The Verdict
FISHING WITH DYNAMITE is David LeFevre's Manhattan Beach New England seafood restaurant on Manhattan Avenue whose raw bar and lobster roll communicate what the East Coast maritime seafood tradition looks like when the California beach community most sympathetic to the Atlantic fishing culture provides the most naturally appropriate available backdrop. The raw bar whose Pacific and Atlantic selections communicate direct engagement with both the California and East Coast oyster producers; the lobster roll whose preparation communicates genuine knowledge of what the New England tradition requires; and the Manhattan Beach setting whose specific South Bay beach town energy communicates the most naturally maritime available Southern California neighbourhood for the East Coast seafood format.
Why It Works for a First Date
Fishing with Dynamite's Manhattan Beach raw bar and lobster roll — the East Coast maritime culture applied in the South Bay beach town, the LeFevre culinary intelligence, the neighbourhood energy — creates the first date that communicates genuine knowledge of where Los Angeles's most New England-sympathetically available seafood experience is practised.
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