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Restaurants

Everything from crusty coffee shops to stylish ethnic restaurants is in copious supply, with seafood at its best around Mission Beach and the Gas Lamp District, and the latter home to the greatest concentration of restaurants, aimed at both tourists and locals alike.

Anthony's Star of the Sea Room  Franco-California-style preparations of seafood, justly famed for its freshness and variety, served on a terrace on the waterfront.
Bella Luna  This romantic, moon-adorned restaurant serves up wonderful, familiar Italian dishes to a relaxed artsy crowd.
Café 222 Industrially decorated café serving some of the city's best breakfasts and lunches - mainly fresh twists on staples like sandwiches, burgers and salads at reasonable prices.

Attractions & Activities

Anza-Borrego Desert  Most of eastern San Diego County, taken up by the more than 600,000-acre, much of it a state park (free; $5 per vehicle).  Some of it can be covered by car, although four-wheel-drive vehicles are necessary for the more obscure - and most interesting - route.
San Diego Zoo  immediately north of the main museums, is one of the world's best.  Its wide selection of animals, many of them rare, are restrained in psychological cages," without bars.  Including the children's zoo, and includes a bus tour and a round-trip ride on the Skyfari overhead tramway.
Mission Bay and Sea World North of Ocean Beach, you come to  and San Diego's most popular tourist attraction.  Exhibits and events  range from "performances" by killer whales and dolphins to the eerie sight of the heads of hundreds of moray eels protruding from the hollow rocks of the "Forbidden Reef."  Sharks circle menacingly in the Shark House; the Penguin Exhibit is a mock Antarctica; the Wild Arctic exhibit simulates the North Pole with polar bears and walruses; and the Manatee Rescue provides a close-up glimpse of the white, bulbous freshwater herbivores.

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