Ray "Ninja" L.'s Profile

By far the best seafood in San Diego.

The service is amazing, definitely a top-notch staff.

The food is to die for... the crabcake is the best in the country and I've had crabcake in most major cities in the US. I've had it at the Foundation Room and other private places that you have to have a membership or invite only on business trips and yet this crabcake easily blows every other crabcake I've had out of the water. It's like 90% crab meat with just enough other filling and seasonings to accentuate the amazing taste and to keep its shape.

I could write on and on forever about how great this place is but in reality you already know it's amazing due to the 4.5 star average of over 300+ reviews.

I always thought seafood was decent but nothing special since I've been to a lot of decent seafood places across the country but never one that was amazing like this. Now, I love seafood thanks to Oceanaire.

Warning, this is the first time yelp has failed me. I always had great experience with places 4 stars and higher but this place is a dud.  Notice that all the people that rate this place highly always state how great the view is or how great the atmosphere is. When we came here, a huge family had children running around the restaurant out of control and no one cared. The view is OK, but if you want to see a decent view go to Chicago or New York, it's not even comparable.

I haven't written for Yelp for a long time but I was so outraged by our experience here that I had to write this.

The service was terrible. The wait staff was uncoordinated and people would come by asking us the same questions without performing actions. Our head waitress wasn't even there half the time sending her underlings who weren't coordinated and kept asking questions like would you like coffee, even after we ordered coffee with another one of her minions. They would sacrifice quality service for quantity of random people that would show up at your table. Random servers would come to switch out utensils without asking, and when you said Thank You they would ignore you. Only one time did a server say you're welcome. Not only were they rude/haughty, they were slow. My water glass was empty more than half the time. The one good note about the service is that the guy that came out with my friend's desert had carried it wrong and the desert fell apart and he asked my friend if he wanted a new one but my friend declined.  Overall, if you want good service even a chain like Ruth's Chris has infinitely better service, without the attitude, or a classy restaurant like Oceanaire has wait staff that is properly trained.  Also, it took multiple requests to get more bread, and boy will you need it. The quantity is the worst out of any restaurant I've been to. The total amount of food per dish was roughly a palm each.

Now on to the food. The food wasn't bad but it was nothing to write home about. To be honest, the food is maybe a 3 star. However, the quantity made it abysmal. You could barely taste the food with the small quantity they served. There are two good points about their food though. Their dessert is excellent, not worth the $11.50 but excellent quality and presentation. Also, their bread was excellent and so was their butter.  Can't say the same about their appetizers/entrees but at least their bread and dessert were good.

Now to explain why this place has such a high rating even though it doesn't deserve it. There were a lot of drunk frat-kids here when we went and being drunk fogs your memory. Thus, drunk people who just remember paying alot for very small quantity don't want to admit they are suckers so they say how great the view is or how great the service is because they're too sloshed to remember their bad experience. I've never been more disappointed in a meal but I should have heeded the warning signs when the majority of the views focus on the great view and supposed great service, but not the food quality.

In a nutshell... horrendous service - uncoordinated inept staff that try to make up bad attitudes with sheer quantity of staff that come to the table rather than offer quality service, average food but with outrageous prices for such mediocre quality, terrible atmosphere, a fool's trap. This is a great example of people justifying something unacceptable just because of the high price tag.

My favorite place to shop, I try to come here everyday but sometimes more than once a day because their 50% off rack kicks sooo much @$$. It's like winning the lottery. Fresh & Easy is a ridiculously good value. I'll give a sample of some of the amazingly good deals I've gotten here before:

$1 for 80/20 pound of hamburger meat
$1.25 for a bag of Tortino's pizza rolls (40 pack)
$1.19 for a bag of Fresh & Easy potstickers (9 count)
$1.00 for a bag of 6 raisin bagels
$4.00 for 8 pounds of marinated chicken
$2.00 giant burritos
79 cents per pound for a whole, hormone free chicken!

My homepage is set to the fresh and easy website. The deals change weekly.

Oh and it's funny because I have a metal plate in my arm and set off the alarm when I go in and out but almost all the workers know me and are cool. They're super friendly.

This place is awesome, just so many good deals. It's like cheaper than Costco without having to buy the bulk. Oh and they have awesome free samples just like Costco! Even brand name items are cheaper than Ralph's and Von's. The surprising thing is that the Fresh & Easy brand items are really high quality and indistinguishable from the name brand items in general.

Trader Joe's is good for only a couple of things like fresh produce but Fresh & Easy is just like the funnest place to go to!

