Mastro's Ocean Club's Del Mar Highlands location — an ocean-view dining room with a piano bar, the seafood tower and butter-cake desserts that are the brand's national signatures, and one of North Cou...
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Ironside Fish & Oyster
Seafood / Oyster Bar · Little Italy
Consortium Holdings' Little Italy seafood temple — the famous 1,600-piranha-skull wall behind the bar, oysters flown daily, and a raw-bar program that legitimized San Diego as an oyster city. One of L...
89
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Lionfish
Seafood / Modern · Gaslamp
Pendry Hotel Gaslamp's modern seafood flagship — sushi program, whole grilled branzino, and a dining room engineered for a proper Gaslamp dinner. The Pendry opened in 2017 and Lionfish has anchored it...
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Point Loma Seafoods
Seafood / Casual · Point Loma
San Diego's defining fish-market-and-lunch-counter since 1963 — boats unload on the dock, the smoked tuna sandwich is the legend, and the upstairs harbor-view deck has been an SD institution for three...
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Water Grill
Seafood / Fine Dining · Gaslamp
King's Seafood Company's Water Grill — the LA seafood institution's Gaslamp sister at 6th and J, a raw bar that's cited among the country's best, and the kind of Padres-game-night special-occasion sea...
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Eddie V's La Jolla
Seafood / Steakhouse · La Jolla
The Eddie V's La Jolla outpost — upscale seafood-and-steakhouse chain with live jazz in the V Lounge every night, Chilean sea bass as the anchor order, and one of La Jolla's better-booked special-occa...
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Oscar's Mexican Seafood — Hillcrest
Mexican / Seafood · Hillcrest
The smoked fish taco that has become a San Diego legend — charred mesquite-smoked fish in a handmade tortilla, spicy salsa, and the line that forms by 11:30 a.m. on any given day. The Hillcrest locati...
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The Fishery
Seafood · Pacific Beach
Part fish market, part restaurant — a Pacific Beach institution since 1979. Walk in for a whole fish to take home; sit down for a dinner from the same case. Fresh catch of the day format, and the kind...
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Herb & Sea
Coastal American / Seafood · Encinitas
Brian Malarkey's Encinitas coastal-American — the follow-up to Herb & Wood, sized for the 101 corridor. Cocktail bar up front, dining room behind, and a menu that earned a Top Chef-sized following...
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Donovan's Prime Seafood Grill
Seafood / Steakhouse · Gaslamp
Donovan's Gaslamp sister — a surf-and-turf version of the Donovan's Steakhouse brand, a block from Petco Park, with a reservation book that fills for every Padres home stand. The Gaslamp Donovan's cha...
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All 60 Seafood Spots in San Diego
West Steak & Seafood
Steakhouse / Seafood · Carlsbad
87
Top of the Market
Seafood / Fine Dining · Downtown / Embarcadero
87
JRDN at Tower23
Contemporary American / Seafood · Pacific Beach
86
Pacifica Del Mar
American / Seafood · Del Mar
86
Island Prime & C Level
Steakhouse / American / Seafood · Harbor Island
86
El Pescador Fish Market
Seafood / Casual · La Jolla
86
The Hake Kitchen & Bar
Seafood / Modern American · La Jolla
86
TJ Oyster Bar
Mexican / Seafood · Bonita
86
333 Pacific
American / Seafood / Steakhouse · Oceanside
86
Blue Water Seafood Market & Grill
Seafood / Casual · Mission Hills
86
Blue Point Coastal Cuisine
Seafood / American · Gaslamp
86
Cafe Pacifica
American / Seafood / Californian · Old Town
86
Jake's Del Mar
American / Seafood · Del Mar
85
Mitch's Seafood
Seafood / Casual · Point Loma
85
The Fish Market
Seafood · Downtown / Embarcadero
85
Pete's Seafood & Sandwich
Seafood / Sandwiches · Mission Hills
85
The Shores Restaurant
American / Seafood · La Jolla Shores
85
Fish 101
Seafood / Casual · Leucadia / Encinitas
85
Bay Park Fish Co.
Seafood / Casual · Bay Park
85
Pacific Coast Grill
American / Seafood · Cardiff-by-the-Sea
85
Hello Betty Fish House
American / Seafood · Oceanside
85
Lou & Mickey's
American / Steakhouse / Seafood · Gaslamp
85
World Famous
Seafood / American / Breakfast · Pacific Beach
84
Poseidon on the Beach
American / Seafood · Del Mar
84
Sea180° Coastal Tavern
American / Seafood · Imperial Beach
84
Duke's La Jolla
American / Hawaiian / Seafood · La Jolla
84
Osetra Seafood & Steakhouse
Seafood / Steakhouse · Gaslamp
84
Fathom Bistro, Bait & Tackle
American / Seafood / Bar · Shelter Island
84
Crab Hut
Cajun / Seafood · Kearny Mesa
84
Portside Pier
American / Seafood / Food Hall · Downtown / Embarcadero