The former Shore Fire Grille in Surf City is under transformation to become Lighthouse Deli LBI in May, not a copy of the grill but very much its own spin-out on what has worked for Michael Seifert at his and his mother’s first Lighthouse Deli on Route 72.

Last week, the meat smoker was getting shipped to a buyer in Florida; coming in was a bagel oven to bake the beachside-favorite bagels onsite.