My favorite place in San Diego.

Why go to Santana's or any other Mexican chain when you have awesomeness that is the Wahoo Bonzai Fish Burrito. That thing is amazing. The fish taco is alright but whatever sauce they put into the Bonzai Fish Burrito is the gnarliest stuff on the planet. The sauce is superb. Anywhere where I can be filled up on healthy, perfectly seasoned combo plate for only $9 is a place I will come back to again and again. Not to mention there's a really cute girl working there that is super nice makes it a place to hit up at least once a week. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was that the fish taco is good but lacks the amazing sauce of the bonzai fish burrito. Definitely taking out of town friends for fish tacos here.

This is more like a fair than a farmer's market. If you want to support the local economy then yeah, buy produce from here like I have been... but really the prices aren't great and the quality is about the same as super market quality (i.e. Costco $5 for 4 lbs of strawberries v. $7 for not even 3 lbs. at the market). The good thing is there are so many food vendors and free thinkers out here it's more of a fun place to hang out every Wednesday. Lotsa very cool people here but Trader Joe's probably has better selection/prices.

5 stars for my favorite sushi chef Ray. Because of him and his amazing skills, I come back here every Friday for the best value sushi period. I gotta watch out though because if I didn't limit myself to only Fridays I would end up getting mercury poisoning like Jeremy Piven. He makes some killer rolls! The dragon roll rocks my socks but I love the good ol' salmon roll that is the bread and butter.

Oh and the servers are really cool too and there is a really hot server chick that works here too. Nice big screen TVs for watching games as well.

If you don't feel like sushi you can always get their lunch combo specials which are pretty good and change depending on the day: tonkatsu, kalbi, bulgogi, etc. That I would give a decent but nothing special.

Every place should be like this 50% of all rolls all the time or 40% to go. The sushi is so cheap you can tip 50% or even 100% and pay less than at typical sushi places.

My go-to Thai place in Point Loma. Their lunch specials are killer and actually fill you up. I highly highly recommend the mock duck, it tastes like meat but the texture is a little different but man is it good! I'm a hardcore carnivore trying to eat less meat to save the planet so having amazing things like mock duck is gnarly! Their pad thai is excellent as well and so are their curries. I've taken groups of friends here and picked up the bill because really it's just so damn cheap feeding 3 people for less than $40 at dinner with drinks and all that? w00t is all I can say. Oh don't forget they have punch cards too if you spend enough $$ so if you get hooked like I do you can get free meals from the punch card.

Protip: the spicy scale is 1-10 but the servers are smart and when I brought my white friends here they adjusted -2 and saved my friends and with the -2 my friends were still like whoa this is spicy. The spiciness is a bit inconsistent and may be + / - 2 so just a heads up. If you are insane go for the 10... hope you have Thai Iced Tea around for an emergency cuz water will just make the burning worse haha

So we get there this Wednesday and they ask how many people so we said 3. We waited an hour and 20 minutes and they take us to a table and tell us we can't get the 1.50 lobster taco special because we didn't wait in line to go to the bar. It's great that they didn't tell us this in the beginning and then screwed us over like that without being understanding. They wanted us to wait another 40 minutes in line to go into the bar area to get the lobster tacos.

All I can say is, wow way to treat your customers right! I mean how hard is it to be a hostess. They have 2 hostesses up front and both didn't tell us this. There job is just to stand there and look pretty and to assume we wanted to be seated with the old geezers who don't want lobster tacos?

Oh and my friend's roommate Andrea said the regular food sucks here so we didn't stay and just left for Wahoo's to get some real tacos after wasting an hour and 20 minutes waiting.

Fuck this place.

This key shop is excellent. I went to other key shops who didn't know how to duplicate the key for the new scooter I bought and this one did it in 1 minute and super super cheap. Cool owner guy, highly recommended. Now I know where to get my keys done. He even said that if it didn't work to bring my scooter but that was totally unnecessary. He was able to duplicate the foreign key design with no problems.

Holy crud so not only does Eric provide a great price (I looked up my IL Bello Scooter and no one beat his amazing price) and the best service, today I went in to pickup the license plates that he registered for me and he put them on for me!!! OMG he is so great, if it weren't for him, I would've had such a hard time trying to figure out how to attach it as I have never attached a license plate... probably would've taking me a whole afternoon finding bolts, going to a shop to buy them, trying to figure out how to attach them...  Eric is a great guy and I'm so glad I bought my scooter from him!