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Crab Catcher

Crab Catcher

 

Perched atop an oceanside bluff in La Jolla, the Crab Catcher offers a spectacular view. The elevated dining room overlooks waves crashing onto La Jolla Cove set before an elegant backdrop of the coastline. Chef Jon Burwell’s impressively extensive menu celebrates the ocean’s bounty with dishes such as king crab-stuffed Hawaiian Ono served with chili-garlic puree and dill-infused buerre blanc; he also showcases his range of talent in select non-seafood dishes such as charbroiled herb-marinated rack of Australian lamb with California peaches, montrachet goat cheese, and roasted shallot pinot noir reduction. The atmosphere, if anyone can take their eyes off the view or the dishes, is comfortable and quaint, almost intentionally unpretentious so as to let the view and cuisine shine.

 

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Customer Reviews

Restaurant: Trattoria Acqua   Rating: Rating   Date: September.01.2008

User Name: Linda

Review Title: Management and/or ownership bad view on kids
We dined at the restaurant in July and were greeted at the front door by a lovely hostess, she took us to a booth. Right after I, my husband and our 4 year old son had been seated I hear an older lady (I believe she was the owner) ask the hostess how she could have seated a party with a kid at the booth, she went on to tell her that she needs to move us to another table so our "kid" won't mess up their booth. I couldn't believe my ears!!! I expressed my disappointment to my husband but he calmed me down and urged me to just keep calm and just go along with it. We were not asked to move but after overhearing her say what she said, the meal was already ruined as we did not feel welcome because we have a child. A CHILD! Since when is it frowned upon to go out to dinner with the entire family??? The food was good but I will never return, there are far too many restaurant that are happy to accommodate everybody in the family (especially in this economy).

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