Food in San Pedro

A corner market on Walker Avenue in a residential part of San Pedro, family run since 1978, where the sandwich counter does most of the trade. You order a hot pastrami or an Italian cold cut, it is built bigger than you asked for, and you eat it on the curb or in the car. Cash only, with an ATM by the door.

Mon to Sat, 10am to 5pm. Closed Sun

The Trani family have been feeding San Pedro since 1925, when the place opened as a cafe for men working the fish canneries and the docks. It is still an Italian restaurant with white cloths and a bar you can sit at. The waiters have worked there a long time. Dinner only, five nights a week, and it is busy on a Saturday without being hard to get into.

Closed Mon and Tue. Wed to Sun, 5pm to 9pm

A pizza and pasta place on the corner of Sixth and Centre, directly across from the Grand Annex. Red booths, a counter and pizza by the slice or the whole thing. Get the garlic rolls. It opens at half ten in the morning and runs to half eleven on weekend nights, which makes it both the lunch and the walk-home option on the same street as two stages.

Sun to Thu, 10:30am to 10:30pm. Fri and Sat, 10:30am to 11:30pm

A diner on Pacific Avenue that has been serving since 1940, with a counter, vinyl booths and a menu of eggs and hash that has not been updated to suit anyone. Service is fast because the turnover is fast. It is the closest real breakfast to Cabrillo Beach and it does not pretend to be anything else.

Mon to Fri, 7am to 2pm. Sat and Sun, 7am to 3pm

A small storefront on Fifth Street in the arts district that serves the same menu from nine in the morning until nine at night. Eggs and bacon in the morning, then steak and fries, lamb and shrimp later, on paper menus in a narrow dining area. It is the one place downtown that will feed you at four in the afternoon, which is when a lot of people need feeding.

Mon to Sat, 9am to 9pm. Sun, 9am to 2:45pm