Jack of three trades, and master of one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On South Cole Road in Boise there is a restaurant called O Crab Cajun Seafood and Bar. As their Cajun name suggests, and the menu shows, they are masters of seafood boils and fried seafood (baskets and po’ boy sandwiches). But their menu also has a couple of Italian pasta dishes listed: seafood marinara and Cajun shrimp alfredo. 

 

I have been getting tabloid mailings with their monthly menus which have added other genres. One had Japanese (special sushi rolls or ramen). Another had Hawaiian (poke bowls). So far there are four genres, as shown above by a Venn diagram.

 

Perhaps next month they will go Mexican - with seafood tacos and burritos, or Greek - with gyros, or Indian with curries.  

 

Yesterday I drove by Capital Auto Body at 5373 Emerald Street in Boise. Their sign says “All Foreign & Domestic.” Long ago the Car Talk radio show on NPR had joked about repair shops saying that we specialize in all makes, foreign and domestic.

 

The location for O Crab used to be a McGrath’s Fish House, which closed in 2020. McGrath’s once had 21 restaurants, but now just has two in Salem, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington.