By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com San Diego Blogger
There’s a new player – new meaning it opened in late 2025 and by now in 2026 is firmly established – in the crowded breakfast community in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter. It is 6th and G Breakfast Co.
Okay, if you want to nitpick it’s technically in East Village, but the location is 6th Ave., & G Street. PubClub.com has been there and is excited about it.
Frankly, one of the things missing from many (most!) San Diego breakfast restaurants – and the Gaslamp is especially guilty of this – is big and hearty I-was-out-at-the-bars-last-night-and-need-something-filling items on the menu. Real meat and potatoes stuff, like a man’s omelette full of carnivorous items with a big heap of hash browns on the side. Mostly, things are too delicate, too fancy, too complicated. The food looks as if it’s designed to look pretty for Instagram and TikTok posts rather than sinking a fork into and satisfying a morning hungar caused by a previous big night out in the Gaslamp bars.
6th and G Breakfast Co., appears to have remedied just that with a Meat Lovers omelette (applewood-smoked bacon, ham, soyrizo, red onions and cheddar cheese; $15.50), a Chicken Anaheim omelette (Asiago chicken, fennel sausage, red onion, fire-roasted Anaheim peppers and Jack Cheese; $15; I had this and it’s my go-to plate now as the sausage is delcious and there’s so much of it that it will definitely fill the belly after a big night at the bars) a breakfast burrito (applewood-smoked bacon, smoked bacon, ham, soyrizo and cheddar cheese; $15), a grilled birria sandwich ($16) a breakfast sausage sandwich ($14) and the heavyweight of them all, steak & eggs ($24). My friend had the vegan eggs benedict and enjoyed them so much it took him a few seconds to tell me exactly how much he liked it because when I asked he was savoring the flavor too much to talk (see the video below).
There are, of course, less plop-down-in-the-stomach items for the ladies, including four types of French Toast ($14 & $16), pancakes with stawberries ($13) and, of course, the inescapable chicken & waffles. I don’t get why every breakfast chef at higher-end type of places feels he or she has to put chicken & waffles on the menu but they do and, here, they are presented in a social media post-friendly KFC-looking mini bucket. Actually, I didn’t see that on the menu but rather in photos provided to PubClub to announce the opening of the restaurant. Perhaps that’s on the back side of the menu or, being a guy, I just plain missed it.
What I did notice were the prices. They are not the least bit sky high but pretty darned good, as good as you can get anywhere in San Diego. That’s a big plus in my book.
For those seeking the shampoo effect the day after a big night out, 6th and G Breakfast Co., does not have bottomless mimosas with breakfast, which is unlike most places in the Gaslamp/East Village. What it does have is a bottle of bubbly with juices for $27 and prosecco for $37. The bloody marys are $12.50 and $13.50 – they are kind of subtle at first but start to take affect after just a few stips – and there are five cocktails plus a Stone Bueneveza beer for $7 and a Michelda for $9. It also has a really good drink called the Light Bulb, a rum-based cocktail that kind of tastes like watermelon. It’s not at all sweet, is served in a lightbulb and there’s so much of it that it’s almost like getting two drinks.
Inside, the place looks kind of Vegas-ish with big, lighted 6th & G lettering; funky murals on the walls, a bookshelf, parlor chairs, etc. It actually kind brings to mind the vintage carousel in Balboa Park.
The restaurant is from Rise & Shine Hospitality Group, which operates Breakfast Republic (of which there is a location one block away at 6th & G and since there’s always a wait there on weekends it actually makes sense to open something else nearby) and the Breakfast Company just down the street at 6th & J.
Address: 695 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA
This article was written by a human and not AI-generated content.
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