Uncover new sights, attend thrilling occasions, dine at famend eating places and keep at exquisitely reimagined accommodations this summer time in San Diego.
Main Sights
SeaWorld San Diego
SeaWorld San Diego’s Arctic Rescue is a family-friendly, multi-launch journey that invitations visitors to hop on a snowmobile and zip alongside at as much as 40 mph on a cold journey, as they race by way of the unpredictable Arctic local weather to assist endangered animals. The journey would be the longest and quickest straddle coaster on the West Coast.
LEGOLAND California
LEGOLAND® California Resort’s all-new Miniland San Diego represents the world’s first LEGO model of San Diego, and options well-known landmarks, sights and themes that make up town’s DNA. LEGOLAND’S grasp mannequin builders drew inspiration from such signature locations because the Gaslamp Quarter, Coronado, Del Mar, Petco Park and San Diego’s unimaginable shoreline. The brand new part joins New York, Washington D.C., Las Vegas and San Francisco in Miniland USA on the coronary heart of the park.
Belmont Park
Belmont Park has massive plans in anticipation of its one centesimal anniversary in 2025. The park is creating a brand new journey and interactive climbing tower, Solar Child Tower, which is able to supply thrill-seekers stunning views of the ocean and Mission Seashore boardwalk; it’s opening in early summer time. Belmont Park additionally not too long ago changed its Management Freak journey with a brand new however related journey known as Flip Out, and expanded its Lazerblast Arcade, including 14 new video games and extra prizes.
Sesame Place
As if all of the Enjoyable Fest occasions at this family-minded attraction weren’t sufficient, Sesame Place has one other particular deal with in retailer for you this summer time: The grand opening of The Rely’s Splash Citadel, an interactive water-play zone on Sesame Island that boasts a whopping 111 play components. Among the many options are three tipping buckets that dump greater than 1,300 gallons of water, plus 4 water slides and an array of soakers, stream pipes, hose and spray jets, shooters, curtains, tipping troughs, spinning and sliding buckets and a complete lot extra.
Main Occasions
San Diego Beer Weekend
When: Jun. 9/11, 2023
San Diego is named The Capital of Craft™, and Brewers Guild member breweries all through the county will host occasions and serve their beer in commemorative pint glasses. San Diego Beer Weekend, created in 2022 to rejoice the Brewers Guild’s twenty fifth anniversary, is the preamble to the nationally identified San Diego Beer Week, whose fifteenth annual version will happen in November.
World Lacrosse Males’s Championship
When: Jun. 21 to Jul. 1, 2023
Some 30 nations converge on San Diego subsequent yr for the World Lacrosse Males’s Championship in pursuit of the gold medal and the title of world’s finest. Be sure to’re at Snapdragon Stadium to see the U.S. defend its title.
Fourth of July Fireworks
When: Jul. 4, 2023
The Port of San Diego Large Bay Growth July 4th Fireworks Present is again this yr, promising one other spectacular show over San Diego Bay. Fireworks can be discharged concurrently from barges positioned strategically across the bay off Shelter Island, Harbor Island, Embarcadero North, the Marina District and Coronado Ferry Touchdown. The impeccably choreographed show will final roughly 18 minutes, beginning at 9 p.m.
2023 Concacaf Gold Cup Semifinal
When: Jul. 12, 2023
Following 2023 Gold Cup Group and Knockout Stage play, the highest 4 finishers will advance to the Semifinals Stage. Snapdragon Stadium will host one of many 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup Semifinal matches, and the semifinal matchup can be confirmed on the conclusion of the Group Stage.
Comedian-Con Worldwide: San Diego
When: Jul. 20-23, 2023
Comedian-Con Worldwide, the biggest comics and popular culture occasion in the USA, attracts hundreds of artists, celebrities and followers of comedian books and popular culture — and it returns to the San Diego Conference Heart this summer time! Together with panels, seminars and workshops with comic-book professionals, attendees can get pleasure from unique previews of upcoming characteristic movies, portfolio-review periods with prime comedian and online game firms, and night occasions reminiscent of awards ceremonies and the Masquerade, a fancy dress contest. There’s additionally the Comedian-Con Worldwide Impartial Movie Pageant, which showcases shorts and feature-length films that shouldn’t have distribution offers.
