Bali Hai Restaurant 2230 Shelter Island Dr • San Diego • CA 92106

Bali Hai Restaurant on Shelter Island in San Diego is all-inclusive: every package covers a 6-hour rental, a plated or buffet meal with starters and a side, bread and butter, a champagne and cider toast, cake cutting, and coffee, tea, iced tea and water. Staffing, tables, chairs, linens, napkins, tableware, setup and teardown, a dance floor and free self-parking are built in too. Upgraded packages can add appetizers, wine service and a 1-hour call bar. What's extra: a 25% service charge, a ceremony fee if you marry on site, and a hosted bar when it's priced separately, at $20–$30 per person for the first hour and $8–$16 per person for each additional hour.

Yes, Bali Hai Restaurant hosts both, so your guests stay put all day. Your ceremony happens at the outdoor ceremony site right on the water, with views of San Diego Bay and the downtown skyline. For the reception, choose the South Pacific Room, a circular room with bay windows, a Tapa-designed private bar and a built-in bamboo dance floor for up to 200 guests inside, or the Hawaiian Village, a one-walled outdoor pavilion on the bay for up to 200 guests.

Catering and alcohol are in-house at Bali Hai Restaurant, so you'll plan a Polynesian-meets-Californian menu with the Executive Chef, from plated service to a luau-style buffet. There are two exceptions. You can bring your own wedding cake or desserts, and you can bring your own wine for a corkage fee that starts at $15 per 750ml bottle. Other outside catering and outside alcohol aren't allowed.

Packages at Bali Hai Restaurant in San Diego run $80–$140 per person, depending on the package you choose and whether you host a lunch or a dinner. There's also a food and beverage minimum that changes with the day, time and season: $2,500 Monday–Thursday and $5,000–$12,000 for weekend events. Meet it and there's no venue fee; fall short and the difference is charged as a venue fee. A 25% service charge is added, a hosted bar priced separately starts at $20–$30 per person for the first hour, and there's a separate ceremony fee if you marry on site. Here's the thing: weekday dates and weddings from November–March get reduced rates with the same 6-hour package, so your date is one of the biggest levers on cost.

Every package at Bali Hai Restaurant includes 6 hours. Lunch events run 10am–3:30pm or 11:30am–4pm, and dinner events run 4–10pm or 6:30pm–midnight, so the latest your celebration can go is midnight. Amplified music is allowed both indoors and outdoors, with some restrictions, so ask the events team which apply to the space you book.

Bali Hai Restaurant is a waterfront landmark at the tip of Shelter Island, dating to the 1950s and one of the few mid-century Tiki restaurants still running in the country. You can say your vows on the water and celebrate right there, with views of San Diego Bay and the downtown skyline. Guests can even arrive by boat at the private dock, and San Diego International Airport is less than 10 minutes away. The menu leans Polynesian-meets-Californian, all the way to a luau buffet. Planning something small? The upstairs Tiki Room fits up to 28 people, and the events team plans weekday elopements too.