The Crab Cooker
The Crab Cooker is a popular Southern California restaurant specializing in seafood, located on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. The restaurant is housed in an old branch building of the Bank of America located at 22nd & Newport Blvd. The logo of the bank prior to its merger with NationsBank can still be seen embedded in the corner of the building. It was established in 1951 and is considered a local landmark.
The outside of the restaurant is painted in bright red. Inside the restaurant, the decoration is a pastiche of unique items ranging from paintings by famous artists, theater chandeliers, pots and pans, a wrought-iron gate, nautical equipment – and a giant shark.[5] The restaurant is known for its casual atmosphere.[6] While a favorite local haunt, tourists from around the world visit to sample the cuisine and send one of their post cards, eat off of paper plates, and see the iconic fish sign. It is not uncommon to see patrons waiting in lines snaking down the street. These lines once elevated The Crab Cooker to national headlines when advance staff for then President Richard Nixon once asked to allow the president to be seated for dinner, and the staff informed them that the president would have to wait along with rest of the folks (any president would have gotten the same treatment)
The Crab Cooker
The Crab Cooker is a popular Southern California restaurant specializing in seafood, located on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. The restaurant is housed in an old branch building of the Bank of America located at 22nd & Newport Blvd. The logo of the bank prior to its merger with NationsBank can still be seen embedded in the corner of the building. It was established in 1951 and is considered a local landmark.
The outside of the restaurant is painted in bright red. Inside the restaurant, the decoration is a pastiche of unique items ranging from paintings by famous artists, theater chandeliers, pots and pans, a wrought-iron gate, nautical equipment – and a giant shark.[5] The restaurant is known for its casual atmosphere.[6] While a favorite local haunt, tourists from around the world visit to sample the cuisine and send one of their post cards, eat off of paper plates, and see the iconic fish sign. It is not uncommon to see patrons waiting in lines snaking down the street. These lines once elevated The Crab Cooker to national headlines when advance staff for then President Richard Nixon once asked to allow the president to be seated for dinner, and the staff informed them that the president would have to wait along with rest of the folks (any president would have gotten the same treatment)