The story of Cape Town Fish Market is the story of creating a restaurant that strives to create a great experience for our customers. It is a restaurant built on fresh ingredients, a relaxing atmosphere, and, most of all, great-tasting seafood and sushi. But we didn’t create a world-class restaurant overnight. The Cape Town Fish Market you know and love today is the result of almost two decades of passion and hard work by CTFM’s founder, Douw Krugmann and his family, in partnership with the best franchise owners in South Africa. His wife, sons and daughter have all joined the family business and have played an integral role in making CTFM what it is today.It all began in 1997, when Douw bought a small fresh fish restaurant in Cape Town’s famous V&A Waterfront. After operating a Spur Steak Ranch for 13 years, it was the next step in his lifelong quest to improve the restaurant experience in South Africa. The small restaurant happened to also sell fresh seafood for customers to take home, and, after experiencing how much better fresh fish tasted when compared to the frozen variety most other restaurants serve, the idea for Cape Town Fish Market was born.