Cardiff Beach Bar at Tower 13 in Encinitas has anchored Cardiff-by-the-Sea's Restaurant Row since September 2012, operating a scratch kitchen and sports lounge directly across South Coast Highway 101 from lifeguard tower 13 on Cardiff State Beach. The menu centers on gourmet burgers, bone-in chicken wings, and ahi tuna poke alongside Baja-style fish tacos and coconut shrimp, pairing casual beach fare with 27 beers on tap — a craft-beer depth that overlaps with the margarita-and-cerveza program at Las Olas next door on the same Restaurant Row block. Three outdoor patios — two dog-friendly — face the Pacific Ocean and catch the same sunset sightlines that draw diners to Cardiff-by-the-Sea restaurants year-round. Twenty-seven televisions cover the sports-bar side of the operation, and a live-music calendar books local bands on a weekly rotation that gives the 101 corridor an evening entertainment option beyond the tasting-room format at Modern Times Far West Lounge. The Loco-Loca — a house-infused tequila cocktail blending pineapple and coconut with silver tequila — anchors a specialty cocktail program built around tropical-spirit preparations not typically found on standard sports-bar drink menus.