San Diego Reader

• Bar/Club
• Restaurant | American | Solana Beach

Chief's Burgers and Brew

• 124 Lomas Santa Fe Drive #108, Solana Beach, CA 92075 | Directions
• 858-755-2599 | Website

No doubt the place gets rowdy when the Broncos are playing and every blessed one of the TVs is showing the game, but at other times, the place has a proper low-key North County beach-town vibe, tweaked by the kid-friendly picnic tables to the right of the bar. The burger is broad, like a kiddie pool, and almost as wet in the center. Actually, the center is where everything works best — the cool shred of the lettuce against the warm chew of the burger against the bold strength of the white onion, all shrouded in the white thickness of a toasted bun. At the edges, things are drier and more disparate.

— Ambrose Martin