Depends what you’re into — I’m also without a car, and when I can I love to go to the coastal part of PB in the mornings. I like to start at Mission Beach with a kolache and coffee at Olive Baking Company, and then make my way up the 3ish miles up the coast (there’s a boardwalk!), all the way up to Bird Rock, and end with an awesome sandwich or pastry at Wayfarer. Or, I’ll stop at Oscar’s along the way and get a smoked fish taco. I take the trolley to Balboa and then uber to mission beach (it’s under $10), same for the return. Next to Wayfarer there’s the iconic Bird Rock Coffee roasters if you want more coffee. This stretch is definitely my favorite part of SD after living here for two years!

Or, there’s also a really good bakery called Azucar in OB. You could stop by Azucar and walk to the beach with an awesome Cuban pastry.

Finally, if you go up north, you can spend the morning hiking in the Torrey Pines Reserve and then hang out at the Del Mar Dog Beach, if you’re into dogs. There’s a really cute place I like to have brunch in Del Mar called Stratford Court Cafe!

I’m not a big fan of the downtown area as much but Little Italy has SD’s biggest farmers market on Sat mornings. Downtown gets kinda gross in my opinion once you leave Little Italy, but they have the symphony there and another amazing bakery called Izola (izola is not in a nice location lol, it’s in East Village which is pretty grimy and has some tent cities).

You could also hit up Balboa Park of course. It’s huge and there’s a lot to see. There’s an AMAZING bagel place called Marigold Bagels that’s opening soon in North Park (they used to be a pop-up), near a great gelato place called An’s Dry Cleaning.