The Cook’s Seafood sign has been tempting Pleasanton diners for 7 long years. The restaurant is finally opening next week.

Seven years is a long time to wait for a fabulous fresh seafood meal But it turns out that diners can bank on the Pleasanton promise made by Cook s Seafood a Menlo Park mainstay for almost a century The Koll Center restaurant at Bernal Road will ultimately open to customers with a soft opening scheduled for next week according to the updated Cook s Pleasanton website Here s the backstory In February the restaurant s th birthday year the Crumrine ownership family declared they would expand for the first time They selected a space on Bernal Road just off Interstate the high-visibility path to the Alameda County fairgrounds and the busy downtown They had hoped to open in a limited months by spring of that year We recounted readers to head to El Camino Real for a taste if they couldn t wait until then There Cook s combines a restaurant with a fresh fish territory The top seller in the field has been crab In the restaurant it s the fish and chips and it s a big hit with customers because the battered fish is Alaskan halibut not the more common cod or haddock That s what we re known for You can t find that just anywhere a manager explained at the time Meanwhile the Pleasanton sign went up and there it stayed tempting foodies for years In an opening appeared imminent But that didn t happen during the pandemic year In the intervening years life happened a member of the management group narrated us and the project was put on the back burner But Bay Area News Group readers kept inquiring Will there ever be a Cook s Seafood in Pleasanton one questioned us in before the questions stopped coming We re emailing her right now with the newsy update Related Articles Inside Pamilya Redwood City s new fast-casual Filipino restaurant KBBQ mobile robot kitchen opens San Mateo brick-and-mortar restaurant Take a pet-friendly foodie day trip to Bodega Bay Guatemalan restaurant eyes two San Jose locations in expansion push Doing Mother s Day brunch in the South Bay Details Hours are evolving at the new Cook s Seafood Koll Center Parkway Pleasanton Check https cooksseafoodpleasanton com The Menlo Park flagship restaurant and field opens at a m Monday-Saturday and serves until or p m at El Camino Real The sphere opens earlier at a m www cooksseafood com This is a growing story Come back for updates