A-List San Diego Restaurant: Dobson's

From a very young age, my Dad thought me something that has always stuck in my head about restaurants and restaurateurs. It's all comes down to Customer Service and specially if the owner is 100% there, as a host, bartender, chef, mingling, and far most important a friendly face and adoring attitude. That's Paul Dobson.

I started going to Dobson's since I was 10-11 years old. My Dad use to take us for lunch and I simply couldn't resist the wonderful signature Mussel Bisque en croute. Oh my God, still 'till this day I cannot resist it. With a pierced puff pastry crust and sherry into bisque.YUM!

Sometimes I will order a main dish like the mouth watering Sauteed Sea Bass with sweet peppers or the Balsamic Marinated Prime Flat with shoestring potatoes. In one occasion they had my ultimate favorite, Duck Breast topped with Jordan Almonds, it was pure perfection.

I have dined in the upstairs mezzanine as well, but there's something about the bar in general that you have to sit there and enjoy the ambiance. The bar is what makes this restaurant so popular, among his most loyal clientele, like my parents, over the years it it now a place for all us, the kid's who grew up who can barely reach the bar, we can NOW sit at the bar like grown ups in a candy store. 
Best time to go is during the week at lunch definitely and after 5pm


Dobson's is THE place where Paul Dobson knows your name.

Dobson's Bar & Restaurant

956 Broadway Cir (between 1st/3rd Ave) San Diego, CA

(619) 231-6771   |   www.dobsonsrestaurant.com
Price Range: $$$ (but well worth it)