Belly Up Tavern at 143 South Cedros Avenue in Encinitas's Solana Beach district is San Diego's most-awarded live music venue, a 600-capacity converted Quonset hut in the Cedros Design District that has hosted live concerts seven nights a week since 1974. The stage has held the Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Erykah Badu, George Thorogood, Cheap Trick, the Black Keys, Jack Johnson, Khruangbin, Ziggy Marley, and hundreds of touring acts across rock, reggae, blues, country, hip-hop, comedy, and EDM — an artist roster that earned the venue repeated “Best Live Music Venue in San Diego” awards and 86,000-plus followers on its concert calendar. General admission floor seating and raised side sections keep every sightline within arm's reach of the performers, a layout that makes Belly Up the go-to alternative to arena-scale shows for North County San Diego concertgoers. The adjoining Tavern restaurant on Cedros Avenue serves lunch and dinner with patio seating and a full bar, giving ticket holders a pre-show dining option steps from the venue entrance — a dinner-and-a-show pairing that also draws locals to Pacific Coast Grill for ocean-view cocktails before the drive to Cedros. Comedy nights, happy hour acoustic sets, and themed dance parties fill the calendar between headline concerts, and the venue shares Encinitas's performing arts corridor with La Paloma Theatre, the 1928 single-screen cinema on South Coast Highway 101. Free parking surrounds the Cedros Design District, the Solana Beach Amtrak/Coaster station sits within walking distance, and Fletcher Cove Beach is a five-minute walk west — making Belly Up the anchor of a full evening out in coastal North County San Diego.