Board & Brew in Encinitas's New Encinitas district is a franchise location of the sandwich chain that Tom Powers founded in Del Mar in 1979, now operated by the Encinitas-based Blacktop Restaurant Group. All meats are roasted and sliced in-house each morning, and the organic chicken is never frozen, producing signature builds like the Turkado and Left Coast Pastrami alongside a cult-following Secret Sauce that the chain formulates as vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free — a scratch-made approach in the same shopping center as Trader Joe's at El Camino Real and Encinitas Boulevard. The brand has expanded to over thirty locations across California and Arizona since its Del Mar founding, including an upcoming downtown San Diego outpost at the RaDD development. Local craft beers rotate on tap alongside the sandwich menu, offering a counter-service beer-and-sandwich format distinct from the sit-down sandwich builds at Mendocino Farms on the same corridor. Bread is baked off-site and delivered fresh each morning, then sliced to order for sourdough, wheat, and Dutch crunch builds stacked with meats carved from whole roasts broken down at each individual location.