San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour

The Best Hot Dogs in San Diego


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It is now time, when hot dogs become communion wafers once again. The weather is Joe Musgrove's elbow. The Fernando Tatis baseball dance-swagger reenters. He is the most exciting right fielder in the history of the game, almost appearing on every play as if he has no idea to execute the task in front of him—until he defies gravity and pulls a baseball out of the the beginning of space, then throws a 600 mile per hour strike to catch someone trying to steal. And for this episode of Happy Half Hour, we take the "Bebemos Golden Hour" tour into a Padres pregame classic—Bub's at the Ballpark. It started with Todd Brown moving to San Diego in a Winnebago, selling his wings at a gas station in Oceanside. Eventually he opened Bub's Dive Bar in Pacific Beach. Most of us leave PB when we're 28—when we look around at all the new ab muscles and feel like a senior citizen—but Todd and his wife stayed for 25 years and still own Waterbar in the 'hood. They opened this second offshoot in the historic Simon Levy building next to Petco Park in 2011. And every game day, it is a scene. The Animal House of baseball joy. They've got tots and they've got kale. They have Steakums on the menu. Steakums, bless. It's like a bald eagle with a heart of a Ford F150. Every reasonably American ballpark has a place like this… a big, durable playground lacquered within an inch of its life to protect us from our excitable spillage. Its soul is Budweiser, but they've got everything on tap except pretension. On March 25, Tony Gwynn Jr. will come to Bub's to hang with the Padres people, and kick off his new partnership with San Diego's upstart tequila people, Bebemos. Tony's sharing his family's recipe for a pineapple margarita that doesn't taste like a glass of insulin. Nearly an agua fresca. Co-hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant, Bebemos co-founder Preston, and Todd debate the greatest baseball food from restaurants across the city. That is to say, the best hot dogs—from Doggos Gus to Lefty's to Nason's Beer Hall to some random, open-all-night place Jackie found in downtown—plus some nachos and ice cream. Play ball.

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