Restaurant Name: Hodad's
Cusine: American, burgers
Location: Ocean Beach, San Diego, California
Company: Quinn, Kato, Raymond, and Skinny Kevin!
Overall Experience: FOOD COMA (:





The decor was entertaining and interesting. As we waited for our server, our eyes scattered across the room, intrigued by the variety of state license plates and their clever sayings. It had a very surfer/chill ambience ambience (am I allowed to use this word to describe places that are not super nice? ohwells..I WILL!)





We decided to order "Frings" which are fries (wedge fries) and onion rights. The onion rings were good, but I felt that the batter was a bit dense. I prefer a lighter and fluffier batter like that from Umami burger which uses tempura bread crumbs. However, I felt that Hodad's onion rings represented the typical American heavily-battered onion rings, like those that you find at Phil's BBQ not too far away. The wedge fries were delicious! Nothing special about them, but the outside was outstanding-ly crispy and perfectly fried while the insides were just the right texture. Soft, but not overcooked that it just destroyed in your mouth.





This is the burger that I came for. It was featured on Guy Fieri's show, "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" as well as another Food Network show, "The Best Thing I Ever Ate," on the bacon episode. The hamburger patty was flavorful and delectable. The cheese was a bit overwhelming for me. I have been spoiled by top-notch cheeses and felt like the cheese used on the burger was just an ordinary piece of cheese. This is actually the reason why I typically order just a plain hamburger in contrast to a cheeseburger. I just feel that there are much more effective and better uses of cheese. The bacon definitely made the burger delicious. You know what Guy is talking about in your first bite. While the other components of the hamburger, like the bun, patty, veggies, etc, are typical and nothing too extraordinary, the bacon is absolutely crispy and perfectly done to add that special, salty, bacon-y crunch that every bacon cheeseburger should embody. Hodad's definitely knocked this one out of the park. However, one thing to mention about their burger is that without the bacon, I do not think that the burger would have been as delicious. The patty was better, but not remarkably. The vegetables were typical, if not a bit excessive. Yet, Hodad's bacon cheeseburger was delicious and definitely worth repeat trips.






Skinny Kevin and I split a strawberry and vanilla milkshake which was super yummy! As you can see from the picture, the shake was inundated with ice cream (delicious of course!). It was bit on the sweeter side, yet what shake is not? The ice cream was delicious and made the shake a very nice refreshing way to end the night and meal (:


Hodad's was an interesting place. We arrived around 7:30pm on a Tuesday night and had to probably wait about half an hour (CRAZY!) But it was worth the wait and made for quite and interesting experience. The meal was eaten with an appetite mustered playing tennis, the "frings," burger, and shake were eaten with much joy. Although half way through the burger, my marginal utility dropped significantly, it cannot go without say that I had still gained a considerable amount of utility in my last bite.