Shades Oceanfront Bistro

San Diego, California, United States

Shades Oceanfront Bistro offers fairly high quality soups, salads, sandwiches, and blankets (flatbread pizzas). For dinner they also have a selection of entrees. The restaurant offers casual oceanfront dining with a great view, good food, and reasonable prices.

The portions are quite large so you may want to split a sandwich if you're not that hungry. All the food we ordered here was quite good. The sandwiches were a bit plain. Other members in our group ordered a blanket and I think I would recommend getting one of the blankets over a sandwich. Other members in our group also really liked the roasted red pepper soup, the onion rings, and the tortilla soup.

Cost

Sandwiches are $8-$10.

Items Ordered

Roast Beef Sandwich

Roast Beef Sandwhich

The sandwich was pretty good. The meat was fairly plain tasting, as was the Jus. There was a lot of meat on the sandwich, but nothing else. The sweet potato fries were really good - sweet and crispy.

Shades Chicken Sandwich

Shades Chicken Sandwich

The melted Brie cheese tasted really good and went well with the sandwich. Otherwise the sandwich was just ok. The sweet potato fries were the same as the other sandwich and were also really good.

Dress

Very casual.

Parking

There were several parking spaces available on the streets around the restaurant.

Area

The restaurant is located just across from the beach. This is a great place to eat and have a walk on the beach. Just down the road there is also a really nice pier you can walk out on to enjoy the view.