Masters Kitchen and Cocktail is among the finest restaurants in Oceanside, California. Located on Pacific Coast Highway in downtown Oceanside, the restaurant made its home in the old Masters machine shop originally founded in 1952. With the beautiful, original wood-beam ceiling and brick walls uncovered, Masters is a unique mix of old-meets-new.
The beautiful 100' x 28' mural on the building's south wall is a whimsical tribute to early twentieth century bootleggers and their Rube Golberg-style moonshine-still, set in an imaginary Oceanside past. A Model-T flatbed truck is loaded with the prime booty of a week’s hard work, protected by a shotgun yielding 'shiner and his beach-billy compatriots.
To differentiate them from their moonshining brethren in the hills of Kentucky, "the Masters boys" wear aloha shirts, playing ukeleles and bongos (instead of banjos and jaw harps).
Rounding out the narrative, period redwood longboards lean against the moonshine shack, calling to the beach billies for a much needed dunk in the ocean with a tasty south swell.