I worked as a waitress (while in grad school) when Mr. Kellogg was alive. During a grunion run outside the restaurant, the waiters collected the fish, chefs fried up the dish, and with the restaurant manager’s direction, waitresses served it to the customers for free. Sunsets were beautiful, remarkable the day I saw it through the lounge window that had collapsed from the ocean coming in. Heard nice reminiscences from local residents, like the dog races during World War II (where the grunion ran).
Definition of brainwashed. Mother nature would take it out like nothing, engineers are concerned, all over the news, and you're impressed lmfao. Nothing is neat about this
It is breathtaking. Being in the Marine Room once, at 3 yrs old, in 1963, I remember that wall of glass. Happy to see your family is attentive to the needs of the structure. Thank you for showing us.
I'd be interested to know more about how they rebuilt and reinforced everything. It's not like the ocean is going to pause for a rebuild or construction I wonder how they did it??😳
@@chefdsal1 i have yet to visit a place that has both. I wish we could just bring our own food to places like this. Why take up a good location and then serve terrible food? I haven't been to the Marine Room yet. I hope it's not like all the others.
The Marine Room isn't constantly being bashed by waves that big usually, over 4/5ths of the year its just against the lower sea wall and barely even touches the bottom glass with waves. Source: I work in La Jolla in the ocean and pass it ever day.
@@AckzaTV I used to work there for 4 years. If you want to see waves hitting the windows.. In the summertime the highest of the high tides are at night... They open at 6, so find out on a tide calendar what time the high tide is... Make sure to go when the high tide has at least a 6.5'. In the winter, the highest of the high tides are in the morning. They open up at 5am for high tide breakfast.
I was in San Diego for an Oncology conference in the early 90s and a group of coworkers suggested we make reservations for the Marine Room for dinner. Luckily we were able to get late reservations for the following night. Dinner was seated early and late. Since I'd never heard of this establishment I was excited for the opportunity. The night finally arrives (it felt like it was days and days later) and we arrived on time for our dinner. The food was delicious. The dining room was very luxurious and the windows!!! OMG the windows! I couldn't wait to finish and get out of there. The water rose so high that the windows at high tide were covered in sea water with creepy crawly things swimming by. I was glad to leave.
Wow! It’s a bit scary, but beautiful! We were there last summer literally walking around the ocean side of the restaurant. Hope the high tide doesn’t take over the building.
It reminds me of the dreams where I’d be in a house and the waves would crash right onto the glass with windows in the exact same fashion as this. Definitely would not want to eat there no matter how safe it is.
I have a reoccurring dream that I'm pinned to the floor with my mouth wired open and people with really bad diareah and liquid poops constantly shit in my mouth, it's horrible
There is also a restaurant very similar to this in Monterey, California if I remember correctly. Went as a young kid but it was a Mexican restaurant and was a bit higher up on a cliff overlooking the beach. Still one of my favorite memories to this day, just being so close to a view like that...
Back in the day at the beginning of the 1980's I rented a four bedroom house that went from the street down a cliff to the beach at Victoria Beach in Laguna Beach. Anyway, at the south end of the beach there was a condo building that had the same curved wall like the restaurant has. Storm waves would hit the wall and go up and curve backwards. The waves would tower way up like they were going to obliiterate the condos but instead they curved back into the ocean.
I was certified as an open water diver after completing my beach entry right in front of the marine room in 1983. Five of us entered with one instructor three of us completed the test. Two had to be drug back onto the beach. Good times
Place is very unique my wife and I once got some free drinks and a table right by the window at high tide for putting some entitled old man in his place for harassing the hosts 😂. One of our favorites for special occasions
I'm looking at the pictures and the presentation is very contemporary and fun AND... I don't see any foam. (No sea foam.) Which is a plus. But it does appear to be one of those places that thinks meat should be served raw. I disagree with that. I lived with a guy who considered himself a foodie. He thought raw meat had the authentic flavour, that it was how it was meant to be eaten... - To me raw tastes like raw. I don't know if that's because I'm missing the important "make raw shit taste good" gene, or if that guy was a preening liar. Wait, I do know. - Meat was not "meant" to be eaten. There was no intelligent design creating meat so that humans would have a food source that was particularly yummy in a given state. - "Fire has also influenced human biology, assisting in providing the high-quality diet which has fuelled the increase in brain size through the Pleistocene." In short, humans are 'meant' to cook their meat.
