crustacean

i’ve been going tocrustaceanfor 20 years. on mother’s day they had a special in which they did not honor. the manager and the part owner were extremely rude when i demanded they honor the special they advertised. the part owner told me he is the omega and i can’t speak to anyone higher that him. he also went so far as to say he could careless who i tell about the treatment he gave me. he said tell who ever you want. i don’t care. the next few days they pulled the same scam on my friend however honored her request when she demanded they honor their advertisement. when she got her order not only did they not honor the advertisement as agreed they purposely didn’t put items in her bag she paid for.crustaceancustomer service has gone down tremendously over the years and i will never step foot in the establishment again after the horrible treatment i received. the phone calls with the manager and the part owner left me in tears for a few days. that is how bad they treated me.

by guest blogger bryan tsunoda @btsunodacrustaceanin beverly hills has been around for quite some time. the roasted crab and their famous garlic noodles are crowd pleasers and whatcrustaceanis best known for. despite its name,crustaceanis so much more than that and i recently had the opportunity to sample some of their new offerings.crustaceanis also known for its “secret kitchen.” a closed door kitchen within a kitchen, it’s where some of the restaurant’s most coveted dishes are prepared. since their opening in 1997, only six dishes have been created in the secret kitchen. now, there's a new secret kitchen item that we'll be tasting tonight. as i entered crustacean, a three piece jazz ensemble provided entertainment to the bar patrons. the walk on water entrance features a serpentine shaped aquarium that doubles as a floor. it was obvious thatcrustaceanis still a place to be seen as everyone seated at the bar had the required ‘look’. our group was led outside through the sid

from its secret kitchen to its opulent colonial decor including the famous winding 80 foot long "walk on water" sunken floor aquarium at the entrance to its impeccable service, and of course the food, one can see whycrustaceanstrongly withstands the test of time in this fickle city.

sometimes you can have a fabulous restaurant that serves delectable food, yet disappointing desserts. this is the unfortunate case for the famous vietnamese/pan-asian restaurant,crustacean. whilecrustaceanrestaurant originated in san francisco, i've o

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great food but.... if i could give this place zero stars i would. my boyfriend and i had been tocrustaceanonce before and really enjoyed their garlic dungeness crab and garlic noodles. so when valentine's day rolled around i suggested we spend our first valentines day here. big mistake. the hostess sat us upstairs which at the time i thought was way cool since i'd never eaten upstairs before but this time the circumstances were different...i'll get to that later.

first the menu was a special valentines pre-fixe menu that was $95 each with an added on 18% gratuity. if i had known this we probably could have waited until monday to go but my boyfriend is so wonderful he didn't even blink at paying that price. the first course was an array of weird stuff i guess the kitchen just wanted to try out, ahi tuna on a tortilla chip, hamburger on a stick (was yummy), watermelon, and shrimp wrapped in some kind of seaweed. next came our crab and garlic noodles which was just as yummy as i remembered, and then dessert, some cheesecake puff and chocolate pudding thing that they could have kept in the kitchen. but overall the meal was good, not $95 good, but good.

now let's go back to revisit that seating arrangement thing. after we were seated upstairs i looked around and noticed that there were quite a few african american couples seated around the dining room and as the night went on the tables around us filled up with more african american couples which struck me as odd since i remember the clientele during our previous visit had been very mixed. so when my boyfriend got up to go downstairs to the restroom i jokingly told him to see if there were any black people downstairs. much to my surprise and lament, when he returned he told me no.

dinner came and went and so we got ready to leave. i really thought my boyfriend was joking around when he said there were no black people downstairs until i got down to the last step to enter the downstairs dining room where there were nothing but white couples and a few asian people sprinkled in here and there. i was totally shocked and my boyfriend had to grab my hand and pull me towards the exit because i was just in awe at how different the dining room was. i mean we're on day 14 of black history month and this restaurant looks like woolworth's in 1962.

needless to say, the ceo is going to hear about this and i suggest that everyone on here rethink going to this restaurant that obviously doesn't believe in treating their customers equally.

lives up to its billing. we had the wonderful opportunity to eat atcrustaceanwhile visiting la from nc. located in an enticing area of beverly hills, the restaurant invites you in with an aquarium of large saltwater fish facing the corner at the street. inside, a three foot wide stream full of koi fish extends to the rear of the restaurant. it is covered with plexiglass so you literally walk over the stream to your seating. the menu has a beautiful history of the an family who left vietnam after the war and went from an aristocratic life to working 12 hours day at their first restaurant in sf. the dungeness crab is prepared in accordance with a secret family recipe and it was phenomenal. sweet and succulent. the sea bass was perfectly prepared as were the vegetables sauteed with garlic. service was great and the maitre'd constanly made rounds to ensure that guests were treated properly. the place was packed on a wednesday night. i highly recommend this restaurant.

vietnamese, beverly hills, and garlic noodles equalscrustaceanour food adventure tonight brought us to crustacean. originally we had planned elsewhere, but we were too late in planning and couldn't get a decent time for the ten of us. fortunately, one o

get crusted!. an excellent dining experience!crustaceanis always on the list of stops when i have out of town guests. it's a marriage of the east & the west!