Surf City Nights

This is the largest farmer’s market I’ve been too. There are a lot of vendors. They even have a little petting zoo and jumpers for kids to play at. They have your typical farmer’s market food vendors, such as bacon wrapped hot dogs, tacos, burritos, tamales, pupusas and roasted corn. I’ve tried the pupusas and it’s really good. The tamales are good too, but I’ve had better at another farmer’s market. The roasted corn was ok. The freshly cooked roasted cinnamon and vanilla glazed nuts is really delicious. Overall, this is a cool spot to hang out and unwind on a Tuesday summer night.

Not to be missed if you are in Huntington Beach on a Tuesday night. Amazing food choices, fruit and veggie stands, sidewalk sales and live music all around. The roasted corn was so sweet and the mini donuts were a dozen for 5.00 and they had 6 different ways you can order them!

Surprisingly better than expected. My bf and I stumbled upon this today. It offers entertainment, food, shopping, and produce.
Food: the Pupusas were good. They were soft, doughy, with a tortilla flavor filled with melted cheese and pork. Good comfort food. We went back and ordered seconds. We also got filled churros that were made on the spot. I thought the churro was good but the filling wasn’t my favorite.
Entertainment: there is a random petting zoo? with chickens, geese, goats, pigs, and a tortoise. There are few bands playing which gets everyone dancing.
A lot of people bring their dogs even tho there is a no pets allowed sign.
Nice surprise for a Tuesday evening.

Tuesday night this is the place to be in Huntington Beach!
Street closure on Main Street, all the way up to 4^th Street. Singers at each end of the outdoor market. I guess my favorite is the small mobile petting zoo, baby piggy and goats squealing.
Plenty of fresh veggie, and fruits for sale by local vendors. Plenty of samples. I thought I was at Costco! Since it’s on Tuesday-​find the vendor with the tacos for $ 1.00, they were delish!
Great way to spend a Tuesday night, the full moon and the clouds hovering around made it kinda creepy though!

Beautiful atmosphere, Beautiful weather, very friendly vendors and lot of different choices. Will definitely go back.

Very cool atmosphere with great products for sale, yummy food and awesome entertainment. Make sure you watch the guy who rides a 12 foot unicycle! He’s funny and has amazing skills. The bacon wrapped hotdogs are also not to be missed.

One word: AWESOME.
Every Tuesday night is so much fun. I get my groceries and the vendors there are fantastic. Very honest on where the fruit/​veggies come from. Organic options!
Great for families and animals. Just no animals in FM which is no biggie.
Recommend this to anyone.

Well, you know what Main Street in HB by the pier looks like on the weekends, right? Busy as f**k, crowded, zero parking, and every screaming kid that was ever born is there with their parents.
Surf City Nights is like that, but on crack. Everything described above is exponentially magnified. And you’d think that was a terrible thing, but it’s really not so bad, for a little while at least.
Food vendors, in the so called food court, are the reason you should check this out. Peruvian Empanadas and papas rellenas, Salvadorean pupusas, Asian fusion food, fries with stuff piled high on them — these are the reasons to show up, stuff yourself, tolerate bad music and people’s BO, and then hightail it outta there.
You’re welcome.

Something for everyone. This occurs on Main St, Huntington Beach, and the bars, restaurants, stores, and other retailers are still there and open. But now we have live musicians, arts and crafts, the bazaar like food vendors, and a petting zoo at times! It’s awesome… come and enjoy.
The farmers market portion isn’t very diverse but you’ll probably find something to tickle yoru fancy.

Good farmers market… just what’s up with all of the cops??? Not that it’s a bad thing, but, do they really need to be walking into the bars and checking things out? Stay outside and patrol for things you need to patrol for!
Other than that, fun family evening out with lots to see and do.

Good farmers market and you cannot beat street tacos for $ 1.00. The trick is go to the market as things are starting to wind down.

Story:
Finished my first week of grad school! So I wanted to celebrate it with good company at a place with good vibes. So what could’ve been better than Main Street Huntington Beach? Surf City Nights! A more family friendly-​esque environment with different things for you to enjoy (Food, music, art and more)!
Ambiance:
Live Entertainment
–You’ll probably run into 3 to 4 different local artists down the strip. The music varies from line dancing, acoustic renditions, ska, and etc.
–Occasionally you’ll see crazy balloon makers, bubble castors, and all that jazz.
Food
–You’ll see vendors all over the places selling food, drinks, and there’s a farmer’s market too. So the world is your oyster. Enjoy!
Vendors
–Some will be selling groceries, others food, and art. They’re all pretty affordable or simply just to window shop
Overall:
I give this place a 4.5. I’ve always had good vibes every time I came here. If you’re in need of a setting to set a fun and friendly tone then this is your place. You’re close to the beach, you’re surrounded by good people (you’ll get your occasional drunks but not too many), have access to various food, an it’s affordable. I highly recommend to check out.
Advice:
–Park at 200 Main Street
–Come early to beat traffic also people start wrapping things up around 9pm.

Not gonna lie, this was an accidental stumble and find. Have you ever been to an Asian Night Market? Well excuse me but heck I didn’t know downtown HB was into this good stuff too! It’s pretty much all you think it is: food, vendors, groceries, loud chatters, street performances, and TONS of fun. Best part? DOG FRIENDLY! WIN!
Parking is obviously a big pain but there are at least 3 parking structures within the vicinity that I’m aware of. So skip the meters and go straight to the structures so you can get your night started.
ENJOY!

