Best Pizza & Brew Cardiff By The Sea — Restaurant in Encinitas

If you enjoyed this review or found it helpful please hit the like button. My buddy and I sell steak, seafood and chicken off a truck, all over Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. We hit every dive bar and greasy spoon along the way and I enjoy sharing them with you. Perched on a bluff overlooking the bright blue Pacific Ocean in Cardiff by the Sea sits a restaurant bold enough to call themselves "Best Pizza and Brew." It sits right on the coast highway and there is plenty of safe parking, indoor seats, and bar seating. They also have patio and tent dining. The vibe and the tunes are laid back and happy, it feels like I am eating on the beach, the staff and customers are happy and friendly everyone is casually dressed most in beach attire. Best pizza and beer though? Beer and pizza are specialties of mine with decades of research on both. I went with pepperoni and sausage slices and a fresh IPA. The combination of the festive mood, crisp hoppy beer and New York style thin crust were near perfect. To me a pizza really starts with the crust and these guys are on point. The beer and pizza slices ran me $15 and that is about right. Best Pizza and Beer is a bold statement and these guys clearly stand by that. I will return...

Cardiff is one the best little beach side communities in all of California. Yet they have 3 of the worst pizza spots you'll find. At least "Best Pizza & Brew" has Great Beer options and the service is fantastic and friendly. The location is 10 outta 10. But my gawd, the pizza is Horrendous. This and Besta Wan and East Coast pizza are all within a 2 minute walk from one another and guess what. They are all TRASH pizza. Why oh why is it so hard to get Good Pizza in San Diego County. It's almost unbelievable how few good Pizza spots there are. They are all that nasty sauce with Way Way Way too much cheese and the dough is just that, DOUGHIE. Yes I have been spoiled with amazing NY, MA, CT pizza most my life. But holy schnikies, San Diego get it together! Please, someone out there direct me to the good new york, new haven or Boston bar pie style pizza... I miss it so much. Anyways, I really love this place and the atmosphere but the pizza is truly gross. I hope management will try some new ways or watch some tutorials on how to improve their recipes. I will be back but NOT for pizza. Just for the vibes and the beer and the atmosphere. But this...

Walked in to pick up a doordash that had been placed well in advance. I tell the guy at the counter the name for the order and he looks around at his tickets and says he doesn't see an order for that name and that he'll go talk to his manager. The "manager" comes over and the mess around with a tablet that is out of battery and then he asks me to see the order off of my phone so he can put it through. Then proceeds to tell me that it will be 30-45 min if I want to wait for it. Not only did they lose the order since the staff is too incompetent to keep a tablet plugged in to tell them when they get a doordash order, but the manager does nothing to make the situation right for the customer? It's a minor pain for me, but what about the guy who ordered food and had to wait another hour because this place just lost his order and didn't feel the need to expedite it once they found it? Pretty poor customer service...