Post #777804 by CosmoReverb on Thu, Jul 13, 2017 4:53 PM

On 2017-07-13 15:15, mike and marie wrote:

On 2012-10-14 08:08, tikilongbeach wrote:

http://www.stockteam.com/harpoon_harrys.html

Harpoon Harry's in Sunset Beach, California
UPDATE: Business is being renovated and will become another restaurant under the Schooner or Later (Alamitos Landing, Long Beach) umbrella. Reports say similar menu will be served to the harborside restaurant a few miles north.

Harpoon Harry's Restaurant 16821 Pacific Coast Hwy. Sunset Beach, CA 90742

This place was fabulous and very authentic. Wish we had more photos of it than we do, but grateful for what we got. We don't know why LA area tiki peeps and retros never gave it much love ... most we talked to had never heard of it! The fine dining restaurant area was like Fox's in Miami and the big nautical bar area was as good as anything you would see in places like Hermosa Beach back in the heyday, as good as the Chowder Barge (another place LA tiki peeps don't seem to give much love to) ... with that other nautical place across the street (Captain Johns?) and Turc's and of course Don's that was a nice little strip of lost nautical / tiki to visit. It was wreckovated into a hipster type place a few years ago with no character at all and we think that has subsequently closed. Damn shame.

Just an "FYI" update on the current state of the former Harpoon Harry's location. The Schooner or Later franchise that took its place shut down recently and a (presumably, based on the name) Hawaiian place called "Ohana" opened up soon after.

Oh and the nautical place across the street that you were thinking of is "Captain Jack's"