Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Huntington Beach from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Huntington Beach
Brightwaters leads the wine story in our guide, and The Brant and Henry's Coastal Cuisine add programs in Pacific City and Huntington Beach.
Brightwaters is an American seafood wine bar in Downtown Huntington Beach with an exceptional wine program and over 250 varietals. The room is sommelier-led, with seafood and flatbreads in a relaxed lounge setting.
The Brant in Pacific City serves coastal California cooking with steakhouse and seafood cues, alongside an extensive wine list. It also brings craft cocktails, and its second-story perch looks over Huntington Beach Pier and the coast.
Henry's Coastal Cuisine in Huntington Beach brings an extensive wine list to an oceanfront coastal seafood room. The menu combines farm-to-table ingredients with live music dinners.
The coast here favours seafood, California cooking, and Mexican rooms, especially around Pacific Coast Highway and the Downtown corridor.
Bluegold sits in Pacific City with modern Californian seafood and floor-to-ceiling windows facing the ocean. The wine list and craft cocktails support a menu built around seafood and farm-to-table dishes.
Fred's Mexican Cafe in Huntington Beach serves California-Mexican food from an oceanfront patio with views of the pier and Pacific. The standard wine program sits alongside cocktails and beer, and the house-made salsas and sauces anchor the room.
Sandbar Cocina y Tequila in Downtown Huntington Beach focuses on modern Mexican cocina with an extensive selection of international tequilas and mezcals. The Main Street strip puts it steps from the pier, and the menu runs a la carte and small plates with craft cocktails.
Downtown Huntington Beach and Pacific City hold the strongest wine-focused dining in our guide. Brightwaters in Downtown Huntington Beach has the city’s exceptional wine program, while The Brant in Pacific City and Henry's Coastal Cuisine in Huntington Beach both have wine lists. Those rooms give the city its clearest wine focus.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Huntington Beach guide. The city has 35 restaurants and 11 bars in our guide, and the dining story here is carried by coastal restaurants, neighbourhood Italian tables, and the strength of individual wine programs.
Brightwaters in Downtown Huntington Beach, The Brant in Pacific City, and Henry's Coastal Cuisine in Huntington Beach are the clearest places to start. Brightwaters has an exceptional wine program, while The Brant and Henry's both have wine lists and coastal cooking.
No venues in our Huntington Beach guide hold Wine Spectator awards. The city’s wine story is led by Brightwaters, which has an exceptional wine program and over 250 varietals, plus the programs at The Brant and Henry's Coastal Cuisine.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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On Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, Nardò brings a contemporary take on Neapolitan pizza tradition to a casual setting with ocean views. The kitchen centers on light, well-leavened dough and quality ingredients, including the signature Nardò Pizza with its stuffed ricotta and pesto crust. It sits at the accessible end of the city's Italian dining options, with a terrace that faces the Pacific.
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BLK Earth Sea Spirits serves contemporary American steak and seafood at Pierside Pavilion, with waterfront terrace seating, an open kitchen, and an extensive wine list with craft cocktails.
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Bluegold sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, positioning itself within the coastal dining corridor that defines Surf City's waterfront scene. The address places it directly in the flow of the Pacific Coast Highway strip, where ocean proximity shapes both menu expectations and atmosphere. For the full Huntington Beach dining picture, see our city guide.
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Brightwaters sits at 180 5th Street in Huntington Beach, positioned where the city's beach-town dining scene meets a more considered approach to the meal. The address places it within walking distance of the pier corridor, where a handful of operators have pushed past the casual surf-and-burger template that defines much of the coast. A reservation here is worth treating as a deliberate evening, not a drop-in.
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Cabo Wabo Beach Club occupies a prime stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, where the beach club format puts surf culture and Southern California coastal dining in direct conversation. The setting along PCH positions it within the broader corridor of oceanfront venues that define this stretch of Orange County's dining scene.
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Capone's Italian Cucina sits along the Beach Boulevard corridor in Huntington Beach, positioning itself within a city better known for Pacific-facing seafood decks than neighborhood Italian. For diners looking for a more settled, cucina-style meal away from the waterfront crowds, it occupies a distinct slot in the local dining mix.
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The menu reads as a deliberate architectural exercise, with charred and clay-oven preparations anchoring a lineup built for the Southern California casual-dining register. For a stretch of coast better known for surf tacos and waterfront seafood, it occupies a distinct lane.
