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.

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Hodad's ★ 4.4

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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.

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