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Every year, The New York Times publishes its list of 50 favorite restaurants in the U.S. For the 2026 edition, 16 of the paper's editors and writers ate their way through 538 restaurants across 38 states to narrow it down, according to FOX 5 San Diego. It isn't a numbered ranking. The writers visit anonymously, pay for their own meals, and pick places they think are especially worth experiencing right now, as SanDiegoVille points out. This year, San Diego County got exactly o

This week, a carton of California lemons is running $30 to $45 wholesale. A comparable carton from Mexico, Chile, or Argentina is running $16 to $28, according to the same USDA report, the same day. Same fruit, same grade, roughly double the price if it's grown here. That gap comes from two different pressures stacked on top of each other. San Diego's lemon supply has been shrinking for sixteen years running, for reasons that mostly have nothing to do with disease. Separately

Ever notice how a lot of menus start to blur together after a while? Same protein cuts, same produce, same specialty sauces showing up two miles apart under different names. Part of that comes down to one company most diners have never heard of. Sysco runs the back office of a huge chunk of American restaurants, and a deal currently sitting with regulators could hand it even more control over how San Diego kitchens stock their walk-ins. How big is Sysco, actually? By the numb