Miramar
Warehouse blocks with taprooms, a still house, and a very big grocery.
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8 in total
Neighborhood Guides9 Places Worth Your Time in Miramar9
Bars & NightlifeThe 10 Best Beer Gardens in San Diego10
Bars & Nightlife10 Breweries Actually Worth the Hype10
Bars & NightlifeThe 8 Best Distilleries in San Diego8
MarketsThe 11 Best International Markets in San Diego, Ranked11
Things to DoThe 9 Best Spas in San Diego9
Every list that covers Miramar
Updated as places change- 9 rankedNeighborhood Guides9 Places Worth Your Time in MiramarUpdated Aug 2
- 10 rankedBars & NightlifeThe 10 Best Beer Gardens in San DiegoUpdated Aug 2
- 10 rankedBars & Nightlife10 Breweries Actually Worth the HypeUpdated Jul 27
- 8 rankedBars & NightlifeThe 8 Best Distilleries in San DiegoUpdated Aug 2
- 11 rankedMarketsThe 11 Best International Markets in San Diego, RankedUpdated Aug 2
- 9 rankedThings to DoThe 9 Best Spas in San DiegoUpdated Aug 2
10 rankedCoffeeThe 10 Best Coffee Roasters in San Diego, RankedUpdated Jul 27
12 rankedCoffeeThe 12 Best Coffee Shops in San Diego, RankedUpdated Jul 24
The neighborhood itself
8 verified places · 6 eat & drink and 2 things-to-do listsMiramar is San Diego’s workshop floor: a grid of production buildings off Miramar Road where the good stuff happens behind a roll-up door with a suite number on it. You drive here on purpose, park in a lot, and walk twenty feet.
Kenamar Drive and Distribution Avenue, out west, hold the big rooms — a still house pouring what it makes in the same building, a taproom its owners built by hand around a moss wall. The two-story tasting room is further east, on AleSmith Court off Miramar Road. Miralani, up north, runs smaller: a roaster pulling espresso at the front of the unit it roasts in, and neighbors doing wine, ginger beer and salsa behind ten-foot roll-up doors. Miramar Road runs the length of the district, angling northeast, and it is the errand strip. The grocery on it is the reason plenty of people drive across the county.
Start at 6:30 on a weekday with coffee on Miralani if you want a full day out of this. Come at noon and it is a taproom afternoon, which is the version most people do. Late September the base at the eastern end opens its gates and the sky fills up for a weekend.
Bring a trunk you do not mind filling.
If you only do 6 things
1AleSmith Brewingdrink2Cutwater Spiritsdistillery3Miramar Cash & Carryshop4Jaunt Coffee Roastersmorning5White Labs Brewing Co.beer6Forest House SPAunwindKnow before you go
Parking: free lots at every stop — the whole district is built around them
Driving: stops sit a few minutes apart by car; bring a designated driver for the taprooms
Addresses: look for unit and suite numbers on roll-up doors, not street frontage
Don’t miss: America’s Air Show opens the base for one weekend in late September; everyone 18 and over needs a government ID at the gate
Where they are — 8 verified places
The index
Ranked places pulled from all 8 listsMiramar Cash & Carry is the stop that turns a neighborhood outing into a better-stocked kitchen.
Jaunt is how you start Miramar before the brewery doors even think about opening.
AleSmith makes Miramar feel like the place your entire group was trying to find.
Cutwater turns a tasting stop into something you can actually build an afternoon around.
Duck Foot gives the beer-curious friend a very specific reason to come: every beer is brewed gluten-reduced.
Pure Project makes group planning feel almost suspiciously easy.
White Labs was created in 2012 to show how yeast fermentation changes beer, which gives this tasting room a beautifully nerdy reason to exist.
Forest House is the reset button hiding on Miramar Road.