The Square at Bressi Ranch — Local services in Carlsbad

This area has a lot of stores/restaurants and is set up to reflect a "hometown" atmosphere with sidewalk and patio areas, quaint storefronts and street parking. Well, they kind of did that... It's always crowded! The streets are super narrow and those stores that have parking lots are small, making navigating around the streets difficult. (There is usually a line to get into Trader Joe's parking lot, causing gridlock on the street with no way to scoot past waiting cars). There is a nice park at one end of the center where you can run your dog or quietly sit and have a coffee etc. There are the usual higher end, unique restaurants/shops that cater to that Carlsbad upper crust. I feel the planners had a great vision when it comes to this center, I just don't think that planned for the amount of people it...

I'm here at least once a week for Wasabi edamame, which like everything else is overly expensive. The cashiers are constantly changing and have terrible attitudes. They keep changing product locations and the cash back only allows $40. If taken in all, one of my least favorite stores, weird because Trader Joe's across the street is awesome. So it's definitely the...

Brand new shopping and dining strip mall directly across the street from Trader Joe's. There's a brand new Sprouts and several other interesting restaurants and stores including a golf experience store and several new stores coming. This mall is so new many of the stores including those in my photos aren't even listed on Google yet. It's worth the drive to...