Details: Beer and wine no reservations.When: Lunch and dinner, every day breakfast, Friday through Sunday.Cuisine: Old School Seafood and Beer in a Barge on the Water.Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. Email Chowder Barge And though there’s no chowder for breakfast, there is a country fried steak with gravy, along with home fries, hash browns or, of all things, cottage cheese. The Barge is open for breakfast Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For me, the world of The Chowder Barge is the more soul satisfying. Walking up the ramp from The Chowder Barge, heading for the 110 or the 710, you may have a sense of returning back from one world to another. Where to find the South Bay’s best sausage, for summer’s dog daysĪnd to keep the vibe retro, there’s Taco Tuesday, Meatloaf Wednesday and Spaghetti Thursday. Heck, there are also BLTs and chili dogs. There’s salmon and swordfish plates for dinner too, along with top sirloin and ribeye. A swordfish salad, a salmon salad, a shrimp salad, a tuna salad.ĭressings are house-made - ranch, bleu cheese, balsamic, oil and vinegar, thousand island. A Fisherman’s Platter of fried fish, breaded shrimp, fried clams, french fries, coleslaw and cocktail sauce. Fish sandwiches made with fried cod, grilled salmon, and grilled swordfish. Fried shrimp, fried clams and fried calamari rings. There’s so much more - pounds of steamed clams and mussels served with garlic bread. It’s also just a tip of the proverbial chowder house iceberg.
This is chowder that’s reason enough to come here all by itself. The chowder runs from appetizer to entrée, all based on five options in size and fuss. The menu is well-named for chowder - the first dish listed, which ranges from basic clam chowder served in a cup, a porcelain bowl and a bread bowl…through a Double Clam Chowder made with a heavy load of fried clams…to a Triple Chowder where the fried clams are in a bread bowl. The menu at The Chowder Barge takes us into an alternative universe, food from the past nearby and distant - which it should certainly be.
But then, the menu at The Chowder Barge is thick with lots of stuff from back in the day. I haven’t seen a bottle of wine going for as little as $16 since Pluto was a pup. The bottles are BV Coastal, and they’re $16. The wines by the glass (Franzia) are $4.75. There are also six domestic bottles, and 17 imports and “specials” - including 805 and Stone IPA. You want a Modelo or a Stella Artois, they got that too. (I suspect the Dodgers are always playing here!) To make your bent elbow feel right at home, there are five draft beers, served in pints, in double-sized mugs called “Captains,” and in pitchers. It’s got a nice big counter/bar where every seat has a fine view of the big screens, which seem to always be showing the game of the moment. For those of the beer and baseball persuasion, The Chowder Barge is the near side of perfection.
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