Hodad's Downtown • 1969

Surf-shack chaos meets towering bacon cheeseburgers at this downtown outpost of the Ocean Beach institution born in 1969. License plates and graffiti plaster every inch of wall while third-generation owners Shane and Lexi Hardin sling the same messy, half-pound patties that made the original legendary. The fries come crisp and salty, the locally brewed beers flow cold, and every burger still tastes like a California beach day.