Island Prime in downtown San Diego's Harbor Island district is the city's only waterfront steakhouse, built on wooden stilts over San Diego Bay at 880 Harbor Island Drive with floor-to-ceiling windows framing the downtown skyline and Coronado Bridge. The a la carte menu features 38-day dry-aged New York strip, a signature filet trio topped with blue cheese and Alaskan king crab, and seared blackened tuna — surf-and-turf pairings that share Harbor Drive's fine-dining waterfront with Top of the Market's seafood-focused service further along the bay. A separate casual counterpart, C Level Lounge, operates its own kitchen and menu in the same stilted structure, extending the property into a dual-concept waterfront complex. The wine list runs deep in California and Pacific Northwest selections, and the bar program adds cocktails built for sunset-hour service over the bay. Private dining accommodations and the over-water dining room place Island Prime alongside Sally's Waterfront Dining as one of few San Diego venues where the table itself sits at harbor level. The largest-format buyout converts the full stilted dining room into a waterfront reception pairing coursed steaks, whole lobster, and the 38-day dry-aged program with panoramic bay and skyline views.