PB Bar & Grill, San Diego

Pacific Beach Bar & Grill has been the San Diego’s favorite beach bar for ages, topping every rankings list year after year. The bar boasts every feature a suntanned reveler could possibly desire. The grill serves up a mammoth menu of fare much better than what most bar kitchens offer, and diners feast out on the sunny garden patio. Club Tremors trembles on weekends with earthquaking beats, attracting slightly better-dressed and collectively better-looking crowds. Almost every day of the week, there’s a different special or promotion, from their ever-popular Sunday brunch, their dirt-cheap Monday sushi, their famed Taco Tuesdays, to their unbeatable Fridays featuring $2 wine, wells and drafts, and a mile-long $2 appetizer list. No other beach bar even comes close. In walking distance from all the other places to see and be seen in Pacific Beach, PB Bar & Grill offers proximity to the ocean (only a block away), good loud music, more than 30 beers on tap and a smoker's haven on the patio. Singles overflow from the smallish, inside bar area to the sprawling, umbrella-dotted patio. At night, Club Tremors opens its doors onto the patio, and PB Bar & Grill patrons can walk right in -- paying no cover. The menu is packed with sandwiches, burgers, authentic Mexican favorites and pastas, as well as dinner specials -- and they do serve a mean plate of fries. Among the dining options in PB, this is as good as it gets -- if you don't mind your date staring past you to the overhead TV set.