The Albright • 1977

The longest-running restaurant on the Santa Monica Pier serves Ms. Kim's Spicy Seafood Soup, a house specialty since the Korean immigrant family first opened in 1977 as SM Pier Seafood. Nearly five decades later, daughter Yunnie Kim Morena and her husband Greg run the renamed Albright—a nautical knot symbolizing two generations—where diners still pick live lobster and crab from saltwater tanks and order pier classics like fish and chips with Pacific views.