Redondo Beach, Los Angeles · restaurant
The seafood hummus—a vadouvan-spiced base piled with lump crab, lobster, mussels, and octopus—is the kind of starter that derails the rest of the ordering process. Live jazz plays most nights while tableside caviar, Hampton crab cakes, and dry-aged Flannery steaks lean hard into East Coast coastal-club territory. The only reminder you're in California is the Pacific sitting just outside.