National City
The county's Filipino food capital; best-eating small city in San Diego.
33National City is the best-eating small city in the county — home to one of the region's largest Filipino American communities, whose turo-turo counters, bakeries, and banquet rooms run the length of Plaza Boulevard and 8th Street. Add TJ-style birria from 6am on Highland, the county's oldest ice cream maker (1948), and the pizza parlor that raised Tom Waits (1958), and the Mile of Cars becomes the least interesting thing here by a mile. Come in the morning, bring cash, and end at Niederfrank's.
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Tita's is still the most complete answer to where National City eats best.
If Royal Mandarin wins the wing argument, Golden Chopsticks wins on breadth.
Niederfrank's earns this on current product, not age.