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Local Picks
Veza Studio: The Private Pilates Studio Bringing Intentional Movement to Solana Beach
Veza Studio is a private and duet Pilates studio on the 101 in Solana Beach — one-on-one instruction, classical technique, and an hour built around you.
Rosati's Pizza San Diego: What to Order and the Best Nights to Go
Rosati's Pizza on Mission Gorge Road pours the only Old Style beer in California, serves real Chicago deep dish, and hands out free beer whenever the Bears win.
Hodad's Closes Every September 30 for Bossman, and Has Been Grilling Since 1969
Byron and Virginia Hardin started it in 1969. Their grandchildren run it now. And every September 30 they close the whole place for Bossman.
Maranello: Tableside Pasta and a Ferrari Engine on the Wall in Little Italy
Northern Italian cooking from three Italian chefs on Kettner Boulevard — where the pasta gets finished at your table in a wheel of cheese and the dishes are named after Ferraris.
Selva Coffee House: Specialty Coffee Inside a Jungle-Like Nursery
A local's guide to Selva Coffee House — creative matcha and coffee inside a jungle-like plant nursery, in Midway and Del Mar.
Little Oaks Bakehouse: Gourmet Cookies in Encinitas
Little Oaks Bakehouse makes small-batch gourmet cookies in Leucadia, Encinitas. Order the signature Biscoff by DM on Instagram — new customers get $5 off.
Every Sandwich at Bear Buns Starts With a B, and Your Dog Gets a $1 Pup Cup
The Basic, the Bennie, the Bella, the Birdie, the Betsy. Breakfast sandwiches from $7.50, a burrata-and-prosciutto focaccia for $9.50, and meatballs for the dog.
GEM Coffee in Talmadge Charges $3.99 for Espresso and Organised Eight Neighborhood Clean-Ups
Espresso and americano both $3.99. Pour over and cold brew both $4.99. A neighborhood coffee shop on Euclid that has handed out free drinks to clean-up volunteers eight times.
COCOBOMB's Entire Ice Cream Program Is Vegan, and It's Open Until 11 on Convoy
All the ice cream is vegan and gluten-free, because it's built on coconut rather than dairy. Plus Lot Chong, Bua Loy and Ruam Mit — Thai desserts you can't get many places here.
The Compound Lifting Club Has an Altitude Room, a Hyrox Course and a $75 Week to Try It All
An altitude training room, cryotherapy, Normatec boots and an outdoor Hyrox course — in Solana Beach and on Morena Blvd. A week's full access is $75.
EscoGelato Has Made 124 Flavors and Puts Out 18 a Day — You Have to Go Look
The case holds fourteen to eighteen flavors and they change every day. The full roster runs past a hundred and twenty. There's no way to know what's in there but to go.
Coffee Wave Is the Rare Poway Café That Tells You Where the Outlets Are
"Wi-Fi, outlets, soft music, and a calm corner for laptop days." A Poway café that says the quiet part out loud — plus a tiramisu latte and something called Blue Ocean matcha.
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