Del Mar Summer season Racetrack
When: Jul. 21 to Sep. 10, 2023
The Del Mar Racetrack is again with its 2023 summer time racing season. Followers will flock to the enduring monitor the place the “turf meets the surf” to guess on the nation’s prime racehorses, trainers and jockeys whereas having enjoyable within the solar. Other than thrilling, world-class racing, there will even be loads of trackside occasions to attend, together with the Del Mar Beer Fest on Jul. 22, the Style of New Orleans on Aug. 5 and Tacos and Tequila on Aug. 26.
Manchester United vs. Wrexham AFC
When: Jul. 25, 2023
Manchester United returns to the USA for the primary time in 5 years to play fan favorites and the third-oldest membership on this planet, Wrexham AFC, at Snapdragon Stadium. With Wrexham’s latest promotion to League 2, the Manchester United vs. Wrexham AFC match is one soccer followers received’t need to miss.
Bleached Pageant
When: Aug. 5-6
Bleached Pageant, a collaboration between Tight Knit and FNGRS CRSSD, is coming to San Diego’s Waterfront Park. The 2-day occasion will join indie-pop and new-wave R&B with a various lineup that’s topped by Japanese icon and R&B artist Joji and neo-soul singer-songwriter Leon Bridges. Different performers embody Omar Apollo, PinkPantheress, Lizzy McAlpine, Stephen Sanchez, Channel Tres, Surf Curse, BADBADNOTGOOD, Dayglow, Inside Wave and extra.
Eating places
The Kitchen
City Kitchen Group opened a backyard cafe on the Museum of Modern Artwork San Diego in March. The Kitchen presents a full-service daytime menu that highlights the Mediterranean, starting from Turkish-poached eggs and candy and savory buckwheat crepes to swordfish kebabs and lamb bulgur burgers. Later this spring, chef/accomplice Tim Kolanko and government chef Jeff Armstrong will flip a non-public occasion house on the museum right into a lunchtime pop-up that includes four-course tasting menus.
Women Love Outlaws
Heritage Barbecue & Beer Co., the Oceanside counterpart to San Juan Capistrano’s award-winning restaurant, now has a companion cocktail bar usual out of the 600-square-foot vault inside a former financial institution constructing. Named Women Love Outlaws after successful album by outlaw music famous person Waylon Jennings, the lounge’s honky-tonk vibes and basic nation soundtrack, supplied by a classic Wurlitzer jukebox, set the temper for kicking again with a nightcap after eating on the brewpub, which is presently shifting its menu to a extra conventional barbecue platter format.
The Secret Backyard
North Park’s absinthe bar and restaurant, Wormwood, will open a brand new bar-within-a-bar idea that lies hidden past its common again patio. The Secret Backyard can be a totally outside bar serving inventive cocktails with absinthe and French spirits, developed by Wormwood beverage director Jacob Mentel (previously with Consortium Holdings). The Secret Backyard’s drink menu embraces the concept of “liquid delicacies” by way of a robust culinary affect and complexity of flavors.
Chick N’ Hawk
This summer time, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk and founding Jeune et Jolie chef Eric Bost will launch their connoisseur rooster sandwich store, Chick N’ Hawk, in Encinitas. The restaurant will serve rooster gadgets, recent seafood and cocktails.
New Accommodations and Renovations
AC Lodge San Diego Downtown Gaslamp Quarter
The 147-room AC Lodge San Diego Downtown Gaslamp Quarter plans to open its rooftop pool and lounge in early summer time. In Might, the rooftop bar — Techo Beso, that means “rooftop kiss” — will supply a tapas-style menu with tacos, ceviche and cocktails. The rooftop bar is impressed by the power and tradition of affection present in Tulum, Mexico, and incorporates a foremost bar house for a communal get together environment with a DJ elevated to attach the bar to the pool deck.
Palihotel San Diego
This Might, Palihotel San Diego will reimagine the historic St. James Lodge, initially inbuilt 1912, as a vibrant and bustling mainstay. Positioned within the coronary heart of the Gaslamp District and that includes 122 visitor rooms and a rooftop house, Palihotel San Diego will carry a youthful design to San Diego’s resort panorama. Every visitor room will mix Palisociety’s signature California quirky sensibility with nautical-inspired attraction. The resort will even characteristic Saint James French Diner, an all-day eating room that may mix the approachable nature of an American diner with the delicate class of a French bistro.
