Our Story

This building, located at 2743 Shelter Island Drive, was built in 1960. Prior to being a building it was a gravel lot that rented small sail boats for use on the harbor.
Two Point Loma brothers and a friend built the current building as a night club in 1960 as Shelter Island was being developed. The night club was called The Beach Boy and was painted bright gold. It was a big hit in the area. Eventually the brothers and friend matured out of the type of lifestyle one associates with night clubs and sold the business.

From 1965 to about 1968 or 1969 this building operated as strip/burlesque club, the name of which no one can seem to remember. Although strip/burlesque clubs had been in San Diego for decades, this location was unique in one particular regard. It was the first such place in San Diego to combine burlesque with a kitchen. Burgers and boobies, quite the ground breaking and dubious honor. It is believed that that type of business was zoned out of the area and that business either moved or folded up shop.

From 1968 or so to 2008 the building was a Boll Weevil Restaurant. The Boll Weevil was the product of the Halleman family. The Halleman family had a restaurant called The Cotton Patch on Midway, the current location of Paradise Lounge. They cut and trimmed their own meat and eventually opened up The Boll Weevil as a burger stand next to the restaurant to make use of the leftover trimmings of meat. As it turns out, the burger stand became more popular than the restaurant and the owners expanded on this success. This location was the first expansion and restaurant that was the Boll Weevil. The Boll Weevil expanded across San Diego County and franchised to a total of fifteen locations at one point. Eventually the family owned corporation went bankrupt in 2008. However, some of the franchisees were still solvent and there are a few still operating in the county to this day.

Point Break was the original concept of owner/operator Kevin Lewis.The name is an entendre meaning Point, as in Point Loma; Break, as in breakfast, one of our specialties; and Point Break, a surfing term, the owner has been an avid surfer and ocean enthusiast since he was a child. Hence, the name Point Break is a triple entendre. Point Break opened in 2004, one block away from its current location, at what is now The Wine Pub. In its original iteration Point Break only served breakfast and lunch. It was open seven days a week and closed at 3 pm everyday. Breakfast was, and still is, served all day.

The concept was an immediate success and Point Break quickly became known as the best breakfast in the greater Shelter Island area. The business operated successfully at that location for several years. Unfortunately, the original landlord of that location, Union Bank, sold the property. The sinister despots that bought the property proceeded to dance with cloven hooves in ignominous glory* upon the souls and livelihoods of long standing tenents producing their, apparently, intended affect of having renters vacating the building in droves. Thusly, in this miasmic environment the owner decided it would be best to move the location of the restaurant, in the middle of the worst recession since The Great Depression, rather than deal with the insidious reprobates now lording over the property as the petty satraps they were so keenly wanton to be.

Point Break relocted and opened here in April of 2009 and has been operating here continuously ever since. Upon moving here Point Break opened for dinner and no longer closes at 3 pm. Now it does equal business in breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is still known as the best breakfast in the area and breakfast is still served everyday until 3 pm. In 2020, after years of navigating the Kafkaesque labrynth of California’s business loathing bureaucracy, Point Break eventually obtained its full liquor license and now has the pleasure of serving all our customers great food and drinks in a fun, casual, laidback environment with a unique and colorful history.