I remember in '82 when that place got trashed, along with the Poseidon, aka Fire Pit restaurant in Del Mar. We saw their dining room furniture floating down our street. That was a crazy year!
You know what would be even better? A restaurant under a real waterfall in the middle of a tropical forest. Better yet a restaurant inside of an active volcano
My favorite beachfront hotel in La Jolla got wiped out several years ago. I was shocked but, it was close to the water. The dining room looked out on the beach, basically a massive glass wall on that side, it was just a gorgeous breakfast experience and the buffet was impressive. I forgot but they may have rebuilt it.
Interesting, I wonder how this manages to skirt aside the California law that doesn't allow anyone to own the coast up to the high tide line. Is that restricted to only places with sand? Does the tide wall some how push that delineate that point because it's blocking the tide?
@@KBTadieh Did a little further digging into the law, saw that existing structures and those that provide protection, e.g. a seawall, are exempt, so while no one would build a building straight out on to the beach into the ocean if they build one and use a seawall for the foundation then it's kosher.
@@KBTadieh so they should just tear it down because of newer laws? It’s been there for decades, it brings immense pleasure to those who visit it, it’s historical. Nothing to do with the rich…what’s it like looking for negativity in everything? You must be a lib
@@terrisanturro1043 I believe that people who are not able to get insurance because of risk like this are able to get the US government (taxpayers) to insure it at a very low rate. I know that Mar-a-Lardo has this policy, it was explained on the news when a hurricane was approaching it. It a storm wipes out Mar-a-Lardo, it will be rebuilt at TAXPAYER expense. Many mansions and other oceanfront buildings owned by the very wealthy have this coverage. It's welfare for the wealthy.
I used to work in the Marine room Kitchen. It’s a disaster back there. First of all it’s below sea level so there is no drainage and at the end of the night the cooks are sludging in 2 inches of water in an attempt to clean the floors every day. They outsource their desserts because their ovens are so disgustingly old and rusted. Lowest paid job I ever had in a fine dining kitchen
I think The Marine Room would be even better if the restaurant were extended farther out so as to be submerged full time and incorporated as an under the surface breakwater which would have dual purpose of added protection for the main structure and some stunning ambiance.
My wife and I ate there for our 1st anniversary over 15 years ago. Definitely a memorable experience.
How sweet, happy new year to you both ❤
Aww! Great to hear.
Why did the idiot's build it in the ocean
Because they're FUCKIN idiots
What was better the used needles or human feces that you have to wade through on the street
I worked as a waitress (while in grad school) when Mr. Kellogg was alive. During a grunion run outside the restaurant, the waiters collected the fish, chefs fried up the dish, and with the restaurant manager’s direction, waitresses served it to the customers for free. Sunsets were beautiful, remarkable the day I saw it through the lounge window that had collapsed from the ocean coming in. Heard nice reminiscences from local residents, like the dog races during World War II (where the grunion ran).
The corrosion on the building must be crazy, those are some pretty hostile conditions for a structure. Pretty neat.
Definition of brainwashed. Mother nature would take it out like nothing, engineers are concerned, all over the news, and you're impressed lmfao. Nothing is neat about this
@@joseavila5616 Thank you for your hostile yet incoherent comment. 🙏
@@jjbarajas5341 comment is clear. You are incoherent
@@jjbarajas5341find a safe space nancy
@@itr0863 Okay??? 🤷♀️
It is breathtaking. Being in the Marine Room once, at 3 yrs old, in 1963, I remember that wall of glass. Happy to see your family is attentive to the needs of the structure. Thank you for showing us.
It's stupid. It's about to fall off and you're praising it. Definition of no brain.
The place is that old man
Damn that's pretty crazy that you can remember stuff from when you were 3.
@@Gameboy-Unboxings nobody remembers when they were 3, especially in 1963 someone probably just told them they ate there straight cap.
@@natea5298 The funny thing is, you do remember stuff from when you were three
I'd be interested to know more about how they rebuilt and reinforced everything. It's not like the ocean is going to pause for a rebuild or construction I wonder how they did it??😳
They might put up a temporary cofferdam around it, or at least work at the lowest tides maybe
@@timmillan6701
Thank you, I know that it was done I just had no idea how and It seemed crazy to me! I appreciate the reply!☺
I will dig up 1982-83 stories for answers.
My guess is they built parts of the structure outside and then just bring them and put them in place. As they probably do in harsh environments.
@@cbs8sandiego
Thank you! 😃
The real reason the waves stay out...
they can't afford it! 😔
LOL :)
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One thing about nature….. she is persistent and patient. One day she will take back what is hers. No matter how bullet proof it is.
Stop talking about waves like they're a sentient being you sound unhinged.
I agree..gary Indiana use to be the industrial powerhouse during the 1800s now it's almost a jungle.
Yeppers!
🎯 *I agReE.!! UnTiL "MaN" leaRns how to tRuLy liVe wiTh naTuRe and NoT on heR she wiLL aLWaYs undoubTedLy WiN.!!!* 🌳 💪 🌞
Yep, and im not tryna find out when that might be😂😂
The view is outstanding. The food is so-so. You do pay for the experience which is understandable.
Like any restaurant with a view.
@@marktrain9498 Think again Mark. Most places that charge this much have good food and a good view. This place has a good view.
About $60 per entree, I’d say it’s worth it.
@@chefdsal1 i have yet to visit a place that has both. I wish we could just bring our own food to places like this. Why take up a good location and then serve terrible food? I haven't been to the Marine Room yet. I hope it's not like all the others.
Ok. Same as the Space Needle in Seattle...
The Marine Room isn't constantly being bashed by waves that big usually, over 4/5ths of the year its just against the lower sea wall and barely even touches the bottom glass with waves. Source: I work in La Jolla in the ocean and pass it ever day.
Because tides.
Thanks
Hey! I live in La Jolla!
4/5ths is just a snazzy way to say 80% which just translates to about 2.5 months of the year.
@@lllill You work in the ocean?
Bulletproof? Easy. Oceanproof? Now that's tough.
they didnt learn from the TITAN
My prom date and I went here for dinner in ‘82. It wasn’t high tide, but the view was quite spectacular.
So what time do u need reservations to experience the "submarine room"?
Prom date, '81. PLHS
@@AckzaTV I used to work there for 4 years.
If you want to see waves hitting the windows.. In the summertime the highest of the high tides are at night... They open at 6, so find out on a tide calendar what time the high tide is... Make sure to go when the high tide has at least a 6.5'.
In the winter, the highest of the high tides are in the morning. They open up at 5am for high tide breakfast.
did u fk after
LJHS?
After my set at The La Jolla Comedy Store I'm going to have an after party there for the fans. Love it!
YOU MEAN 'in one of the booths', right??
What a cool restaurant 💕 Great history too
This reminds me of those aquarium restaurants from the 90s that had massive fish tanks.
Always kinda made me feel claustrophobic going to those. Nostalgic though.
They still do, go to cheddars or a Chinese buffet lol
I miss those ..
I completely forgot those were a thing..they were real neat as a child
Ocean: I'd like reservations for the entire restaurant, please. We have a meeting.
I heard their having a wave party.
Server: That's no problem. Date and time?...
Wait a minute. I know you. We told you to stay outside after the last time you had a meeting here.
@@realitybreaker1679 reservation!? We don't need no stinkin' reservation!
The ocean needs to be more considerate. Already taking up 3/4 of the planet
This is cute
Cool story! Thanks CBS 8 San Diego!
