Certified as a Surfrider Foundation Ocean Friendly Restaurant, OB Surf Lodge opened in 2017 inside Suite 1F at 5083 Santa Monica Ave with sightlines straight onto the OB Pier. The from-scratch brunch menu — chicken-fried steak with mushroom-sausage gravy, crab Benedict, stuffed French toast, pesto baked eggs — runs alongside cold brew flights that overlap the morning trade with nearby Newbreak Coffee & Cafe. A Monday-through-Friday late-afternoon happy hour runs draft beers, house wine, well cocktails, and Mai Tais alongside happy-hour-only machaca fries and short-rib flatbread plates on the dog-friendly patio with raised front windows that face the Abbott Street boardwalk. A 24-tap rotation of San Diego craft beers anchors the bar, drawing from the same Voltaire corridor that hosts Mike Hess Brewing Ocean Beach's OB tasting room, and supports a full event program covering weddings, corporate gatherings, and private parties. The divisible Pier-view floor plan lets the full venue split for rehearsal dinners or be booked end-to-end for wedding receptions catered out of the same Surfrider-certified scratch kitchen.