Landmark Newport Beach Restaurant To Temporarily Close

NEWPORT BEACH, CA -- The landmark restaurant, Crab Cooker, will close for about a year beginning in 2018. The building housing the restaurant apparently suffered "irreparable damage to the foundation" three years ago, according to a report by The Los Angeles Times.

"The damage happened more than three years ago as the result of underground construction mishaps at the neighboring Vue Newport condominium development," the newspaper reported of the 79-year-old building.

Marice DePasquale, a government relations consultant for the business, told the Times that "elements will be saved, such as the awnings, the 19th-century outdoor lighting sconces, the panels on the facade depicting clipper ships at full sail, the front door, handcarved by founder Bob Roubian, and, if the city agrees to it, the fish sign."

--Photo by Cheyenne Paddock