San Pedro Fish Market - Home To The World Famous Shrimp Tray - Los Angeles CA U.S.A.

 

San Pedro Fish Market is a place where you can buy fresh seafood and have it cooked usually seared "A la Plancha" style with fajita vegetables.  Although they serve a lot of seafood, they are famous for their Shrimp Tray where in you can opt to add on additional seafood like lobsters, crabs, fish, calamari, and other add ons like potato wedges, corn, and garlic bread.  The restaurant is an al fresco style seating just beside the harbor. 

This is a very popular restaurant in this side of Los Angeles so make sure to come as early as you can or at least be prepared for long queues specially on weekends.  You can choose do buy the fresh seafood on their market or just go directly to the different food stalls and order them directly.

Seafood are really fresh and you can see them in action, cooking the food for you.  The Shrimp Tray for me is the best option to order.  It is for sharing so I suggest going here in groups. But, you can also order other individual seafood dishes if you prefer to.  Here is their menu:

Watch this video of San Pedro Fish Market: 

The San Pedro Fish Market have 3 branches.  One in San Pedro Harbor Blvd, one in Long Beach and one in Wilmington.  

San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant

1150 S Harbor Blvd, San Pedro, CA 90731

San Pedro Fish Market - Long Beach

6550 E Marina Dr, Long Beach, CA 90803

San Pedro Fish Market Grille

120 W G St #5496, Wilmington, CA 90744

My Rating:

Food/Taste:  8/10 (fresh seafood cooked as you order)

Ambiance:  6/10 (although you have a sea view, it can be packed at busy hours)

Cleanliness:  7/10 (due to the high turn over rate, some tables are not cleaned right away)

Service: 6/10 (mostly self service but staff are helpful)

Establishment:  9/10 (good location with lot of free parking space)

Price:  7/10 (price is a bit on the touristy side)

Overall: 7.17/10 

Frequency Meter:  I would dine here once a quarter.  The long queue is what's ticking me off.

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Grand Central Market - Biggest Century Old Market Place - Los Angeles, CA., U.S.A.

 

You can find the Grand Central Market at 317 S Broadway in the actual city of Los Angeles. The Market opened in 1917 and has always housed food vendors.  A few years back, the owners started gathering a new generation of food and drink vendors, and it wasn’t long before the market started earning national acclaim. The Market is a microcosm of the historic immigrant communities that have shaped Los Angeles and a mosaic of the creativity and vision of the people who call this city home.

The market has been in continuous operation for over 100 years, cycling through descending generations of Angelenos working as customers and food stall managers. From green grocers to fishmongers, Jewish delis, butchers, baked goods, flowers, coffee and cheese -- visitors can find anything they need here while supporting a longstanding local business establishment at Grand Central Market.

Grand Central Market is open every day from 8am to 10pm and admission is free. The parking garage is at 308 S Hill Street at a cost depending on how many hours you will be utilizing it. There is no validation offered at the Grand Central Market so you’ll just have to pay up.

This market encompasses 30,000 square feet of food stalls and retail space. The interior and exterior sitting spaces provide a shared gathering place to meet friends, bring a date, or take the kids on a trip to DTLA. The Grand Central Market is considered the oldest and largest Market in DTLA.

Overall, if you are a foodie, it is highly recommended that you visit Grand Central Market.  The variety of food that you will encounter here is on a different level. Grand Central Market provides Los Angeles with a national-caliber eating experience that showcases California’s best ingredients, chefs, and entrepreneurs.

Watch this video of Grand Central Market

Grand Central Market

317 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

MARKET HOURS

Monday through Sunday: 8am — 9pm

Hours vary vendor to vendor. If you’re planning to visit a specific vendor, you can check the hours on the vendor page. Follow our Instagram for announcements and updates.

PARKING

308 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

First 90 Minutes: $4

Each additional 15 minutes: $2

Daily Maximum: $25

My Rating:

Food/Taste:  7/10 (Some shops are very good but some are just okay)

Ambiance:  7/10 (can be very busy at peak hours with very few seating on some shops)

Cleanliness:  8/10 (decently clean for a marketplace)

Service: 8/10 (very friendly staff)

Establishment:  7/10 (good location, parking on a separate facility though)

Price:  7/10 (it is on the pricey side for a market setting)

Overall: 7.33/10 

Frequency Meter:  I would dine here once a month

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Sis Seafood Palutuan - Seaside Seafood Market - Pasay, Manila, Philippines

 

If you're in Manila, one of the best place to eat seafood is in Seaside Seafood Market.  Is located along Macapagal Blvd in Pasay City and it has probably the most variety of seafood in Manila area.  The set-up here is you buy fresh seafood from the market and choose from the many restaurants lined up in the area where you can have them cooked the way you want them to.  Make sure you scout the market for the best fresh seafood and haggle for the prices.

Watch This YouTube video of Seaside Seafood Market and Sis Seafood Palutuan:

After you buying your seafood, you then pick a restaurant where you can have it cooked.  I have been here several times and each time I come here, I choose a new restaurant to have my seafood cooked.  I do this to know which restaurant has the best cooking.  Today, I picked 'Sis Seafood Palutuan', which has good reviews among the restaurants in this place.

There is a cooking charge for every seafood you bring to the restaurant.  Price depends on how it was cooked and they charge by the kilo.  Prices are shown on the image above.  Today I bought shrimps, mud crabs (alimango), spanner crab (curacha), and slipper lobster.

Shrimp Tempura

Sweet Chili Spanner Crab and Slipper Lobster

Steamed Mud Crabs

Everything with a cup of Steamed Rice

Dining here at Seaside Seafood Market is better for groups as you'll probably ending up buying a lot like what I did.  Unfortunately for me, I just went in solo.  I guess, I'll just have them to go if I can't finish them.  They cooked all my seafood perfectly with just the right amount of flavors.  Sis Seafood Palutuan is open from 10:30AM to 11:00PM daily.  If you don't like to go to the wet market and buy the seafood on your own, the restaurant can buy it for you too.  Hey, but where's the fun in that? Right?  The strolling around the market seeing all the seafood and actual haggling of prices is a great experience itself.

Just look at those crabs (pic above) and all that crab meat and fat, it doesn't get any better than that!  This place is highly recommended if you are a seafood lover.  It simply just a seafood haven!

Sis Seafood Palutuan

Bldg. 1-3 Esplanade San Miguel by the Bay, Macapagal Blvd., Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines

My Rating:

Food/Taste:  9/10 (flavorful cooking and really fresh)

Ambiance:  7/10 (just a simple diner)

Cleanliness:  8/10 (fairly clean)

Service: 8/10 (friendly and helpful staff)

Establishment:  8/10 (easy to find with parking)

Price:  7/10 (seafood are on the pricey side plus you need to add cooking charges)

Overall: 7.83/10 

Frequency Meter:  I would dine here once a month

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