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111 restaurants in San Diego, San Diego, CA that earn more on your cards

San Diego has 111 restaurants in our San Diego, CA listings: 106 take a dining program and 6 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top cuisines: American (16), Bakery (7), and Café (7).

111 restaurants

Restaurants
111
Neighborhoods
1
Cuisines
48
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
6

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in San Diego

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. inKind (67 restaurants) and Upside (27) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 111 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in San Diego

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

48 cuisines in San Diego

8 neighborhoods near San Diego

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

Editorial disclosure: CardRewards.ai is an independent comparison service. Card data comes from issuers' published terms; catalog last published October 12, 2026, and each card page shows when its terms were last checked. Card issuers do not influence our rankings or content.