Long enough for Tarcress to finish cooking sand dabs.

He ate his sand dabs slowly, drank a lot of iced tea, looked out the window.

Ingredients are locally sourced, including seafood such as Dungeness crab and sand dab.

Vince started with sand dabs, which were new to me, a flat fish like a thumb-length halibut.

Vince had me try one of the sand dabs, neatly ushering it onto my bread plate.

Among the specialties are sauteed sand dabs and grilled duck.

Appropriately, it specializes in local seafood such as sand dabs, salmon, calamari and California lobster.

Specials are appealing, too: the local sand dabs were superb.

Try the sand dab with lemon and parsley butter (£11.25).