National Trust for Historic Preservation-recognized Bali Hai Restaurant on Shelter Island, Point Loma, San Diego has been serving Polynesian cuisine since 1954 — making it one of the oldest continuously operating tiki restaurants in the United States, now under third-generation family ownership. The Polynesian-seafood menu runs from coconut shrimp and lobster wontons to Szechwan-peppered ribeye, a surf-and-turf range broader than the raw-bar focus at Brigantine Seafood & Oyster Bar across the Shelter Island marina. A 16-foot carved-wood sculpture of Mr. Bali Hai — the restaurant's tiki mascot since the 1950s — greets diners beneath the original "Goof" figure still mounted on the rooftop, two mid-century Polynesian artifacts that survived a full 2010 interior renovation. The private boat dock allows marina guests to tie up and walk directly into the dining room, a dock-and-dine format shared with the waterfront patio at Ketch Grill and Taps farther down Shelter Island Drive. Full-venue event buyouts scale across the main dining room, the Hawaiian Village pavilion, and the bayfront terrace for large-format seated dinners overlooking San Diego Bay and the downtown skyline.