The Beachcomber at Malibu Pier

Parking: Paid Lot, Street Parking Difficult
Scenic View, Catering, Take Out, Live Music, Outdoor Dining, Water View Laid Back Casual, Outdoor Dining Outdoor Seating, Wheelchair Accessible

Perched on the Malibu Pier next to Surfrider Beach, The Beachcomber recaptures the glamour of the pier’s heyday in the mid-1940s. It’s hard to choose where to sit: in the sharp indoor dining room with Kelly green booths, vintage surf photos, and a view of boarders bobbing in the waves, or on the weathered-plank patio where you can hear the swells break on the shore. In either spot, the ocean air will surely boost your appetite for a breakfast of macadamia pancakes, a lunch of the filet mignon Cobb salad, or a fresh seafood dinner of ridge back swordfish with kona konpachi. The best time to come may be for a sunset cocktail. Watch the sun slip into the horizon while sipping a Royal Hawaiian and listening to big band jazz (live music on Sunday nights), and you’ll be transported to a time before Malibu beaches became a war zone for celebrity paparazzi.

TIPS: The tiki-themed Tonga Lei Room, adjacent to the bar, has a semi-private circular booth for 12 (complete with lazy Susan) that can be reserved. Instead of jockeying for a parking space with the longboard set, grab a spot at the pier’s parking lot, $4 with validation from the restaurant.

— Rachel Levin

 

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