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The Waterfront Bar & Grill is a Little Italy spot ranked #1 of 8 in our Best Dive Bars in San Diego list, scoring 92/100. Order the well drink and the burger. San Diego's oldest bar, holding its ground in the middle of gentrified Little Italy.
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Score 92/100 · Order: Well drink and the burger · $
The Waterfront has been pouring since Prohibition ended and it never got renovated into something else, even as Little Italy turned into a restaurant district around it. The crowd runs from dock workers to condo residents, the drinks are cheap, and the kitchen puts out a better burger than it needs to.
Local tip: The burger is genuinely one of the better cheap burgers downtown — order it.
Scored with our ranking methodology — dive-bars.
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