Best place for breakfast, real breakfast.
Brians’ Eatery & Drinkery
828 Sixth Ave.
San Diego, Ca 92101
Breakfast Lunch Dinner and Late Night
The staff is very friendly and helpful.  It is several blocks up from the Convention Center but it was right around the corner from my hotel.  The food was great, no waiting in line for a table, and it is kind of out of the way.  At night they have live entertainment.

Best place for lunch.
Cine Café
412 K St
San Diego, Ca
This is a sandwich shop that is located about a block and half from the convention center in between 4th and 5th.  They have a great menu of sandwiches, it is also doubles as a convenience store, and you can have them make any sandwich you want and  it’s close, which increases in importance as the week goes on and your feet hurt more.

Make sure you get tickets to the myITforum.com party early, they gave away 300 tickets in just a couple of hours and had to get Microsoft and the convention center to agree to more $pace.

Do not arrive late to any labs, even a couple minutes late.  I, and others, showed up for a lab two minutes late and eventpoint had already filled the room with the standby and wait list people.

Bring your own Internet connection.  If you want an Internet connection anywhere that in the hotspots you need to bring your own phone or card for wireless connections.   

We went to La Fajita’s on 5th St. and after waiting for 45 minutes the food was bland, my wife actually returned her food, which the manager wanted to debate what she did not care for, this of course added another level of satisfaction after paying $15 per plate.  We ended up not paying for her entrée but the food was a disappointment, the Mexican rice tasted like the rice you get with the cheese enchilada TV dinner, the beans did not taste homemade, but almost from a can. 

Petco Park, we went to see the Padres play the Diamond Backs, we have made a couple trips to Petco, my companies users conference convention is at the SDCC every year but it is about a week and a half and we setup around 600 computers and have 12,000 attendees, it is a great park for families, they have a whiffle ball stadium where a Padres marketing staff member pitches until the 7th inning.  They have a picnic area for families as well, I am not sure what parks have for food nowadays but they have everything from hot dogs to BBQ.  The seating is comfortable and no matter where you sit you can see the field.  We are not baseball fans but its a nice time and tickets range in price from $12–50+, so it’s a pretty cheap night out for the Gas Lamp.