Pushing the boundaries [restaurant review]
Pier 76 Fish Grill manager Sarai Melchor and host Sylvia Perez at the oyster bar. Photo . Years ago I worked with someone who spent much time thinking about numbers. He was a tour organizer rather than an accountant, and he believed that combinations of digits had a psychological connection. He priced his excursions based on this theory, which drove management crazy because profits were always slightly off from their projections. The new Pier 76 Fish Grill on Rosecrans at least has some logic behind its name, because both founders were born in that year. Their first restaurant debuted in Long Beach in 2014, and the one that recently opened at Apollo Landing is the fifth. This might not seem like news, because lots of fast casual fish houses have opened with the same pattern: choose your fish, then customize it with your preferred cooking method and sides. Pay at the counter, take your number, and make a trip to the soda machine if you ordered one. It’s not particularly creative, but it turns out quick, relatively inexpensive, and tasty basic seafood meals. Pier 76 pushes the concept significantly with an oyster bar and a wider than usual variety of fish, which is paired with…
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