First · Coffee
Lofty Coffee
Encinitas · Coast Hwy 101
$20 / coffee + pastries
For Lena & Marco · Encinitas
A coastal day off
A weekday stolen back, twenty minutes up the coast. Coffee in the morning sun, a quiet hour in the Meditation Gardens, a long lunch, and sand under your feet by sunset.
- a weekday off
- Encinitas
- 10am – sunset
Just because
Steal a Tuesday.
- 10:00AM
- 11:00AM
Then · A quiet hour
Meditation Gardens
Self-Realization Fellowship · W K St
- 12:30PM
Lunch · No rush
The Plot
Encinitas · Coast Hwy 101
$70 / lunch for two
- 5:30PM
Then home — the long way.
Why this night
You said the two of you are better in daylight — that your best conversations happen on walks, not over late dinners. So this one runs ten to sunset on a Tuesday, while everyone else is at work. The gardens are the kind of quiet you can't schedule on a weekend, lunch has no second seating breathing down your neck, and the day ends barefoot, not at valet.
Don't forget the small things
Book the Tuesday off now
The day exists once it's on both calendars. Everything else can move.
A blanket in the trunk
Moonlight Beach at sunset is the whole finale. The sand gets cool fast.
Gardens close at 5
They're a morning place anyway — quietest before noon, closed Mondays.
A weekday off in Encinitas — coffee, the Meditation Gardens, a long lunch, and sunset at Moonlight Beach. Daylight, not dinner reservations.
Your turn
Daylight is underrated.
Tell us what a day off looks like for you two, and we'll build it — the quiet hour, the long lunch, the sand at the end.
No account needed to start. Two minutes.