Tonight we headed back down to
Newport Beach, CA, to indulge our seafood appetite with a visit to the locally-legendary
Crab Cooker restaurant. After a long wait of half an hour or so we were seated and feted with a memorable stream of tasty seafood. I sampled their large shrimp cocktail and smoked salmon appetizer followed by their combination plate main course washed down with Heineken beer. It was all very wonderful with a rather memorable Old California atmosphere. NOTE: my mother used to eat in this place back in the early to mid-1960's a half-century ago! One final note: check out my visit to this neighborhood earlier in the day
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Quintessential California Culinary Kitsch. |
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The line awaiting a table was long as was the wait but well worth it! |
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A half-block down Balboa Boulevard was the entrance to the pier we visited this morning. |
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This delightful California coastal Springtime sunset scene actually made me reconsider my internal ban against ever moving down this way and at this point I would only be wiling to live near the beach. |
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The Crab Cooker in neon at dusk. |
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).
I use to go there all the time when I lived up on the bluff from there... They made President Nixon wait to get in...
ReplyDeleteObviously they were Democrats! I wonder if the IRS audited the Crab Cooker after that wait. ;-p
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