📍 Downtown / Embarcadero, San Diego
4 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 4 Restaurants
The waterfront fish sheds and fish markets along the bay, where seafood and skyline views matter more than kitchen ambition
Top 4 in Downtown / Embarcadero
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Top of the Market
The white-tablecloth upstairs at The Fish Market, where the same daily catch climbs a flight and gets crystal, candles, and a wraparound view of the Embarcadero. Whole fish, cioppi...
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The Fish Market
Forty-plus years of San Diego on the Embarcadero, working as oyster bar, retail fish counter, and waterfront dining room under one roof. Daily catch, cioppino simmering by the bowl...
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3
Carnitas' Snack Shack — Embarcadero
Carnitas' Snack Shack's Broadway Pier Embarcadero location — the North Park brand's waterfront chapter, a harbor-view patio, and the same carnitas sandwich that made the SD brand a...
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Portside Pier
The Brigantine Family's Embarcadero four-restaurant pier complex — Brigantine up top, Ketch Grill & Taps in the middle, Miguel's Cocina and Portside Coffee on the pier. Harbor-...
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