Location: San Diego
Top Things to do in San Diego
Top 10 Shopping Malls in San Diego, California (CA)
San Diego embodies laid-back California culture, complete with a Boardwalk, surfing communities, and outstanding Mexican food. Breathe in the fresh ocean air at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park, then gobble down a fresh fish taco at a La Jolla seafood joint. The naval aircrafts at the USS Midway Museum will have you standing at attention. A free Sunday concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion is the perfect way to unwind after a Saturday night bar-hop in the thumping Gaslamp Quarter.
Restaurants in San Diego
1. Fashion Valley
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 598 reviews
San Diego's finest collection of stores in a beautiful outdoor shopping center featuring 200 stores and restaurants including an 18 screen movie theater. Five department stores include: Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdale's and JCPenney. Featured stores include: Ted Baker, Omega, Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton, Tory Burch, Coach, Juicy Couture, Hugo BOSS, Gucci, Henri Bendel and more. Restaurants include: The Cheesecake Factory, PF Chang's China Bistro, California Pizza Kitchen, Stacked Well Built, Love Boat Sushi and twelve bistro cafes.
Reviewed By FredN47 - Walnut Creek, United States
We love this shopping center.. We took our Granddaughter to build a bear. Had a lot of fun building a bear! the other shops were nice also.
2. Hazard Center
3. Westfield UTC
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 49 reviews
Reviewed By Ama_BP2 - Lima, Peru
This has to be one of the prettiest malls I've ever visited. It's an open space concept, full of high-end stores, an amazing food plaza and it even has its own ice rink! We enjoyed our short time there so much. My husband and kids visited the Tesla store, which they loved, while I spent some quality alone time at the Amazon store next door. Parking was free! I'd love to go back!
4. Seaport Village
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 4,685 reviews
A destination for discovery, Seaport Village is a vibrant, harbor-side hub showcasing more than 50 shops and eclectic retailers alongside art galleries, cafes, restaurants and a historic, hand-carved carousel.
Reviewed By cherier548
I am a second generation San Diegan. In 1980 I was attending San Diego State University and watched Seaport Village rise as the brilliant new uplift to a struggling downtown, located on the southern turn of its waterfront, bookending the city with Balboa Park laying northeast. Upstart Crow was the first bookshop/coffee house I had ever encountered and their embrace of both astonished and delighted me. The art gallery across from it was stunning and its pieces within reach if you saved up some money. Nothing was ordinary about the Village or its shops. Geppetto's toy store with toys only made of wood, the Harbor House with an unparalleled menu, and the landscape of rolling, green mounds, winding sidewalks and nautical lighting was pure joy. Who can improve on this? To tear down or radically alter Seaport Village would be like wiping out San Francisco's Pier 39 or Seattle's Pier 57. Our two sister cities developed their piers to appeal to visitors just like Seaport Village in the early 80's, and all three became as embedded in the hearts of the inhabitants as intrinsic to their city's identity and character as in the hearts of the visitors. So little lasts out west. Let our icons be. When firestorms rage and wipe out entire neighorhoods in our north and east county, why not allow those of us who grew up with San Diego and future generations to take a walk through a truly unique little seaside village that echoes the voices and tumble of our small children playing, and a man and woman, still straddling youth, buying each other t-shirts silk-screened with their favorite fantasy creatures. The sunsets are beautiful from Seaport Village's vista, let it stand. If you visit San Diego, put this on your list with the Midway and tall ships around the bend along Harbor Drive, the Spaghetti Factory in Gaslamp (just like San Francisco and Seattle), and of course the zoo, museums, and hospitality houses in Balboa Park up the hill.
5. One Paseo
6. Mission Valley Center
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 50 reviews
Offering the most extensive collection of stores and restaurants in the entire region, this San Diego mall includes major department stores and over 200 specialty shops and boutiques.
7. Westfield University Town Center
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 37 reviews
The premier shopping center in the area that offers 160 shops, three beauty salons, an ice skating rink and video entertainment center.
Reviewed By salders0n56 - California, United States
This is an outdoor mall. UTC manifests the best of San Diego weather. The Mall is outside. There are small stores and big retailers. There is a great choice of restaurants. The skating rink is a wonderful attraction.
8. San Diego Factory Outlet Center
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 118 reviews
Bargains can be found north of the border at the 30 shops of this outlet mall.
Reviewed By valehs93
Great vaierty of stores at very cheap prices, also the food in the food court is amazing please try de sushi there!
9. Westfield Horton Plaza
Overall Ratings
3.0 based on 378 reviews
A huge, creatively designed shopping center.
10. The Paladion
Downtown San Diego's fancy fashion center, located inside a three-level, open-atrium structure, featuring such notable stores as Tiffany & Co. and Cartier.
