For fresh seafood, the Cracked Crab is a Pismo Beach institution. Open daily for lunch at 11 a.m. through dinner (9 p.m. on weekdays, 10 p.m. on weekends), the Cracked Crab is a casual restaurant with appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, tacos, and fresh fish entrees. The house specialty is buckets of seafood you select, from king crab to lobster to shrimp to clams to Dungeness crab. One-pound crab dinners are also available.