I was in San Diego for an Oncology conference in the early 90s and a group of coworkers suggested we make reservations for the Marine Room for dinner. Luckily we were able to get late reservations for the following night. Dinner was seated early and late. Since I'd never heard of this establishment I was excited for the opportunity. The night finally arrives (it felt like it was days and days later) and we arrived on time for our dinner. The food was delicious. The dining room was very luxurious and the windows!!! OMG the windows! I couldn't wait to finish and get out of there. The water rose so high that the windows at high tide were covered in sea water with creepy crawly things swimming by. I was glad to leave.
That sounds like q bizarre experience. I wouldnt be able to eat, ill take it to go please!
me too - no thank you i'll pass on that experience
I think my nerves would be shot at the anticipation of a “what if” 😳
Free commercial for the Marine Room. Hooray.
Wow! It’s a bit scary, but beautiful! We were there last summer literally walking around the ocean side of the restaurant. Hope the high tide doesn’t take over the building.
Ate Here Back in 1996 the Night of MVHS Senior Prom. Great Dinner and a Great Night!
Awesome History & Story On The Marine Room.
It reminds me of the dreams where I’d be in a house and the waves would crash right onto the glass with windows in the exact same fashion as this. Definitely would not want to eat there no matter how safe it is.
I have a reoccurring dream that I'm pinned to the floor with my mouth wired open and people with really bad diareah and liquid poops constantly shit in my mouth, it's horrible
@@petepillow8642 I'm sorry, but that was one of the weirdest yet funniest things I've ever read.
@@petepillow8642 well what the hell did they eat?
I have the same dream but the glass doesn't break. It's one of my most favorite scary dreams.
Mother nature will eventually win she always does
Look at these arrogant bastwrds 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Pshh... We'll see about that.
@@humanbean1424 Yes, it is a guarantee you will see. Planet Earth has a 100% kill rate. XP
@@humanbean1424 yes you sure will
don't underestimate father nature...
I wonder if they lower the prices during low tide.
Oh this is way better then my idea for a restaurant on top of an active volcano
La Jolla, to me, is the most beautiful community in America.
Super cool
There is also a restaurant very similar to this in Monterey, California if I remember correctly. Went as a young kid but it was a Mexican restaurant and was a bit higher up on a cliff overlooking the beach. Still one of my favorite memories to this day, just being so close to a view like that...
i can see youve never been in the kitchen at the marine room....
Excellent engeneering work and beautiful restaurant.
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Yes!
My favorite place I used to eat all the time when I grew up in San Diego
Interesting segment, good work guys
Cool! It's a really great restaurant.
I used to treat this place for termites 15yrs ago. Pretty cool building
Always love hearing about the Marine Room. Thanks Shawn
Same here, so happy to see this!
All i get an image of is deep blue sea when the shark throws the one armed scientist at the glass and it cracks letting the ocean come in. Lol
I can’t imagine the indigestion from eating in such a stressful environment. Y’all can have it!
stressful?? 😂
@@deagle2yadome696 when i see stuff like this i always think of that movie 2012
better than a picnic in an old oil field...
Someplace I would like to go next time I'm in San Diego!
I’ve been wondering how the restaurant was doing with the tides lately. We had our wedding dinner there 30 years ago.
the food costs ten times more now...
This is awesome!! 🌊
Insurance must be outrageous
😂I 😂
Don’t worry I’m sure FEMA (you and I) will end up covering it
They save on the fire insurance
I ate there once for a work outing..
GREAT PLACE.
Wicked interesting. 🌊
Greetings from Boston Massachusetts! 👋🏽👋🏽
It reminded me of those videos during the storms of Scituate
How did they build
Back in the day at the beginning of the 1980's I rented a four bedroom house that went from the street down a cliff to the beach at Victoria Beach in Laguna Beach. Anyway, at the south end of the beach there was a condo building that had the same curved wall like the restaurant has. Storm waves would hit the wall and go up and curve backwards. The waves would tower way up like they were going to obliiterate the condos but instead they curved back into the ocean.
That is God who controls everything!! ✝️💙
@@walkingfree21 Yea, except man designed and built the wall!
