Cali Breakfast opens in downtown San Diego

Gold prime New York steak and eggs at Cali Breakfast in downtown San Diego.

Jan. 3, 2023 10:35 AM PT

Cali Breakfast, a new café serving Latin American and California breakfast dishes with a cocktail program, opened in November in the historic El Cortez building in downtown San Diego. Cali Breakfast is both child- and pet-friendly.

The menu at Cali Breakfast combines various breakfast and brunch options, including lobster Benedict and “Gold Steak and Eggs,” a gold-coated 10-oz. prime New York steak with three eggs any style and house potatoes. Other options include Oreo French toast, strawberries and gelato French toast and breakfast burritos.The restaurant’s bloody mary bar serves margarita flights, espresso martinis and fruity cocktails.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays-Sundays at 702 Ash St., Suite E., San Diego. Ca.. (619) 310-6522 or visit cali-breakfast.com or instagram.com/calibreakfast.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.