Unusual - But Very Welcome!

"What is she babbling about now?!" you ask with some trepidation.  I write today of view restaurants and the often sad fact that while the view is wonderful, the food is decidedly not.

But what ho!  An exception!  Interesting and unusual view for, say, someone who lives in the Midwest.

Bluewater Grill, 665 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach, CA 310-318-FISH

It's a long, large room and the entire length of the building is generously windowed with great close up views of parked yachts, all buttoned up in their individual berths.  Naked masts pointed to the darkening skies.  Our server Justin told us that largely these are party boats (live-aboards are farther north) that the owners never take out very far and use solely for entertaining.

Very well, we are all rapt at this view plus idle speculation as to the owners and/or occupations that can get you a boat like some of these.  Enough awready!  What's to eat?

An enormous selection of fish, shell fish, with a little beef thrown in for those that have the nerve to order it in a fish restaurant.  Primarily steaks of various styles and sizes.

We dined there last night.  We started out with the prawn cocktail composed of four great big shrimp stacked artfully in a circle on the plate with a surround of the usual red cocktail sauce plus another ring of what tasted like pureed avocado.   Justin told us that shrimp were on sale and that it would be only $10 instead of the usual $15.  Well now, we nodded at each other.

Cloudy with promised occasional showers throughout the evening prompted our order for a cup each of lobster bisque.  $8.50 per cup.  It was very good and very filling as soup to start very often is.

Richie ordered the prawn linguini ($22.50) and I the panko fried  jumbo prawns ($17.50.)  These were a choice of coconut or panko so I tried that as I was intrigued by the idea of panko instead of coconut.  Beautifully crisp!  With cocktail sauce or an oil and vinegar and harissa sauce or one can ask for tartar sauce.  Next time …

Richie had a Tanqueray gin and tonic  ($10.25) and I had a couple of flutes of sparkling prosecco ($10 each.)  The total tab was 100.25  

We'll go back...