Ben And Dina’s guidebook
Food scene
Some of our favorite local food spots
Great Thai restaurant with very modest prices for Malibu.
110 locals recommend
Cholada Thai Beach Cuisine
18763 Pacific Coast HwyGreat Thai restaurant with very modest prices for Malibu.
Happy Hour every week day from 3-9 pm. Located right on the beach. A great place for a quick snack or a sit down meal and sunset views
123 locals recommend
The Sunset Restaurant
6800 Westward Beach RdHappy Hour every week day from 3-9 pm. Located right on the beach. A great place for a quick snack or a sit down meal and sunset views
This place is a little on the pricy side but it is amazing. If you don't want to dine you can always stop in for a drink at the bar or whisky tasting room. It's been here over one hundred years and has an interesting history.
58 locals recommend
Saddle Peak Lodge
419 Cold Canyon RdThis place is a little on the pricy side but it is amazing. If you don't want to dine you can always stop in for a drink at the bar or whisky tasting room. It's been here over one hundred years and has an interesting history.
It's a classic. Right on the ocean teeming with cultural relics from the pioneer days of surfing.
Duke's Malibu
21150 Pacific Coast HighwayIt's a classic. Right on the ocean teeming with cultural relics from the pioneer days of surfing.
Nobu Malibu
22706 Pacific Coast HwyIt's Sushi and fancy
Fun lunchtime spot for fried and fresh seafood. On weekends you'll likely be dining beside a hundred bikers. County line beach (from that Beach Boy's song) is right across the street and is still a popular spot for surfing
122 locals recommend
Neptune's Net
42505 CA-1Fun lunchtime spot for fried and fresh seafood. On weekends you'll likely be dining beside a hundred bikers. County line beach (from that Beach Boy's song) is right across the street and is still a popular spot for surfing
This is also over in Topanga Canyon, a kind of hippy community a couple hilltops over. It's worth checking out.
220 locals recommend
Inn of the Seventh Ray
128 Old Topanga Canyon RdThis is also over in Topanga Canyon, a kind of hippy community a couple hilltops over. It's worth checking out.
This is a beach you have to pay to enter but it is beautiful and is the only beach where you can legally order alcohol and drink on the beach.
267 locals recommend
Paradise Cove Beach Cafe
28128 Pacific Coast HwyThis is a beach you have to pay to enter but it is beautiful and is the only beach where you can legally order alcohol and drink on the beach.
An iconic Malibu restaurant with ocean views. Fantastic fine dining in a vintage California setting
181 locals recommend
Geoffreys
27400 Pacific Coast HwyAn iconic Malibu restaurant with ocean views. Fantastic fine dining in a vintage California setting
Malibu Farm Pier Cafe
23000 Pacific Coast HwySightseeing
Beaches and hiking, and LA filming all around these mountains
You can eat on the pier or just walk it. You'll have great views of surfers at surfrider beach, an iconic wave in surfing history.
23 locals recommend
Malibu Pier
23000 California 1You can eat on the pier or just walk it. You'll have great views of surfers at surfrider beach, an iconic wave in surfing history.
I believe they filmed Castaway on this beach. Really pretty, wild and rocky. Swimming is a little hazardous but it happens.
222 locals recommend
El Matador Beach
32350 Pacific Coast HwyI believe they filmed Castaway on this beach. Really pretty, wild and rocky. Swimming is a little hazardous but it happens.
This place is spectacular. You can do a nice walk around the top if you can find parking or walk up to the cliffs from the state park entrance on the beach. You can often see sea lions, seals and whales migrating up the coast.
103 locals recommend
Point Dume
This place is spectacular. You can do a nice walk around the top if you can find parking or walk up to the cliffs from the state park entrance on the beach. You can often see sea lions, seals and whales migrating up the coast.
This is a very broad beach with miles of sand to walk. Can get crowded in the summer but offers some of the best swimming in Malibu
299 locals recommend
Zuma Beach
This is a very broad beach with miles of sand to walk. Can get crowded in the summer but offers some of the best swimming in Malibu
Leo Carrillo State Beach
35000 Pacific Coast HwyYou can actually see this from the far side of the balcony. It's a very long and beautiful hike that goes for over 60 miles.
Backbone Trail
You can actually see this from the far side of the balcony. It's a very long and beautiful hike that goes for over 60 miles.
One of the most stunning locales in the Santa Monica Mountains, 588-acre King Gillette Ranch offers a rare unspoiled view of California’s rich archaeological, cultural, and historic resources, including a Chumash settlement, and nationally significant structures designed for razor magnate King C. Gillette in the 1920’s by Wallace Neff, architect of California’s Golden Age.
10 locals recommend
King Gillette Ranch
26800 Mulholland HwyOne of the most stunning locales in the Santa Monica Mountains, 588-acre King Gillette Ranch offers a rare unspoiled view of California’s rich archaeological, cultural, and historic resources, including a Chumash settlement, and nationally significant structures designed for razor magnate King C. Gillette in the 1920’s by Wallace Neff, architect of California’s Golden Age.
Paramount Ranch
2903 Cornell RdSee the sets of countless movies
This might be closed to the public now, check before you venture out. This hike leads to a very special cave with a view featuring etchings done by Jim Morrison while he was using LSD.
Corral Canyon Cave
Mesa Peak MotorwayThis might be closed to the public now, check before you venture out. This hike leads to a very special cave with a view featuring etchings done by Jim Morrison while he was using LSD.
This park is quite large and has loads of scenic hikes and picnic spots
151 locals recommend
Malibu Creek State Park
1925 Las Virgenes RoadThis park is quite large and has loads of scenic hikes and picnic spots
This is just up Piuma and offers stunning views of the mountains and Malibu Canyon. You can have a picnic here. But if you keep driving up Piuma past this spot there's a little state park sign on the right hand side with a short hiking trail that will lead you to an even more private and better picnic spot.
Malibu Canyon Overlook
This is just up Piuma and offers stunning views of the mountains and Malibu Canyon. You can have a picnic here. But if you keep driving up Piuma past this spot there's a little state park sign on the right hand side with a short hiking trail that will lead you to an even more private and better picnic spot.
You can do the safari trip or you can just taste wine at the restaurant. It's a fun afternoon and a popular scene on weekends
111 locals recommend
Malibu Wine Safaris
32111 Mulholland HwyYou can do the safari trip or you can just taste wine at the restaurant. It's a fun afternoon and a popular scene on weekends
Neighborhoods
Communities that are about 15-20 minutes away
Malibu
Barbra Streisand lives here
Topanga
Calabasas
Agoura Hills
This is where you'll be staying. The only place of business is the Saddle Peak but while you're driving down Piuma keep an eye out for the ancient oak forests. Some of the oak trees are estimated to be over a thousand years old.
Monte Nido
This is where you'll be staying. The only place of business is the Saddle Peak but while you're driving down Piuma keep an eye out for the ancient oak forests. Some of the oak trees are estimated to be over a thousand years old.