Lafayette Lodge & Swim Membership
CH Initiatives, identified for creating a few of San Diego’s most attention-grabbing eating places and bars, is increasing its hospitality microcosm by totally reimagining the historic Lafayette Lodge & Swim Membership in North Park, San Diego’s hip neighborhood. The complete property can be reconceived by way of the CH lens, striving to create an all-encompassing immersive oasis within the coronary heart of North Park. Slated to open in June 2023, the resort will embody 141 redesigned guestrooms, foyer house and pool, three new eating places, two extra eating and ingesting retailers, a classic bowling alley, cocktail bar, sport room and all-new pool bar.
The Guild Lodge
The Guild Lodge, a landmark in San Diego’s downtown, has partnered with Be Saha Hospitality Group to steer the meals and beverage operations on the resort. Be Saha Hospitality will open a brand new idea within the resort’s courtyard (previously Luca) this summer time and also will reimagine the Guild Bar, backyard and lounge, in addition to deal with all onsite occasions and room service. The Hospitality Group has introduced on famend Tijuana chef Ruffo Ibarra and culinary director Janina Garay to spearhead the mission. All ideas are slated to be open and in place by early summer time, with new particulars on the bar and lounge ideas that embody the theme of far niente or “the artwork of doing nothing.”
Margaritaville Lodge San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
Downtown San Diego’s Lodge Solamar is present process a $31 million renovation to rework into California’s first city location of the Margaritaville Resort, set to open this summer time. Positioned within the coronary heart of the Gaslamp Quarter, the Margaritaville Lodge San Diego Gaslamp Quarter will characteristic 235 newly upgraded visitor rooms and signature Margaritaville meals and beverage ideas that may change the property’s present choices. The previous Jsix restaurant can be reworked into Landshark Bar & Grill, and the poolside Higher East bar will change into 5 O’Clock Someplace Bar. Each ideas supply an off-the-cuff vibe specializing in American seashore fare and blended cocktails. The foyer will even home a quaint Margaritaville Espresso Store, providing an array of espresso, espresso, tea and different drinks.
Procuring
Cardiff Farmers Market
The Cardiff 101 Mainstreet Affiliation now hosts a weekly Farmers Market each Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Positioned at MiraCosta Faculty’s San Elijo Campus, Cardiff Farmers Market is a Licensed California Farmers Market that includes regionally sourced produce offered by native farmers. The brand new farmers market additionally has an array of associated meals merchandise, ready meals distributors and a curated group of craft distributors and native makers. Confirmed distributors embody Mooski Snacks, Wonderland Farm, MP Household Farm, Rodney Kawano Farm, Sea Greens Microgreens, Crescent Meat, Fishbone Fish, Cardiff Tiny Farm and Emmy Lou Jewellery.
One Paseo
One Paseo, the city village in San Diego’s North County coastal neighborhood of Del Mar, has change into a vacation spot for eating, buying and occasions. In 2023, the coast-meets-country curated mixed-use house will welcome a number of additions and updates to its already stacked assortment, together with South of Nick’s, the Mexican-inspired sister idea to Nick’s Del Mar (opening in Might); Land & Sea (opening in April), a golf and surf life-style store; and The Nice (opening in Might), an industry-favorite ladies’s-wear line.
Tahona Mercado
Along with Tahona Bar in Previous City, San Diego’s Be Saha Hospitality Group will open a retail-focused growth of the Tahona model known as Tahona Mercado in Nationwide Metropolis this June. Tahona Mercado can be an completely retail-focused idea the place guests can store a variety of agave spirits, native craft spirits, and a curated choice of native and Mexican snacks and artisanal merchandise. The Mercado will supply a tasting space the place visitors can uncover new favourite manufacturers and the place academic occasions can be held incessantly.
Transportation
The Seashore Bug
Getting round Pacific Seashore can be a lot simpler with the Seashore Bug, a brand new neighborhood electrical car (NEV) launching this summer time.
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