San Diego Burger appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Hodad's San Diego beach burger · San Diego
Ocean Beach's seven-decade beach-shack burger: a smashed-thin beef patty (or stack), American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, raw onion and a generous heap of crisp bacon, on a soft white bun the size of your face.
Hodad's opened in 1969 in Ocean Beach as a counter-service burger stand and has run from a Newport Avenue location with surfboards on the walls since the early 1990s. The flagship's bacon cheeseburger was canonised by Guy Fieri's Diners Drive-Ins and Dives in 2007 and remains the OB burger benchmark. The 'mini-Hodad' single patty is the canonical small order; the double-double-bacon is the cardiac challenger. Hodad's now operates Ocean Beach plus a downtown Broadway location.
Where to eat in San Diego:
- Hodad's