This makes me anxious to watch let alone eat there......................................😱😱😱😭😭😭
That's awesome ,nice place, I'll put it in my bucket list.
Maybe keep that bucket handy.
Okay thanks 👌
We should use this method for houses near beaches to protect against hurricanes.
I have always loved that place. Perfect spot to go snorkeling and swimming. The only thing that sucks are all the stringrays
Sea life in the ocean is ironic?
I prefer the High Tide Brunch. A beautiful experience for the palette & the eyes!
Our family once had dinner there and my Yellow Tail jumped off my plate and right back into the sea!
I was certified as an open water diver after completing my beach entry right in front of the marine room in 1983. Five of us entered with one instructor three of us completed the test. Two had to be drug back onto the beach. Good times
We ate there while in town and its well worth it
I have nightmares like this. Being inside a building and swallowed by waves...
I have nightmares as well. I wouldn’t mind dining there at low tide. But waves crashing against windows is unnerving.
It looks depressing to me. Large bodies of water scare me, you can’t trust them.
That's called a ship wreck.
This is scary
Just bring in your snorkeling gear or scuba diving gear and you'll survive.
Face your fears.
If you go to the beach with a picnic basket, you'll get to touch the water while relaxed..
This is just one way to feed ego..
All sorts of fun stuff you can do with those curved seawalls (and other textures). I'm surprised it's almost never done.
Yeah, Love me some Curved sealwalls 🤪😝😜😛👀
when does it get 'fun'?
Pretty cool
Place is very unique my wife and I once got some free drinks and a table right by the window at high tide for putting some entitled old man in his place for harassing the hosts 😂. One of our favorites for special occasions
It's a shame they encourage the type of behaviour.
its okay- he passed away in 2015
Pretty cool. I don’t do reservations or pay that much for food though.
There's a well known restaurant located on the coast of the big island of Hawaii where huge waves hit the windows of the dining room.
...but the name of that 'famous' place escapes you??
Ooooooh tennis club from the 1930’s makes sense. I was wondering why we aren’t talking about why all these buildings are directly on the coastline.
I had my prom night dinner there back in. 1980 and so did My mother during her prom night in 1956
Aww. Nice to hear.
Cool place. Had lunch a few times around 1980.
Wow, but It freaks me out😅👍
I remember when the windows blew out in 1982. That season was a fought one up and down the coast.
did it get glass in your cream brulee?
I used to work there 22 years ago. Nice place.
Was or is?
Pretty amazing!!!
Ate there as a teen in the 90s, pre culinary school and it was superb
I'm looking at the pictures and the presentation is very contemporary and fun AND... I don't see any foam. (No sea foam.) Which is a plus. But it does appear to be one of those places that thinks meat should be served raw. I disagree with that. I lived with a guy who considered himself a foodie. He thought raw meat had the authentic flavour, that it was how it was meant to be eaten...
- To me raw tastes like raw. I don't know if that's because I'm missing the important "make raw shit taste good" gene, or if that guy was a preening liar. Wait, I do know.
- Meat was not "meant" to be eaten. There was no intelligent design creating meat so that humans would have a food source that was particularly yummy in a given state.
- "Fire has also influenced human biology, assisting in providing the high-quality diet which has fuelled the increase in brain size through the Pleistocene." In short, humans are 'meant' to cook their meat.
I'm glad the public owns the beaches here in Oregon, but this is interesting.
The public owns the beaches in California, too.
gavin newsom owns our beaches- MASK UP!
I remember in '82 when that place got trashed, along with the Poseidon, aka Fire Pit restaurant in Del Mar. We saw their dining room furniture floating down our street. That was a crazy year!
Talk about have a last meal , it's to die for
Im about to go book tickets to fly from Florida. See y’all soon!
"I don't get the hype about this restaurant. Every time I try to get in I'm turned away". Ocean.
Must have something to do with the way you're "waving" at the people in there. LMFAO.
@@MikeB-Android-Teacher I tried shouting but no one paid attention
@@jimjimgl3 - LMFAO!! I see what you did there, haha!!
maybe it was your 'vote blue' button....
