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Bluewater Grill
Step up to the oyster bar, order a dozen on the half shell then sit back and watch the sun call it a day. For dinner, pick your fresh fish from the list then let the pros cook it any way you like. Garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed spinach(!) are can't-miss. The houseboat crowd slips in from the adjacent marina by for super-cheap happy-hour prices.
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Crustacean
Push through the posh French Colonial doors and follow the glass-covered koi pond to the elegant but accessible main dining room. Favorites on the seafood-centric menu include drunken crab, royal tiger prawns, and garlic noodles or garlic mashed potatoes. Reservations recommended.
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Lobster
Chef Allyson Thurber crafts lobster and seafood specials as stunning as the oceanfront views at this lively pierside perch. Tables are tight and the noise levels high, but that's de rigueur at the beach.
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R23
Frank Gehry-designed cardboard chairs are the seat du jour inside the minimalist redbrick interior of this popular sushi hideaway. At the sushi bar, exquisite daily specialties are masterfully prepared, but gracious chefs won't throw newbies to the curb for ordering California rolls.
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Rock'n Fish
Sometimes it's about the blackened halibut, sometimes it's about the smokin' waitstaff, but it's always, always about the sour apple martini at sexy Rock'n Fish, just steps from the Manhattan Beach Pier. Part seafood restaurant, part upscale bar, this appropriately named hangout is an always-popular fallback. Great for group dinners or an early date, it's boisterous once the martini crowd flows in.
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The Hump
Romance runs high behind the bamboo-accented windows at this tiny but superb rooftop sushi bar with stellar views of private planes soaring off to the great unknown. The Hump - an aviators' nickname for the Himalayas - is perched on the 3rd floor of the Santa Monica Airport building just above bustling Typhoon (3221 Donald Douglas Loop S, 2nd fl), where the Pan-Asian specialties menu includes crickets.
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The Hungry Cat
Hollywood hep cats know their way to the zinc raw bar at Suzanne Goin and David Lentz's seafood hideaway - tucked behind Borders books - where peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell and savory fish du jour specials shine. For seafood-avoiders, the hefty Pug Burger is a must, a smoky affair memorably slathered with avocado, bacon and blue cheese.
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