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The Wise Ox Butcher & Deli

North Park, San Diego · Deli · $$

The Wise Ox is a working butcher counter first - the kind of place keeping old-school meat-cutting alive - that also happens to grill a Philly cheesesteak and a double cheeseburger good enough to draw lines with no seating to sit in. Order at the counter, wait the fifteen minutes it takes to do it right, and eat standing at the outdoor bar stools while the smoked meats case behind you does its own advertising.