Homeowners of the San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant, a top-grossing restaurant that when sprawled throughout a picket pier within the Port of Los Angeles, have signed a 49-year lease to rebuild at their historic waterfront house.
For many years the Fish Market was a part of Ports O’Name, a vacationer attraction that was razed in recent times to make approach for a brand new regional attraction referred to as West Harbor that’s now beneath development.
The restaurant constructed a loyal following of shoppers who spent about $30 million a yr earlier than the pandemic on its heaping trays of shrimp, lobster and different seafood shared at spare steel tables on the weathered pier.
Members of the Ungaro household, the restaurant’s house owners, deliberate in 2021 to maneuver the operation to a different location within the port however have now dedicated to staying in West Harbor as an anchor tenant.
The restaurant will stand subsequent to the brand new improvement’s amusement park, which can embrace a Ferris wheel that’s anticipated to be as a lot as 50% larger than the Pacific Wheel at Pacific Park amusement heart on Santa Monica Pier.
The Fish Market presently is working with cell kitchens in momentary out of doors quarters within the car parking zone subsequent to its former website, the place it served 450,000 diners and grossed $16 million final yr, in keeping with Chief Government Mike Ungaro.
Earlier than shifting into its new digs, the Fish Market will relocate to a different momentary area on part of the West Harbor website that’s meant to ultimately maintain a lodge. It should function there for about three years, serving 1,600 folks at a time, whereas the market’s everlasting house is constructed.
Ultimately will probably be one of many largest eating places in america, Ungaro mentioned, spanning 55,000 sq. toes and able to serving 3,000 diners at a time — about the identical capability as its unique location. Almost 90% of the eating area can be on an out of doors patio overlooking the waterfront.
Deliberate options embrace occasion areas, personal eating choices and areas for podcasters and different content material creators to conduct reside broadcasts, Ungaro mentioned. The market has appeared on lists of essentially the most Instagrammed eating places within the U.S., with posts sometimes exhibiting folks tucking into mammoth trays of seafood.
“They’re an establishment in San Pedro,” mentioned Eric Johnson, senior mission govt for the West Harbor improvement. “It’s actually necessary that we’ve been in a position to present them a long-term house.”
San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant can have a long-term house subsequent to the amusement park at West Harbor.
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The $155-million first section of West Harbor, which can embrace eating places, bars and retailers, is ready to open late subsequent yr. Its builders introduced in October plans to expedite development of the subsequent section, which requires the amusement park, extra meals tenants and an array of outside pickleball and padel courts. The everlasting house for the Fish Market can be a part of the second section.
The Fish Market additionally introduced that it’s going to open a 17,000-square-foot restaurant at Outdated Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey in Northern California in 2026.
