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    Best Pizza & Brew Cardiff By The Sea

    4.5 (650 reviews)
    ModeratePizza, Italian, Beer Bar
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:30 pm
    Updated 3 weeks ago

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    Neil P.

    I love Best Pizza & Brew. Moved to Cardiff -by-the-sea over 4 years ago, but lived my summers of 1970-80s in San Diego N. Coastal. Since moving back to Cardiff in 2022 as a 50+ adult, Best P&B had been my local hang. Their Manager Joe Ramsey had befriended me in 2022 as a local. He still remembers my name like Cheers on TV, call my name when I arrive. It's not just Joe, the staff remembers my name too. Over several years, the staff keeps up with what I do and where I am in life. I've noticed it's not just me, they extend the relationship to all repeat customers and recognized locals as if it's a special badge of honor. If you want the neighborhood experience, even if you're not from the neighborhood, they will treat you as such. Did I mention their food is great? Meatball Sandwich is my usual order. Wings for sure when I need the Buffalo Sauce fix (bone in), and Detroit with hot honey is a must. If you're from Detroit, at least verify it's worthy of Detroit style slice by giving it a try. NY style is their usual, by-the-slice and is always a safe bet. Order the whole pie if you're a family. Can't go wrong. But as a Dad of adult children, they like to order their favorites from the by-the-slice to get their favorites. Or, option for another item, salad, fries, sandwich beverage combo. Can't go wrong with their bar food. Can I just say?...You can't go wrong with Best Pizza & Brew for a beach lunch and evening dinner. Add a pint for brew if you want a good local favorite. And if you want a local hang out, this is the place that will remember your name.

    Alisha O.

    Food is delicious as always and pizza is thin and crispy! Service is fast and it was very clean in the restaurant and welcoming. Be back soon!

    Buffalo Chicken, Burrata Hot Honey
    Henry C.

    Got the hot honey burrata slice and was recommended the buffalo chicken slice by Sam. Both were great. Service was quick and friendly. Environment around was great. Shout out to Sam for the recommendation!

    Pepperoni and buffalo chicken
    Brielle H.

    The service is great; everyone was very friendly. The ambiance was lively and pleasant. Seating is an indoor/outdoor hybrid which I personally enjoyed. We ordered some pepperoni and buffalo chicken pizza slices as well as a Caesar salad. The salad was fresh and perfectly dressed, the pizza was good, but not my personal favorite in this specific area given the taste, size and price. That said, if you're looking for a good casual lunch or dinner place with some variety on the menu, I'd definitely recommend Overall a good experience--looking forward to trying the beer they have on tap next time. It looked like a great selection!

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    Carli L.

    Great food and service. They always go above and beyond for customers and the local community. Moose Approves. Erick is the best!

    Thirsty Thursday begins....
    Peter I.

    OK, first of all it's a local place so you get to find all your neighbors and get to know him. Second, the pizza and food is fantastic very local very fresh and great. We had Sam as our server and he was fantastic and Emery was the back up And right there when we needed him at any point. Not only are they pizza and brew, but they have a really good wine selection which we loved, but the best thing I think they had was the brownie and ice cream, which was remarkable. So it's going to become our weekly spot even though I'm the Duke. It's a must go spot.

    Doug B.

    Love this spot but we left dinner feeling a little disappointed tonight. It's not the end of the world obviously so I don't want to give a bad rating but I do think someone should know. I'm confused as to why slices are both $4.75 for a cheese and meat lover when the meat lover is priced higher than a cheese pizza for the full pizza. Shouldn't the cheese slice be a little less than the meat lover slice in that case? Again not a huge deal but we were more disappointed that the cheese slice that we got was the smallest slice I've ever seen, definitely not worth nearly $5 for that. We asked one of the workers and he didn't seem to care much, I get it but it would have been nice to get some kind of validation on this or something other than a " I dunno". I'll back but definitely won't be buying pizza by the slice from here.

    Before Army with future wife and full tummys.
    Armando F.

    This comment is sort of a prelude to en experience! I have an 18 son who is currently visiting from The US Army boot camp. He's got 15Days to do the things on his short, but specific todo list! :in a randomized order... 1. See family Done 2. Have some homemade food! Done 3. GET MARRIED!!! Done. And never the happier! 4. Get his own BBQ Chicken pizza to consume in a normal army chow time! 5-22 are not worth mentioning or just not PG enough. So our window of opportunity happens to be on New Year's Eve to step into San Diego's most Freindly, and hospitable pizza restaurant. We are hoping to see Ximena,,Eric, Zach, Donny,Ze, Cash, Erica, Meg, Stew, Zoe, and I know I'm leaving out people. I Apologise.for doing so! Nonetheless, just thought I would make a note now knowing our experience with Best Pizza and brew has always been five stars and why it's on my Son's to do list!!

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    Hank W.

    While camping at San Elijo, we decided to celebrate a birthday and order five pizzas. Instead of using the app, we walked over to Best Pizza & Brew, to place an order for later. The ordering process was fine friendly service at the register. The pricing felt a bit high however Cardiff is an expensive area and $30 for a pizza seems to be the going rate. In the restaurant there were plenty of smiling employees whirling about doing work. The playlist was a combination of modern pop and classic rock. The TV was playing the Laker game and and Luka Dončić was beginning his career with the Lakers. (Side note: This will begin a new era for the Lakers.) We came back later to pick up our food, five pizzas and garlic knots. The pizzas came out on time, piping hot and ready for transport. We walked them over to our campsite. The pizzas are thin crust and quite tasty. I concur with their high rating on yelp I would not have done anything differently. We fed about a dozen people and they were happy. I'm a picky pizza person and I found this pizza to be quite good. An interesting sidenote, is that, the leftovers were everybit as good if not better than the day we ordered them. To me this seems to speak to the freshness of the ingredients. I find that fresh ingredients often get better with time as they release their flavors and gooo up a bit. There is a competing pizza shop nearby, of which my nephew speaks highly. I will be having a pizza contest within my own family on my next run to San Elijo. I'll keep you updated.

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    Mary K.

    Love the upbeat fun ambience. Great selection of pizza but Corner Pizza and Urbn are better and more in line with NY style. Sauce was a little too salty Nice beer list. My favorite thing on the whole menu though was their signature salad. Absolutely delicious and I ate the whole thing! They also have sandwiches and assorted other appetizers but we didn't try them. Enjoyed the meal here

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    Maritza ..

    We ordered pizza for a potluck and had it delivered to my workplace. It came in timely matter. Let's just say we found out that Detroit pizza is a thick crust and rectangular and small for the cost of 18 dollars per pizza Don't get me wrong, it was delicious, but the cost of two of these cost 45 dollars. The pizza was crutchy and cheese burn edged making it crispy and soft inside. These are definitely more like a personal pizza ora small group of 3 people and not for a group especially a potluck at a workplace. We all said that we want to go to the actual restaurant to try the pizza and get drinks.

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    great service and great food! also we are new to Cardiff and they know our orders when we show up :) it's cool having that kind of community

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