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3 burgers places in San Diego we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in San Diego | Burgers across every city.

The San Diego burger conversation starts at the beach. Hodad's in Ocean Beach is the city's signature burger room, a counter built around big, messy patties and a long-standing surf-shack identity. Polite Provisions in North Park puts a cocktail-bar spin on the form for a later crowd.

Hodad's ★ 4.4

$$BurgersOcean Beach

Hodad's in Ocean Beach is the 1969 Newport Avenue burger shack with surfboards on the walls, the Guy Fieri Diners Drive-Ins and Dives stop and the canonical.

OrderThe Double Bacon Cheeseburger with the works.

TipThe line moves; queue at the side door for takeout. Park your car blocks away on weekends, Newport Avenue fills up.

Polite Provisions ★ 4.5

$$BurgersNorth Park

Polite Provisions on 30th Street in San Diego's Normal Heights, the apothecary cocktail room with classic cocktails on tap and Soda Bar burgers until last.

OrderHouse-made sodas, classic cocktails on tap, soda bar burgers

Hodad's ★ 4.4

$BurgersOcean Beach

Hodad's on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, San Diego, the 1969 surf-shack burger counter where the single Hodad runs under twelve and the bacon cheeseburger.

OrderBacon cheeseburger, single Hodad burger under $12

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