Café Matinal
Get the cortado and a pastry, grab the counter seat facing Ingraham. Pacific Beach wakes up slower than downtown. 7:30 AM here feels like you've got the neighborhood to yourself before the surfers need breakfast.
Cortado. Their pastries rotate but whatever just came out of the oven is the order.
- Address
- 3804 Ingraham St spot 2, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
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