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On Huntington Beach's Main Street restaurant strip, Cucina Alessá occupies a spot where Southern California's beach-town rhythm meets Italian-rooted cooking. The address at 520 Main St places it within easy reach of the pier and the concentrated dining scene that draws visitors and locals alike. It sits in a peer group of neighborhood Italian tables that trade on atmosphere and approachability rather than formal tasting formats.
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On Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, Duke's sits where the surf culture meets casual coastal dining, a long-running fixture that draws regulars as reliably as the tides. The oceanfront setting, Hawaiian-inflected menu, and steady drink program have made it a consistent gathering point for locals and visitors navigating the southern California coast.
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On Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach, Dvine Mediterranean Experience sits at the intersection of coastal California dining and the broader Mediterranean table tradition. The format positions it within a tier of destination restaurants where kitchen, wine, and service are expected to work as a coordinated whole rather than independent parts. It draws comparisons to the collaboration-led dining model gaining ground across Southern California's mid-to-upper dining tier.
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On Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, Fred's Mexican Cafe occupies the kind of beachside perch that regulars claim early and hold for hours. The menu follows the familiar architecture of Southern California Mexican dining, with the ocean as a constant backdrop. It sits among a cluster of PCH destinations that draw both locals and visitors looking for a reliable coastal feed.
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On Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach, Heirloom a Modern Farmhouse brings a farm-to-table sensibility to Orange County's surf-and-casual dining culture. The menu architecture leans on seasonal, ingredient-led cooking in a setting that reads warmer and more considered than the coastal strip around it. It occupies a tier above the beach-shack default without reaching for white-tablecloth formality.
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Henry's Coastal Cuisine sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, where the coastal dining scene runs from casual surf-adjacent spots to more considered seafood-forward rooms. Positioned along one of Southern California's most travelled oceanside corridors, it occupies the mid-tier of a competitive local market that includes Pacific-facing competitors drawing on the same sun, salt, and seasonal produce.
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Positioned on Pacific Coast Highway at suite 220, Jolie occupies one of Huntington Beach's most coveted coastal addresses, placing it within the city's growing tier of destination dining. Where the beach city once leaned heavily on casual surf-culture eats, a newer wave of more considered restaurants has taken root along the PCH corridor, and Jolie sits squarely in that shift.
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Lōrea sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, occupying a stretch of Southern California coastline where the dining register has been rising steadily. The address places it in direct conversation with the city's better-regarded tables, at a point where ocean-facing dining in Orange County has started to develop genuine culinary ambition beyond the casual surf-town default.
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Lot 579 sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, where the coastal dining strip runs between beach culture and a growing restaurant scene. See our full Huntington Beach guide for context on where it sits relative to the surrounding options along this stretch of the California coast.
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On a Main Street block that tilts heavily toward surf-casual and beach bar formats, Mama on Main Thai House brings a regional Thai perspective to Huntington Beach's dining corridor. The address at 301 Main St places it within walking distance of the pier and the concentrated dining stretch that draws both locals and visitors year-round. For those tracking where Southern California's Thai cooking fits within the broader Pacific Rim food conversation, this is a useful stop.
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Market Broiler Huntington on Brookhurst Street sits within Huntington Beach's casual-to-mid-range seafood corridor, where grilled fish and direct preparation define the category. The format skews toward accessible family dining rather than the chef-driven coastal concepts opening further up the coast. For a read on how it fits the broader local scene, the EP Club Huntington Beach guide covers the full competitive set.
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Positioned on Pacific Coast Highway at the second level of a mixed-use development, Ola Mexican Kitchen brings regional Mexican cooking to Huntington Beach's coastal dining corridor. The kitchen works within a scene where oceanfront tables and casual California formats dominate, making a more considered approach to Mexican cuisine a useful counterpoint for visitors tracking substance over spectacle.
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A Greek-American neighborhood staple on Magnolia Street in Huntington Beach, Ouzo & Feta draws a loyal local crowd with the kind of consistency that earns repeat visits rather than one-time curiosity. The name signals the menu's orientation: Greek classics, approachable format, and a room that rewards regulars over tourists. Find it at 19171 Magnolia St, Suite 1.
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Positioned on Pacific Coast Highway at the heart of Huntington Beach's surf-and-shore corridor, Pacific Hideaway occupies a space where the design does much of the storytelling.