I saved my 100^th review of the Unilocal 100 Challenge 2013 for a place that everyone should visit. Huntington Beach on Tuesday evenings! It’s one of the things that keeps HB so charming, in spite of the gazillion residents! It’s geared for locals (many downtown merchants offer locals discounts on Tuesday nights — just ask. Especially restaurants), and it goes all year round. Of course, tourism hits it hard and it gets crazy crowded in the busy season.
It’s a farmers market, a kids zone, a vendor fair, and a hang out spot all at once. Well policed, for the crazy party crowd, and family friendly at the same time as party central. Everyone seems to know where to hang out.
Lots of stuff to eat, come hungry. The kids love candied nuts, and the fair foods. I love the fresh berries, and produce.
Lots of dogs on leashes, so bring Rover, if he is well behaved. And street musicians will fill the air with festive joy. It’s a nice walk on Main for several blocks — and no traffic or parked cars to maneuver around, so meander at leisure. People watching is part of the charm.
It’s from 5−9pm. Every Tuesday. See you soon, neighbors!

this was going on a block from the hotel and it was a much bigger event than i imagined. i thought it would be a little thing, but it extended over several blocks.
there was some live music… sort of. a bit of a farmer’s market was going on and i almost bought some fruit for breakfast the next morning. they were selling some monster strawberries that looked mighty tasty. the usual trinket and gadgets were being sold as well.
we took a quick walk through and if i didn’t have to head back to the hotel to crank up the laptop, i would have liked to wander around a bit more.

Love, love, love surf city nights. As other posters have mentioned, it’s every Tuesday afternoon on Main St in HB. It’s so much better than your average farmer’s market b/​c it has live music, food from diff. cultures, and vendors from all over. My favorite are the pupusas (sp?) which is a tasty snack from Central America. If you are looking for something fun and cheap to do, definitely check it out.

After a disgusting experience at a place claiming to serve Hawaiian style food, I ended up at Downtown Huntington Beach for Surf City Nights. It’s been probably almost a year since I last hung out here on a Tuesday night and not much has changed.
Kids. Families. Music. Food. Booths with everything from veggies to jewelry and these days, furniture. Jumpers for the little ones and a police presence to keep the peace.
Not a bad way to walk off dinner and pick up some healthy free samples.
Only thing is parking sucks unless you don’t mind paying. But everyone knows parking sucks in Huntington Beach.

TUESDAYS!!!
The only guaranteed day off with my boyfriend, so you can imagine I would stay as far away from downtown as possible in fear that they might snag me into work… HOWEVER, the excuse of my mom being in here and hitting the town drunk, somehow I knew I was safe…
This was so refreshing, knowing what was here for years I never felt the need to check it out (mostly because I see the birds eye view, bro hoes, skanky 16 year olds, bad tattoos and stilettos) …I should have slapped myself there because it was beyond worth it! My mom had a blast watching the great live band, eating corn on the cob, walking the pier, oohhing and ahhhing all of the touristy nick-​knacks and even buying a power braclet.
Well I guess this was HB’s way of yelling at me for not playing «tourist» before… it was fun and as long as you look at it through glazed vodka redbull eyes I know you will agree.

My family and I have lived in HB for 7 years and we had yet to try out Surf City Nights, held every Tuesday on Main Street and PCH.
Two reasons, really… my son and I have Boy Scout meetings every Tuesday, but the schedule Gods granted us a 5^th Tuesday this month, meaning we had the night free for the 1^st time in ages.
Also, we are not really «Main Street» kind of people. The place tends to get bogged down with the beach version of 909-​ers. I’ve seen far too many street fights, teenagers hurling, empty Red Bull cans, and enough bad looking tattoos to make me ill.
Surf City Nights was advertised as family friendly, local, home town fun and we looked forward to checking it out. All in all, we had a pretty good time.
Parking was pretty easy but it did cost us $ 8. We had a great dinner at Avila’s El Ranchito with a curbside table after a short wait. The booths were pretty cool and offered a few pretty cool gift ideas and such… like the soap on a stick (keep your mind outta the gutter folks) unique quilts, cheap produce and to go menu items from some local restaurants.
The street acts were right up my kids alley, cheap and harmless fun. Lots of cops around to keep the place tame, and the summer crowd was pretty mellow. Really cool people watching. We also saw tons of familiar faces. Howdy neighbors…
We will definitely be back on one of those elusive 5^th Tuesdays.

This is a pretty cool weekly (Tuesdays 5:00 — 9:00) community get together, with lots of fresh produce and food booths. Food runs the gamut from BBQ to crepes. There’s many street musicians, also running a wide spectrum from a classical pianist to a Didgeridoo player (see pic). If you have never heard a Didgeridoo being played this guy’s name is Trevor Green, look him up on you tube. Its an Australian instrument that makes quite an eerily mystical sound.
Summers coming, so step away from the computer and check it out some Tuesday evening. A huge plus is that most of the nearby bars/​restaurants have some great deals too, e.g. Black Bull has ½ off their appetizers and drink specials all day/​night.