![]() We are both a market open to the public, an online fish market, a wholesaler and a distributor. She is assisted by her husband and Montreal's fish expert, Mr. Today, almost 50 years later, Poissonnerie La Mer is owned by Mrs Helen Katsoulis, the eldest daughter of Mr Kosta. Bringing together a fish market, wholesale distribution centre and a seafood restaurant under one roof, La Mer continued to expand with the successive opening of several subsidiaries in Montreal, Toronto, and Florida under the banner Groupe La Mer. In July 1976, on the way back from a family vacation, Mr Kosta stopped at the foot of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge to announce to his family the purchase of the building that would become, ten years later, the first fish and seafood centre in Montreal: La Reine de La Mer. They became renowned for the quality, diversity and incomparable freshness of their products, and the growing business required an expansion of the premises. Mr Kosta and his co-founders, his sister Mrs Diana and his brother Mr Tassy, transformed the seafood business in Montreal by constantly innovating their product offering, logistics and marketing of fresh and local marine products at their fish shop. Kosta, is the first fishmonger to import fresh fish and seafood from the east coast of Canada, the United States, the Great Lakes and regions directly into Montreal several times a week. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Juan Gonzalez, who has worked in the restaurant chain since 1979, cleans a table.In 1968, the Katsoulis family opened its first fish market the Van Horne Fish Market. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Lyla Phelps, who has worked in the restaurant since 1980, smiles at customers. ![]() (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Jenny Nilson, who has worked for 17 years for the company, talks with a customer. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Seafood dishes are prepared in the kitchen. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Marvin Coc, a cook at the restaurant, prepares seafood dishes. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Henry Hiatt, the general manager of the restaurant, talks with long time customer, Terry Bohn, 73. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Hosts at the restaurant, Kathy Tweed, left, and Kirsty Milne, greet customers. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Lyla Phelps, who has worked in the restaurant since 1980, interacts with co-workers. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Dwight Colton, the president of the Fish Market restaurants, talks with long time customers. A message of appreciation is displayed on Wednesday, Sept. Going forward, diners craving a Fish Market fix will have to make their way south to visit one of the chain’s two remaining restaurants, in San Diego and Del Mar. Also, the hiring and the costs associated with operating the Farallon Fishery for just two restaurants has been challenging. ![]() The reason? Redevelopment is in the works for both properties, company officials said. The company’s fishery operations based in South San Francisco also are closing. The San Mateo restaurant is nearing its final day of business, Sept. On the last day of service at The Fish Market in Palo Alto, Calif., Juan Gonzalez, who has worked in the restaurant chain since 1979, cleans a table on Wednesday, Sept. ![]() Customers lined up outside before lunch to snag a favorite table for their last orders of seafood and bowls of chowder - and their final goodbyes with longtime employees. The Fish Market era is coming to a close in the Bay Area.įorty-seven years after opening California’s first Fish Market restaurant in Palo Alto, then expanding throughout the South Bay and Peninsula, the company shuttered that El Camino Real location late Wednesday.
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