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No Fish Tale A San Diego native rides a longtime dream from busboy to business owner his future. ere, as an 18-year-old busboy, he developed an insatiable interest and desire to learn all he could about the seafood business, setting him on a course that began as a vision binder while he was a student at UCLA and would ultimately become Nico's Fish Market, a now two-year-old pop-up fish market and restaurant set to open a permanent location later this year in Pacific Beach. T HOUGH HIS HISTORY IS THAT OF A kid growing up along San Diego's beautiful coast, surfing from the time he could swim, it was working at El Pescador Fish Market La Jolla that lit the fire for Nico Gibbons to make the ocean — or, more accurately, its bounty — BY DEANNA MURPHY | PHOTO BY VINCENT KNAKAL Indulge dining Nico Gibbons ranchandcoast.com 84 JUNE 2024 RANCH & COAST MAGAZINE