The 38 Essential Restaurants in San Diego

"There is no shortage of sushi bars in San Diego, from the everyday to the sublime, but Sushi Ichifuji has risen to the top of the pack while remaining an accessible and attainable reservation. The 10-seat sushi counter, manned by two skilled itamae with decades of experience between them at revered local Japanese restaurants like Soichi Sushi, Sushi Tadokoro, and Taka Sushi, is a showcase for a nigiri-focused omakase menu and a more elaborate eight-course menu that changes with the seasons but always includes impeccable fish, creative appetizers, and homemade desserts like hojicha panna cotta, and yuzu cream sorbet." - Candice Woo, Helen I. Hwang