City Guide: San Diego, California
This month’s City Guide is brought to you by Sam Stanisz - Chef James’ life partner, Mabel Gray Sous Chef and the calligraphy artist behind Mabel’s controversially handwritten menu. Sam grows food in her home food forest for the restaurant and often accompanies Chef James on his international travels. We asked her to chime in on her favorite winter getaway, San Diego…
Almost every Spring for the past seven years, when I’m over the cold weather and gray skies, I hop on a Delta flight and head to San Diego for a few days. It reignites a fire within me that only the ocean waves outside my window and 75-degree sunny days can spark.
More specifically, I head to a laid back surf town called Ocean Beach. Only a 10-minute drive from the San Diego airport and a 15 min drive to downtown San Diego.
San Diego is less like one single city and more like a collection of very different coastal towns, urban districts, historic enclaves, and suburban communities stitched together by beaches, canyons, and freeways. Each neighborhood has a noticeably different personality.