You know what would be even better? A restaurant under a real waterfall in the middle of a tropical forest.
Better yet a restaurant inside of an active volcano
My favorite beachfront hotel in La Jolla got wiped out several years ago. I was shocked but, it was close to the water. The dining room looked out on the beach, basically a massive glass wall on that side, it was just a gorgeous breakfast experience and the buffet was impressive. I forgot but they may have rebuilt it.
That would be an amazing 👏 dinner 🍽 experience.
My anxiety would be on another level. I would not be able to relax, so as awesome as it probably is, I'd have to pass.
Impressive !!
Interesting, I wonder how this manages to skirt aside the California law that doesn't allow anyone to own the coast up to the high tide line. Is that restricted to only places with sand? Does the tide wall some how push that delineate that point because it's blocking the tide?
@Daniel Hollingsworth In other words things for the rich don't follow the rules 🤣🤣🤣
@@KBTadieh Did a little further digging into the law, saw that existing structures and those that provide protection, e.g. a seawall, are exempt, so while no one would build a building straight out on to the beach into the ocean if they build one and use a seawall for the foundation then it's kosher.
@@KBTadieh so they should just tear it down because of newer laws? It’s been there for decades, it brings immense pleasure to those who visit it, it’s historical. Nothing to do with the rich…what’s it like looking for negativity in everything? You must be a lib
@@KBTadieh 🤦
they bought jerry brown a brand new plymouth duster
Pretty cool 😎
Dude loves his building. And he’s clearly built it to last.
In a couple years, they will call it the submarine room
Yeah. Sure.
Thats really cool. Pretty unique experience by the looks of it.
I used to like San Diego and California, it’s too bad about what has happened there.
it sucks now- better stay home. can you believe what happened here?
Don’t know why but it seems scary to me, eventually the waves will make it inside. The wear and tear must be insane.
yeah but its not like you’re on a sinking cruise ship, if the waves make it inside you can just walk right out the building
@@e92e36 you are correct
you get a free drink when that happens
Never knew this place existed. Now I must go.
What a beautiful place:)
thanks for not giving us a shot of how the restaurant looks like during high tide. great choice!
How much is the insurance ??
@@terrisanturro1043 I believe that people who are not able to get insurance because of risk like this are able to get the US government (taxpayers) to insure it at a very low rate. I know that Mar-a-Lardo has this policy, it was explained on the news when a hurricane was approaching it. It a storm wipes out Mar-a-Lardo, it will be rebuilt at TAXPAYER expense. Many mansions and other oceanfront buildings owned by the very wealthy have this coverage. It's welfare for the wealthy.
That's pretty cool!
it's mindblowing that they can do all that, but we still can't figure out how to build houses underwater
Um....
HUH!
There are houses already under water. Little mind
We figured out how but the little extras are expensive. Like breathing.
I worked there for almost 4 years and I'm still blown away by that as well.
I’ll be there soon
I used to work in the Marine room Kitchen. It’s a disaster back there. First of all it’s below sea level so there is no drainage and at the end of the night the cooks are sludging in 2 inches of water in an attempt to clean the floors every day. They outsource their desserts because their ovens are so disgustingly old and rusted. Lowest paid job I ever had in a fine dining kitchen
Damn. That's not cool. I saw a person has to spend $100 minimum for food plus gratuity.
how unjust- they should have paid you what everybody else was making.
Men: the Titanic is unsinkable.
Today: This restaurant is unsinkable. Ok. Not coming.
I am thinking about going! 😃
Nope. You get the same effect on a cruise ship. Been there, done that , and never again. Mother Nature always overpowers humans.
just eat at the beach and tennis club- same kitchen- same grub.
Excellent installers, perfectionist manufacturers. That is the answer.
I think The Marine Room would be even better if the restaurant were extended farther out so as to be submerged full time and incorporated as an under the surface breakwater which would have dual purpose of added protection for the main structure and some stunning ambiance.
Call it the Captain Nemo Room.
Imagine the insurance premium for that joint
That's just anxiety inducing to me
Great ad.