Del Norte Plaza — Local services in Escondido

It’s a dead area off the highway. They’ve added a new Starbucks which looks nice and is always busy. It has a drive thru also. there is a big CVS but the pharmacy department is definitely understaffed. Prescriptions don’t get filled on time. The other restaurants there are older like an IHOP, El Pollo Loco, Dairy Queen. Those places are not very nice and the layout of the parking is strange, not great for walking from your car to the door. There are too many crossings throughout the whole lot. Several stores have closed down. A lot of businesses are slow including a Kahoots, a Chinese restaurant and a Vons. I wouldn’t stop by there in the evenings. The shopping center is just filled with homeless people. Literally every corner has a person begging for money and sometimes food. Pass by at any hour of the day, on any day there is something going on. People yelling at each other is not unusual. The whole city needs to get cleaned up. Some of the stores are clean and have okay staff but I don’t go here if I...

This place is my go to for great variety, fresh, delicious baked bread and customer service with a smile. Even when Covid was at its beginning they were always considerate, patient and attentive to their customers concerns or needs. Now with the somewhat behind us, I continue to go, as the service I receive, no matter what time or day,I s always greeted and done with a smile. That in itself, will have me coming back. Kudos to the management and their employees for all their hard work. It does not go without notice. I especially admire to see them engage with each other in a positive form in all matters. From this customer's perspective, they are doing something right and that's a huge double "High Five" & Thank...

So very large parking lot but too many cars and one parking lot so the whole property is great cleansing it's very clean and it's spacious and everything but there is a lot of cars that are in the parking spaces and it's very tight so your car's are going in and out of there so fast why I was there just in my experience there was two accidents because people are hitting each other because there's so much traffic in that parking lot and going to the Dollar store going to IHOP going to to on the other side of the property where I was it was just a lot it was just too many cars but other than that it's cleanliness and all the stores are great...