West End Bar & Kitchen — Restaurant in San Diego

Very happy that my husband found this last minute for our anniversary date night.

Beautiful aesthetic and absolutely phenomenal food!

Got the Tropicale Salad to start. And it was quite a nutritious and hearty salad. Fresh mango and tomatoes and hearts of palm with the rugula and that dressing was unbelievably good! We asked for the dressing on the side and added only a little and it was just perfectly enough. Added some grilled shrimp on top and that flavor was really lovely! Only downside is that there were only four shrimp there and portion size of the hearts of palm and the mango was also quite little. So it was a lot of arugula with very little of the extra toppings.

Mussels in Coconut Curry - real good! What a large portion size of the muscles and the sauce was also very smooth and had a nice distinct coconut flavor with a nice herbiness as well. Grilled crusty bread on the side was very soft and perfect on the inside and crusty on the outside. The combination of the muscles with the sauce and the bread was really lovely.

Del Mar Crab Ravioli - UNBELIEVABLY GOOD! I have no words to say how good this was! Really large raviolis with a good amount of filling(real proper crab not just some mixture of stuff) + very delicious creamy sauce. Super good! It was only 4 raviolis, but they were large!!

That also got us a Figgy Bread Pudding on the house when I happened to mention that it was our anniversary dinner. The bread pudding was SO soft and warm and cozy and just wow! Super yummy and indulgent. Server also recommended a vanilla ice cream on the side and it was just the perfect sidekick.

10/10 recommend this place. Everything was a hit and service was really...

This was a very puzzling and disheartening dining experience. We ordered three standard menu items (no changes or substitutions), and all of them came out with ingredients not matching what was listed on the menu. Both servers we spoke to about it seemed to not think it was a problem, but agreed to "accommodate" our request for the correct items. We waited and waited. Because we were still hungry and tired of sitting there, we wearily asked if we could just pay for our stuff and leave. They were more than happy to charge us in full for our food items without so much as an apology for the poor experience.

It's worth mentioning that one of the items we ordered was a basic margarita. It did not taste like a margarita. When we asked about it, our server said he'd made it with seltzer and lemon juice. He was certain this was the correct way to do it, and said that if we wanted something different we should have specified the margarita ingredients we wanted. There's a lot to unpack here, but I don't think it's appropriate to charge $13-14 for a drink not made by a bartender.

In conclusion, if you want to eat okay food while getting gaslighted, you're probably just better off calling up your ex than eating here. It would certainly be...

Located right across from the Los Penasquitos Lagoon this little brunch and lunch spot is on the border of Del Mar and Carmel Valley. I have driven down this street countless times over the years and I’ve seen all the different versions that have been in this place and will say West End is my favorite of those. We usually stop in for breakfast and every time that we do it is consistently good. Inside is also recently remodeled and they did a really great job with the bar area especially. There is a free parking lot attached out back otherwise neighborhood parking is also easy to find. Our server was very polite and everything that we ordered came out very fast.

We started off with the Shrimp Ceviche, which is pretty good, although it was a little too watery in my opinion. It almost was like a soup with some ceviche in it. For my breakfast, I chose the Crab Cake Benedict and thought it was fantastic. The eggs were cooked perfectly and the crabcake was full of crab flavor and I just loved it. They were also perfectly crispy and I really enjoyed the meal as a whole. They also have other great options on the menu so I would highly suggest to anyone in or near the area to...