The owners of San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant, a most profitable restaurant that once spread over a wooden pier in the port of Los Angeles, signed a 49 -year -old lease to rebuild in their historic house by the water.
For decades, the market was part of O'Call ports, a tourist attraction that has been shaved in recent years to make way for a regional attraction called West Harbor which is currently under construction.
The restaurant built a loyal audience of customers who spent around 30 million dollars a year before the pandemic of its shrimp, lobster and other seafood shared on spare metal tables on the altered pier.
Members of the Ungaro family, the owners of the restaurant, planned in 2021 To move the operation to another place in the port, but has now been committed to staying in West Harbor as an anchor tenant.
The restaurant will be held next to the new development amusement park, which will include a ferris wheel which should reach 50% more than the Pacific wheel at Pacific park Fun center on the Santa Monica jet.
San Pedro Fish Market is currently working with mobile kitchens in temporary outdoor quarters in the parking lot next to his former site, where he served 450,000 guests and reported $ 16 million last year, Director General Mike Ungaro said.
Before moving to its new excavations, the restaurant will move to another temporary space on part of the West Harbor site which is intended to hold a hotel. He will operate there for about three years, serving up to 1,600 people at a time, while the permanent house on the market is built.
Finally, it will be one of the largest restaurants in the United States, said Ungaro, covering 55,000 square feet capable of serving 3,000 guests at a time – about the same capacity as its original location. Almost 90% of the dining room will be on an outdoor patio overlooking the seafront.
The features planned include event spaces, private catering options and areas for podcasters and other content creators to carry out live emissions, said Ungaro. The market has appeared on the lists Among the most instagrammed restaurants in the United States, with messages generally showing people entering seafood platforms.
“They are an institution in San Pedro,” said Eric Johnson, senior project director for West Harbor Development. “It is really important that we were able to provide them with a long -term house.”
The fish market and the San Pedro restaurant will have a long -term house next to the amusement park in West Harbor.
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The first $ 155 million phase of West Harbor, which will include restaurants, bars and shops, is expected to open its doors at the end of next year. Its developers announced in October planned to accelerate the construction of the next phase, which calls for the amusement park, more food tenants and a range of pickleball and outdoor pallets. The permanent house of the fish market will be part of the second phase.
San Pedro Fish Market also announced that he would open a 17,000 square feet restaurant in Old Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey in northern California in 2026.
