Landing in San Francisco, An helped convert her mother-in-law’s Italian deli into what is now Thanh Long, hailed as the first Vietnamese restaurant in the city. As she slowly won over local diners, her success led to the opening of Crustacean San Francisco in 1991, and then Crustacean Beverly Hills six years later. Overlooking a sea of diners getting their last visits in, the three generations of An women reminisced about Crustacean’s 30-year run in Beverly Hills. “This location, there was nothing,” Helene said, on the corner of Bedford Drive that was home to medical offices and a Rite Aid when she opened Crustacean Beverly Hills in 1997. The post ‘We got our miracle’: Beverly Hills’ Crustacean gets a brief reprieve before closing for good appeared first on Los Angeles Times.