Notorious Sports Bar & Grill on Carlsbad's El Camino Real corridor launched in 2012 as Notorious Burgers, a Prohibition-themed craft burger counter that expanded into a full sports bar in 2025. Half-pound patties are ground fresh daily and cooked to order — a technique that earned the signature Notorious Burger a place on the San Diego Union-Tribune's best-burgers list — anchoring an independent-restaurant stretch of El Camino Real that includes Pizza Port Bressi Ranch to the south. The 2025 expansion added wall-to-wall HD screens, beer-bucket service, and an all-day appetizer menu to the original burger-and-beer format, converting the dining room into a full game-day viewing venue. Beyond the gangster-punned burger lineup — Capone, Big Poppa Bacon, Lucky Luciano Truffle — the kitchen runs a Denver steak plate, Philly cheesesteak, and Dutch bitterballen, a fried-beef-ragu bar snack rarely found outside European pubs. The rotating tap list leans into North County San Diego breweries, building a draft program from the same independent-craft pipeline that supplies Burgeon Beer Company's taproom in the Carlsbad brewing corridor. The kung pao Brussels sprouts toss halved sprouts with peanuts, dried chilies, and applewood bacon in a house kung pao glaze, while the goat-cheese pucks arrive breaded and fried with honey-jalapeño aioli.