Best Pre-Theater Restaurants in Banker's Hill

Balboa Park is beautiful, especially during the Christmas season. The receptionist has a big beautiful welcoming smile and we were seated promptly. The cocktails were delicious (Old Fashioned and raspberry lemon drop). The servers and waitress (Brittany) were very attentive. The food was excellent, as always. Beef sushi roll (who knew?!), the Caesar salad, the short ribs - tender and so flavorful. The Prado never disappoints!

Food selection as follows: pierogi-great flavor, all around excellent carrots-great flavor, however, some carrots were a little too crisp, some were perfect, some were burnt. Short ribs-good presentation and spices, but too salty Swordfish-excellent clams and sauce, fish was overcooked cornish hen-perfect Basque cheesecake-excellent

We absolutely loved this restaurant! The service was excellent! Our beautiful server she was amazing. Owners daughter. But the food yum! We have been to Italy several times and this was like being in Italy. My husband had the Chicken parmigiana and I had the vodka sauce with Shrimp and crab. Out of this world delicious. We will be back!!!!

Great place to catch a bite to eat with drinks before seeing a show at the Civic Center. Really appreciate the additional discount and it's a close walk. It can be quite loud in there though, and lots of hotel guests have kids which just screamed non-stop... Not the issue of the hotel though.

We had the pleasure of dining here on Christmas Eve. It was a beautiful 4-course menu including an amuse Bouche, a choice between two salads, four entrees and two desserts. The service was absolutely on point! Great attention to detail and the server assistants were fabulous too. The food runner was lovely and explained each course. The food was absolutely delicious. By far our best meal in San Diego. Thank you all!