A 1910 Ulysses S. Grant memorial hotel that has hosted every President since Wilson. The Grant Grill is downtown's most enduring power lunch venue.
The US Grant Hotel opened in 1910, built by Ulysses S. Grant Jr. as a memorial to his father, and has been operating continuously as a luxury hotel for over a century — the longest-running luxury hotel in San Diego. The building's Italian Renaissance exterior on Broadway anchors the Gaslamp Quarter's western edge, and the hotel has maintained its historic grandeur through three ownership changes and six major renovations.
The 270 rooms are distributed across the original building and have been restored to period-appropriate luxury in the most recent 2006 renovation. The upper-floor suites retain original architectural details — coffered ceilings, ornate plasterwork, and the proportions of a 1910 grand hotel. The Presidential Suite, on the top floor, has hosted 14 sitting presidents.
The Grant Grill, the hotel's signature restaurant since 1951, serves a California cuisine menu in a dining room that is the most civilised lunch venue in downtown San Diego. The Grant Grill Lounge is where the city's legal and business community has conducted its informal meetings for 70 years. The hotel's central Broadway location makes it the most accessible downtown hotel to the Convention Center, the Gaslamp, and the waterfront.
The Grant Grill's power lunch tradition, the hotel's Century of presidential hospitality, and the Broadway location — a short walk from the Convention Center and the Gaslamp Quarter's business hotel infrastructure — make the US Grant the most historically appropriate business entertainment hotel in downtown San Diego. See all business hotels →
An anniversary at the US Grant is an anniversary in San Diego history — the 1910 building, the Grant Grill, and the century of occasion management give the stay a narrative dimension that the Pendry and other newer Gaslamp properties cannot acquire. The Presidential Suite has the most dramatic ceiling in any San Diego hotel room. See all anniversary hotels →
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