{"id":252551,"date":"2026-04-05T05:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252551\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:40:28","slug":"the-best-new-restaurants-in-and-around-san-diego-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252551\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best New Restaurants in and Around San Diego, April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Often, readers and friends of Eater have one burning question: \u201cWhere should I eat right now?\u201d The heatmap exists to answer that question \u2014 offering a prismatic view of what is new and notable in San Diego. While the restaurant and bar industry has faced tremendous challenges, <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/15955860\/san-diego-dining-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Diego\u2019s restaurants continue to persevere;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Diego\u2019s restaurants continue to persevere&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Diego\u2019s restaurants continue to persevere<\/a>, with new and exciting openings springing up all the time. The restaurants featured on this list are typically less than six months old and give a sense of what\u2019s hot and happening around town. For restaurants that have established themselves as one of the city\u2019s best, check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/maps\/38-best-restaurants-san-diego-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eater San Diego\u2019s Essential 38;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Eater San Diego\u2019s Essential 38&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Eater San Diego\u2019s Essential 38<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New this update: La Jollita, Bacari, Dark Horse Japanese Nikkei Cuisine, Playa Kitchen, and Verise join the list, while Relic Bakery, Love Letters Pizza, Potato Powder Love Noodle, and Lucien leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For all the latest San Diego dining intel, <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/2017\/3\/30\/15112458\/eater-san-diego-restaurant-newsletter?utm_campaign=eater.social&amp;utm_content=eater&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=san-diego-map\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:subscribe to Eater San Diego\u2019s newsletter.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;subscribe to Eater San Diego\u2019s newsletter.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">subscribe to Eater San Diego\u2019s newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Often, readers and friends of Eater have one burning question: \u201cWhere should I eat right now?\u201d The heatmap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[112127,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-252551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-eater","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}