UPDATE! Two weeks after sending the owner, Kirk B. my cell phone number I have yet to hear from the manager... Quote from the owner: "The general manager of the Del Mar Restaurant, Erin, would appreciate the opportunity to discuss it with you." HAHAHA, guess Erin would NOT appreciate this opportunity! Maybe she should have another martini!

Bob Evans of the Sea! BYOS - Bring your own seasoning!!! Do you like bland/over-cooked AND very expensive food? Then The Fish Market at Solana Beach is for you!

I'm not even really sure where to begin, slow service? Food before receiving drinks? Bland? (copious amounts - like surface tension held up my wife's tuna filet - of unsalted butter is NOT seasoning.)The view of an alley and the local Speedway along with the company we kept with the ants crawling on the windowsill?

The one wonderful part of our experience was the hostess. She was friendly, answered questions for us upon arrival, complimented our daughter on her mask, and even came back to check on what her pronouns were because she was talking to a co-worker and wanted to make sure she had her pronouns correct. So cool.

The appetizers were on our table before our drinks were... We had the smoked fish sampler, the salmon was excellent, the rest was fine. We had the cheese/crab bread, the bread itself was very good, the crab was dry and bland. Did I mention my drinks didn't show up until after the appetizers arrived? I had three Hendricks martinis, normally I have two, but they were so watered down I struggled with if they were vodka or gin. Very disapproving considering they were $12.95 a piece. In order to get my next martini on time I ordered my next one when my first showed up at the table.

My son had the teriyaki chicken off of the children's menu, he asked for the salt, there was no salt on the table and our server didn't seem interested in checking on us... My son sat and stared at his over-cooked dry/tasteless chicken just wanting salt... I tried waving to the manager who was just standing by the door looking confused, but she was too busy watching dust settle on the floor.

My daughter had the dumpster fire pasta, apparently all the extra rubbery fish chucks that the kitchen can't serve go into this concoction wearing a marinara disguise. Again, salt would have been helpful...

My wife had the fresh tuna, as mentioned above, held on plate by a pool of unsalted butter and no seasoning. Extra effort taken to remove salt from the actual homewaters of the sea!

Finally my dinner, I prefer a good fish and chips! I went with the Atlantic Cod fish and chips, you can't screw that up! Over-cooked. It was dry and tasteless. I choked down one piece of fish, which took up all of the ketchup that I was served as condiment to fish and fries.

Finally our server arrived to see if we were ready for our check AND check in on the food ??? I did try to explain to our server that the food wasn't good, she turned to walk away and said "another martini will make it all better."

We thought about dessert as we didn't eat most of our food, but we were already up to $230, didn't want to throw any more money away. As for a tip, I can't remember the last year I gave a server less than 20% and we eat out quite often. Kathie, IMO did really well receiving15%. I probably should have spoken to the manager but I would feel bad by waking her up while she was pretending to do her job. The best case scenario would be money off our tab, the worst case scenario would be a gift certificate to return for another try!