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Pete's Sunset Grille occupies a prime stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, where the road runs close enough to the water that golden-hour light fills the dining room without effort. The address alone positions it within the coastal dining corridor that defines the city's restaurant identity, alongside spots like Bluegold and BLK Earth Sea Spirits.
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Sitting directly on Pacific Coast Highway at the edge of the surf zone, Kimpton Shorebreak Hotel carries a 2025 Michelin Selected designation and positions itself as Huntington Beach's most surf-adjacent design property. The architecture and interiors read as a deliberate translation of coastal California culture into a hotel format, placing it in a distinct tier among Orange County's oceanfront options.
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Positioned directly on Pacific Coast Highway adjacent to the Huntington Beach Pier, Paséa Hotel & Spa occupies among the more direct ocean-facing addresses on the Southern California coast. The property's design reads as a considered translation of coastal California aesthetics into hotel form, and its wine program earned Star Wine List recognition in 2026. For travellers prioritising genuine beach proximity over resort-campus scale, it sits in a distinct tier of the Southern California hotel market.
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Calico Fish House sits along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, where the surf-city backdrop meets a bar program that takes coastal drinking seriously. The address at 16600 PCH places it squarely in a stretch where the ocean is the dominant reference point, and the drink-making reflects that setting with more intention than the average beach-town pour.
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Captain Jack's sits on Pacific Coast Highway at Sunset Beach, where the southern edge of Huntington Beach meets open water and the crowd skews local over tourist. The venue occupies a stretch of coastline that rewards visitors who come for the setting as much as the food and drink. For Huntington Beach's bar and dining scene, it represents the casual, place-rooted end of the spectrum.
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A fixture on Huntington Beach's 5th Street, Cruisers Pizza Bar Grill occupies the kind of corner that beach towns build their social calendars around. Pizza, cold drinks, and a crowd that spans locals, surfers, and visitors who quickly figure out why the regulars keep coming back. The address at 210 5th St puts it a short walk from the pier and the Pacific Coast Highway strip.
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Four Sons Brewing occupies a production-scale space on Gothard Street in Huntington Beach, where the industrial bones of a working brewery set the stage for a food-and-beer pairing program that sits comfortably outside the city's beach-strip mainstream. The brewery format places craft beer at the center of the experience, with kitchen output designed to extend the session rather than compete with it.
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Harbor House Café sits on Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach, at the quieter northern edge of the Huntington Beach coastline. The address alone signals something: a stretch of Highway 1 where the resort density thins and the Pacific gets a little more room to breathe. For visitors who find downtown Huntington Beach's surf-bar corridor too loud, this is the coastal alternative worth knowing.
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Old World Biergarten Restaurant & Bar on Center Avenue brings a Central European beer-hall sensibility to inland Huntington Beach, pairing a communal drinking format with a food program rooted in ingredient sourcing traditions more common in German and Austrian tavern culture. The result is a casual but considered venue that sits apart from the seafood-forward options dominating the city's coastal strip.
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Perqs sits on the second floor of 117 Main St in Huntington Beach's pier-adjacent corridor, positioning it a step removed from the ground-level beach bar circuit that dominates the strip. The address places it firmly in the intentional-visit category within the Main Street scene. For current hours, pricing, and format details, local listings are one reliable source before visiting.
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Red Table Restaurant sits on Algonquin Street in Huntington Beach, occupying a stretch of the city where neighborhood dining and coastal California informality converge. The restaurant draws regulars who treat the meal as an occasion rather than a transaction, with a pace and setting that reward those willing to slow down. For visitors working through the city's dining options, it represents a local fixture worth understanding on its own terms.
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On Pacific Coast Highway with the salt air of Huntington Beach at its back, Riip Beer Co. occupies a stretch of Southern California's coastal bar corridor where craft beer and ocean proximity do most of the talking. The venue's address places it squarely in the beach-town drinking culture that defines this part of Orange County, where the menu structure and tap list tend to reflect the rhythm of the coastline as much as any brewing philosophy.
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A Main Street fixture in Huntington Beach's surf-driven dining corridor, Sugar Shack Cafe sits steps from the pier in a neighborhood where salt air and morning crowds define the rhythm. The cafe trades in the kind of casual, daylight-hours eating that Surf City's beach culture has sustained for decades. For visitors orienting themselves to the area's dining scene, it represents a practical and atmospheric starting point.
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