{"id":846583,"date":"2026-06-05T17:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/846583\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:10:25","slug":"the-best-restaurants-in-san-diego-2026-critics-readers-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/846583\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Restaurants in San Diego 2026: Critics &#038; Readers&#8217; Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some keep lists of favorite books, of quotes, of enemies whose time shall come. At SDM we keep vast, nuanced, hotly debated lists of the best <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegomagazine.com\/category\/food-drink\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food and drink<\/a> in the city. Menus are our smut novels. From Michelin stars to mom and pops, our list constantly evolves over hundreds of new bites tried every year. Here\u2019s the 2026 list from food critic Troy Johnson and 129,000-plus votes from our readers, who really, really know their food.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for the full list of Best Restaurant winners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some keep lists of favorite books, of quotes, of enemies whose time shall come. At SDM we keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":846584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,187616,346125,116804,1582,276,8364,26150,10084,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-846583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-best-bars","tag-best-chef","tag-best-restaurants","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-food-drink","tag-food-news","tag-openings","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116698614830199603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}