Menu
Smash Burgers to Poke Burritos
Palmy's breakfast menu gets most of the attention, but the handhelds section carries the same coastal-Hawaiian thread straight through lunch. Smash burgers, a seared spam club, crispy tenders, and two different burritos all sit on the same board - nothing borrowed from a generic sandwich-shop template.
Latte Art and Home Brewing
Inside Palmy’s Coffee Workshops Palmy’s coffee program doesn’t stop at the counter. A coffee workshop San Diego regulars can actually sign up for puts the same baristas who pull the espresso every morning on the other side of the lesson, teaching latte art and home-brew techniques directly. Latte Art, Taught by the People Who Pour...
Gluten-Free, Vegan, Vegetarian
How Palmy’s Menu Works for Every Diet Palmy’s is upfront about it – the menu covers vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free eating without turning into health food along the way. That’s an easy claim to make and a harder one to actually build a menu around. A look at what’s on the board shows the swaps...
Beyond the Latte
A Tour of Palmy’s Full Drink Menu Coffee gets top billing at most cafes, and Palmy’s espresso program earns its own attention. But scroll further down the drink menu and there’s a whole second program running alongside it – ceremonial-grade matcha, smoothies built from real produce, and a lineup of craft lemonades and sodas that...
Poke Bowls & Big Swell Burritos
Order at Palmy's on a Saturday and you'll see both directions the menu can go in the same ticket line: a cold, citrus-bright poke bowl headed to one table, a Big Swell Burrito the size of a forearm headed to the next. Neither one is the “safe” order here. They're just the two different cravings this kitchen was built to cover.
From Chia Pudding to Chicken & Waffles
Building a Menu for Every Kind of Morning Two people can sit down at the same table at Palmy’s and order what look like meals from two different restaurants. One walks away with a chia seed pudding and an acai bowl. The other orders chicken and waffles with a side of Old Bay tots. Both...
Plant-Forward, Produce-Driven
Plant-forward, produce-driven sounds like it should mean salads and not much else. At Palmy's it means something more specific: a kitchen that starts with fresh, local ingredients and lets the menu go wherever that leads - sometimes a chia seed pudding, sometimes a Big Swell Burrito, sometimes Steak & Eggs.
The Secret’s in the Tots
How Old Bay Tots Became Palmy’s Signature Every brunch spot has a dish regularly ordered without looking at the menu. At Palmy’s in Pacific Beach, that dish isn’t the acai bowl or the chicken and waffles – it’s the Old Bay tots. What started as a crispy, Chesapeake-seasoned side has quietly become the ingredient that...