Surf City Billiards — Restaurant in Santa Cruz

Surf City is a special place. With all the small businesses closing during thr pandemic cool places to grab a drink and a bite are becoming more rare. Surf City has a wide variety of entertainment featuring a ping pong table, a photo booth, pinball machines and over ten pool tables, not to mention a vinyl collection of killer records, playing all night. The neighborhood staff is friendly and attentive. The bar is filled with a plethora of unique beers, ciders and frozen spirits and liquors. The food is the hidden gem. From lemon pepper chicken wings to soft shell crab sandwiches to the best jucy Lucy I've had, the mouth-watering food will make you feel right at home. The food is cooked by an ultra-talented chef that clearly puts love into her food. Places with soul are becoming harder to find and Surf City brings people together. Take the negative comments with a grain of salt. Some people's expectations are hard to meet, and sometimes are never met. Go check out Surf City! You'll be...

Fun spot if there's only a few people there, it was like early in the evening 9pm and not many people but wow it took like 20 minutes to order, another 20 to get food, then we wanted to get another round of beers and there was like maybe 10 people in front and we waited for a bit and the line didn't move because they only had one lady working the counter and she clearly needed another person to help but she was also like hanging out with the only other employee and didn't seem to have much of a sense of urgency for the line that was just sitting there.

2 burgers and 2 beers was 52$ also. Burgers were really good though but wow being nearly an hour just to get some burgers and another round of beer.

I can only imagine how bad it would be with an actual crowd on the weekend.

Pool is 12$/hr also,we got mismatched balls which was annoying for our pool game.

I guess can't expect much for a weekday...

Go play pool and have some drinks here. I definitely recommend this all-in-one place and will always return. Their restrooms are always clean. They definitely need more staff because it's always packed, but their food is totally worth it. If you like buffalo wings, go for the ones called "kinda effin hot". They're actually spicy and they taste great. The actual wings aren't so meaty for some reason, but they're extremely addictive! Decent amount of fries in their juicy delicious burger specials. Try their extremely tasty veggie burger too. I don't usually like veggie burgers, but I really loved theirs. Surprisingly, they even have great tasting tacos too with chipotle mayo. All they need is a...