the new-ish Et Voila French Bistro.