The 14 Best Restaurants In Newport Beach - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"A bona fide Newport classic, Crab Cooker is where families roll in after soccer games to eat chowder bowls and crack crab legs under a wall-mounted mermaid. The gigantic space is part seafood market and part seafood shack, and it’s decorated like a nautical museum with fish statues and floaties plastered everywhere. Kids can color on placemats, while parents drink draft beer and excavate crab meat. Get the tangy Manhattan-style clam chowder—it’s glorious with their house bread. If you’re not in the mood to work for your crab, the crab cakes, soft-shell crab, and shrimp and scallop skewers are solid back-ups." - cathy park