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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

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

If you run a food or beverage business in San Diego the rules governing the sidewalk in front of you just changed. Or more precisely: they stopped being enforced, and nobody can tell you for how long. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it actually means for operators on both sides of the storefront glass. What happened In early July, the City of San Diego confirmed what vendors and merchants had been observing for months: enforcement of the city's sidewalk vendin