Celebrity King Crab

On a weekend trip to Seattle last summer, I ate the most gigantic king crab one night and lived to tell about it. This summer, the one pictured here at Miami’s The Oceanaire Seafood Room took the cake (at about $130 per kilo!). The restaurant is part of a smallish U.S. chain with an eye out for fresh, sustainable seafood. Their Alaskan king crab is caught from the waters of the Bering Sea and featured on Discovery Channel’s hit show Deadliest Catch. The amiable and accommodating Oceanaire executive chef Sean Bernal will be on the boat, Time Bandit this October at the invitation of the crew. There are more than a dozen kinds of fresh fish on the ever-changing menu everyday at this 1930s ocean liner-like resto – everything from snapper to wolffish. And there’s also a bartender who’s a dead ringer for Bluto from Popeye. Saw it myself! Visit theoceanaire.com.
- Doug Wallace, Deputy Editor