82 Seafood were voted best seafood restaurant 14 years in a row by the San Diego UnionTribune reader’s poll. Plus, their Anthony’s Fishette, which features quick-service patio dining overlooking the water, won the San Diego Restaurant Association’s Gold Medallion Award for Best Quick Service Restaurant. They are so committed to freshness that they hand select and prepare all of the seafood they serve. A great beginning to any meal is the crab-stuffed portobello mushroom. Featured on the menu is a variety of excellent entrées and fresh catches, such as swordfish fillet with Mama’s Italian sauce, and fresh Pacific red snapper in spicy bread crumbs, topped with ranchero sauce and cheese. These meals include delicious, warm Italian country bread with a signature sun-dried tomato butter and your choice of tangy coleslaw, steamed garden vegetables, crab and macaroni salad and baked potato, french fries or citrus rice pilaf. Not to be overlooked is the royal feast of Alaskan king crab legs and the broiled lobster with drawn butter. And if there is a steak lover in your crowd, they also serve a tender teriyaki top sirloin steak. Also popular are the delicious salads from around the world. Closed major holidays. Cocktail lounge. Boat docking. Credit cards: AE, DISC, MC, VISA. Anthony’s Fish Grotto, 9530 Murray Dr., La Mesa (619-463-0368). Located at Interstate 8 at Severin Drive on Murray Drive. Open daily 10:30 a.m.–8 p.m. ($13.50-$28.95) with lite meals ranging between ($9.25–$16.95). This is San Diego’s only seafood restaurant with a private two acre lake. The lake is surrounded by majestic trees and giant bamboo making it totally private and tranquil. At night it’s lit with a string of white lights and a lighted splashing fountain in the center of the lake offers more enchantment. Enhancing this peaceful setting is first class dining featuring the world famous seafood recipes of Mama Ghio, who together with her sons and family founded the legendary Anthony’s Fish Grotto Restaurants in 1946. They have a second location at the waters edge in downtown San Diego. Both of these restaurants are “must dine in restaurants”. Expect to enjoy award win-
ning seafood, which has won them dozens of awards including the restaurant association’s coveted Golden Medallion Award for Best Restaurant and “Best Seafood Restaurant” by the U/T newspaper for 15 years in a row. Enjoy classy outdoor dining with heat lamps for cool evenings. What to order is always a treat! Heading the list is Mama Ghio’s crab cakes featuring 100 percent lump crabmeat with a distinctive lemon sauce. Also excellent is Mama Ghio’s famous chowder crafted from a 100-year-old family recipe. Featured daily are fresh seafood selections including their lobster trio. It features fresh lobster and savor y grilled salmon topped with shrimp and ser ved with drawn butter with a mountain of mashed potatoes topped with cr unchy asparagus. Still other mouthwatering entrees include wonder ful daily catches of the day, coconut shrimp, magnificent salads, oysters on the half shell and much more. A secret to the popularity of these legendary restaurants are how their delicious seafood is prepared. Anthony’s original grilled or broiled entrees are lightly battered and simultaneously flame broiled and grilled to seal in the flavor. Often overlooked are both restaurant’s grotto architecture reminiscent of the famous grotto on the Isle of Capri. Words cannot adequately diatribe this awesome restaurant. Banquets. Full bar. Credit cards: AE, DISC, MC, VISA Additional location: Downtown: 1360 N. Harbor Dr...........619-232-5103
Blue Water Boathouse & Seafood Grill, 1701 Strand Way Coronado (619435-0155). Open daily 11:30 a.m.– 4 p.m. for lunch and 4 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. for dinner. Saturday and Sunday Brunch is served from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. ($16.50–$49.95). Happy hours Sun.–Thurs. 3 p.m.– 6 p.m. Dog friendly patio offering dog bowls and biscuits. The stunning architecture of the historic circa 1888 boathouse that once belonged to the Hotel Del Coronado is the new home of the sixth location of The Blue Water Seafood Grill. Day or night this eye catching restaurant is an inviting invitation to discover. Upon stepping through the door, restaurant sparkles with beautiful varnished hardwood floors and many eye catching historic photographs