The Long Beach branch of Chicken Dijon–which used to be at 6332 E Pacific Coast Hwy., and one that our wonderful Sarah Bennett reviewed for her column, Long Beach Lunch–is long gone. And now Ocean Market Grill has moved in.
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What is Ocean Market Grill? It's a fast-casual seafood restaurant in the spirit of California Fish Grill. And just as you could use more fish in your diet, the restaurant scene needs more California Fish Grill-inspired restaurants like this.
Long Beach already has Pier 76 Fish Grill, which recently moved, and probably others that I'm not yet aware of; but Ocean Market Grill serves an area of the city that up until now has been the territory of more up-market, old school seafood joints like Crab Pot and Boathouse on the Bay.
So I welcome Ocean Market Grill and hope, someday soon, that it might be a subject for Ms. Bennett's Long Beach Lunch!
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.