The Café at Alma San Diego in downtown San Diego serves as the ground-floor restaurant inside the Alma Hotel, a 211-room Tribute Portfolio property at 1047 Fifth Avenue between the Gaslamp Quarter and Little Italy. The split-service format runs craft coffee and fresh-squeezed juices alongside California comfort plates like the Alma Double Cheeseburger and local seafood entrées, a hotel-lobby dining scope that shares Fifth Avenue's breakfast corridor with Broken Yolk Cafe a few blocks south. The hotel blends Mexican heritage influences with Art Deco design details — rich wood floors, patterned tile, and rooftop pool terrace views over the downtown skyline. A bar program running Aperol spritzes, flat whites, and globally inspired cocktails complements the kitchen through both morning and evening seatings, operating along the same mid-downtown stretch as Cafe 222. The most complex plate is the herb-encrusted prime rib served with twice-baked potatoes, grilled asparagus, and jus during seasonal prix fixe dinner events.