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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Dig into pounds of crawfish at new Mountain View restaurant
Uploaded: May 31, 2019
Throw on a bib and dig into a bag of crawfish at Crawfish Bros, newly opened at 124 Castro St. in downtown Mountain View.
The restaurant recently replaced
Chop & Pub but according to alcohol license records, remains under the previous ownership. (The location has been a revolving door of concepts, from an oyster bar that became a taco eater that became a tapas restaurant before the owner of Chop & Pub took over.)
The newly opened Crawfish Bros in downtown Mountain View. Photo by Elena Kadvany.
At Crawfish Bros, customers have their pick of crawfish, clams, shrimps, mussels, crab and lobster, which can be made with different sauces (cajun, "torpedo," lemon pepper and garlic butter) and at three spice levels (mild, hot and screaming). The fish comes with sausage, corn and potatoes.
If you're feeling ambitious, there’s the "ultimate combo:" 3 pounds of crawfish, 3 pounds of head-on shrimp, one pound of half-shell mussels and 1 pound of clams with sausage, corn and potatoes for $100.
Appetizers include spicy Cajun wings, chicken katsu, fried soft shell crab, fried catfish fillets and scallops.
The restaurant is offering a grand opening special through Saturday, June 1, according to posters in the windows: $3 crawfish and free beer with any "combo" order.
Crawfish Bros is open from 4-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 4-10 p.m. Friday and noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and closed Monday, per hours posted in the window.
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