La Jolla

The Cove sits right below the terrace, which is why people book George's in the first place.

The case out front is the menu. El Pescador is a working fish market on Pearl Street with a kitchen behind it, so you look at what came in this morning, ask whi…

Washed and natural single origins, seven blends, decaf, and rare small lots, each one labelled with country, process, variety, and what it should taste like.

A bakery that makes naturally fermented bread for a living has an enormous head start when it decides to make pizza, and Wayfarer's dough proves it: real struct…

The foreground here will not sit still. Reef and sandstone break the water into something different every few seconds, and the palm shelter on the sand has been the picture of this beach for decades.

This is the one you walk. The path starts beside the Cave Store and runs along the top of the sandstone, and the angle changes every minute or two — down into t…

You pay at the door of a shop on Coast Blvd, then walk down a tunnel somebody cut through the cliff by hand.

Guy Fleming is the loop to do here. It is short, it is well maintained, and it opens onto two overlooks where the bluff drops into open ocean and a canyon runs inland behind you.

Torrey Pines Gliderport offers the most weather-dependent yes in this guide.