The Kickin' Crab Joins the Crustacean Nation

It was two years ago when the first Kickin' Crab opened in a Santa Ana storefront that previously saw two other concepts fail. I wondered then whether this Boiling Crab aspirant would buck the trend. Cut to two years later and it seems that not...

This week marks almost exactly one year to the day that I posted on the opening of Fish Grill Factory on this blog, a hopeful new entrant a block away from South Coast Plaza in Santa Ana that tried to copy the success of California Fish Grill by...

Another Cajun crawfish/crab/shrimp boil joint opened recently in Garden Grove, which makes it the umpteenth Cajun crawfish/crab/shrimp boil joint to open in Garden Grove. Before this one gets lost in the jumble, let's talk about the name. It's...

It was inevitable: Someone has launched a Vietnamese/Cajun crawfish business out of a food truck. Cruisin' Crawfish merges the previously divergent trends of the crawfish restaurant and the luxe lonchera movement. Please correct me if I am...

How can I convince you to try the Big Catch Seafood in downtown Long Beach, like, right now? Maybe I'll start by mentioning the ultra-convenient parking garage directly underneath the restaurant and that it validates. Or that the Big Catch offers...