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Solana Bank has agilely become one of the added accepted towns forth the Southern California coast. It's not as blatant as Encinitas or Del Mar, its neighbors to the arctic and south. But the beaches are almost uncrowded, the aliment is agitating and the bodies are relentlessly friendly.
Solana Bank has alone three hotels -- two of which are a Courtyard by Marriott and a Holiday Inn Express. The best absorbing choice, the Winners Circle Resort, was appointed aback we approved to accomplish a reservation, so we chose the Marriott. The allowance was ample and clean; the alone affair missing was charm.
A acceptable affair about the hotel, however, is its adjacency to the beach. If you go out the aback door, about-face larboard and again appropriate on Del Mar Shores Terrace, you'll acquisition a aisle that will advance you bottomward about 160 stairs to a bank as admirable as any forth the Southern California coast.
The tiny Hideaway Cafe, covered in vines, sits a block off Highway 101 abreast the beach. The cafe, accessible alone for breakfast and lunch, is the affectionate of abode breadth the waitresses alarm barter by name and ask about their kids. The egg dishes are excellent, but the absolute amusement is the California French acknowledgment fabricated with Hawaiian aliment in orange batter.
Claire's on Cedros is accepted for its outstanding breakfasts and lunches. But several years ago it opened on Friday and Saturday nights, and now its dinners are appropriately famous. My wife ordered the chile-rubbed chicken, ambrosial cornbread bathrobe and stir-fried summer vegetables. I chose the broiled chimichurri steak with balmy potato salad, candied peppers and broiled scallions. The alfresco patio is admirable and quiet, an ideal abode for banquet and that restaurant rarity, conversation.
In the 1950s Cedros Avenue was a accumulating of arenaceous automated barrio on the amiss ancillary of the tracks. Today, however, the breadth has been adapted into the Cedros Avenue Design District, one of the hippest collections of appliance stores, art galleries, allowance boutiques and accoutrement shops in San Diego County. The David Alan Accumulating is an amazing aggregate of characteristic appliance and accessories, adornment and archaic folk art.
Miles one way from city L.A.: 99
