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25 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 25 Restaurants
Garnet Avenue beach-town dining with a serious sushi counter, an anchor fish house, and a tiki bar scene that runs from boardwalk to sports bar
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1
Sushi Ota
Japanese / Sushi / Omakase
Chef Yukito Ota's Pacific Beach sushi counter — in a strip mall off Mission Bay Dr, quietly one of the most respected sushi programs on the West Coast for 30+ years. Counter omakas...
92
2
The Fishery
Seafood
Part fish market, part restaurant — a Pacific Beach institution since 1979. Walk in for a whole fish to take home; sit down for a dinner from the same case. Fresh catch of the day ...
87
3
JRDN at Tower23
Contemporary American / Seafood
At the Tower23 boutique hotel — Pacific Beach's ocean-view fine-dining spot, with the boardwalk traffic below and the sunset straight through the window. The PB special-occasion re...
86
4
The Grass Skirt
Tiki / Cocktail Bar
CH Projects' Pacific Beach speakeasy-tiki — entered through a poke shop front, a back-room tiki den with cocktails in volcano bowls, and a format that reads as SD's most-serious ti...
86
5
Rocky's Crown Pub
American / Burgers
Pacific Beach's dive-bar burger destination — one thing on the menu in any real sense (the cheeseburger), cash-friendly, no-frills, and a reputation that reaches well outside SD. T...
85
6
Kono's Cafe
American / Breakfast
Pacific Beach's surf-culture breakfast counter at the base of Crystal Pier — the Kono's breakfast burrito became SoCal surf-breakfast shorthand, and the morning line down the board...
85
7
Isabel's Cantina
Pan-Asian / Latin
Chef Isabel Cruz's Pacific Beach flagship — a Pan-Asian-meets-Latin breakfast menu with a coconut French toast that defined SD brunch ambition, a Felspar St dining room that reads ...
85
8
Lamont Street Grill
American / Creole / Cajun
Pacific Beach's fireside garden-patio Creole-Cajun since 1985 — crab cakes, blackened fish, and a back-patio garden with outdoor fireplaces that makes Lamont Street feel transplant...
85
9
World Famous
Seafood / American / Breakfast
PB's boardwalk-facing breakfast-and-seafood spot — lobster eggs benedict, fish tacos, and a patio that puts the Pacific on the table. A tourist address that locals still return to ...
84
10
Duck Dive
American / Gastropub
Pacific Beach's chef-driven gastropub — Mission Blvd corner with a serious cocktail bar, weekend brunch line, and the kind of elevated bar food that raised the ceiling on what PB w...
84
All 25 Restaurants in Pacific Beach
Better Buzz Coffee — Pacific Beach
Coffee / Cafe
84
Pacific Beach Fish Shop
Seafood / Casual
83
Broken Yolk Cafe — Pacific Beach
American / Breakfast
83
Costa Brava Spanish Tapas
Spanish / Tapas
83
Backyard Kitchen & Tap
American / Gastropub
83
PB AleHouse
American / Gastropub
82
Cass Street Bar & Grill
American / Bar / Burgers
82
Rubio's Coastal Grill — Mission Bay
Mexican / Fast Casual
82
The Local Eatery & Drinking Hole — Pacific Beach
American / Bar
82
Moonshine Beach
Country Bar
73
710 Beach Club
Live Music Venue
72
Mavericks Beach Club
Nightclub
71
Tavern at the Beach
Dive Bar
70
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