When a milkshake becomes so legendary that people plan entire road trips around a single sip, you know something magical is happening behind that counter.
Hodad’s Ocean Beach in San Diego has achieved the impossible: creating a chocolate malt shake that makes grown adults reconsider their life priorities and question every other shake they’ve ever consumed.
This isn’t some fancy ice cream parlor where you pay premium prices for artisanal ingredients with unpronounceable names – it’s a burger joint that happens to serve liquid perfection.
Walking into Hodad’s feels like stepping into a time capsule that someone filled with every cool thing that ever existed, then decided to serve incredible food as a bonus…