The Fish Market in downtown San Diego has anchored the North Harbor Drive waterfront since 1989, when founders Fred Duckett, Robert Wilson, John Freis, and Dean Betts brought their fisherman-founded concept south from its 1976 origins in Palo Alto. The bayfront complex houses multiple venues under one roof — an oyster bar dating to the brand's 1979 Santa Clara debut, a full sushi bar, a cocktail lounge, and a retail market — stacked beneath the white-tablecloth fine-dining room at Top of the Market - San Diego upstairs. Menus print twice a day so the kitchen can list only what arrived that morning, built around the mesquite-grilled fish preparation that made the brand's reputation and signatures like Dungeness crab cioppino and the smoked-fish sampler. The company's own seafood processing and distribution facility in South San Francisco purchases, processes, and distributes catch from a worldwide sourcing network, supplemented by direct purchases from the local commercial fleet that also supplies Paramount Fish Co next door on Harbor Drive. Private dining rooms with panoramic bay views and custom-plated or buffet menus for up to 250 seated guests handle the largest waterfront events the North Harbor Drive complex books, from corporate receptions to wedding dinners overlooking the USS Midway Museum.