Franciscan Crab Restaurant
Seafood Market in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf is a landing spot for many aspects of seafoods, but a glance at the big sign overlooking the parking lot (or at the smaller signs posted around the city pointing the way to the wharf) gives a clue to which is most important. Both signs feature the distinctive shape of Dungeness crab, one of the treasures of the West Coast fish market, and the symbol of the Golden Gate fishing industry. Most of the year, but especially in winter, the air around the wharf carries the scent of crabs boiling in huge outdoor pots, to be sold in walk-away crab cocktails.
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read moreTourist-filled locales like Fisherman's Wharf are not always known for good taste-and that goes for the food as well as the kitsch-filled shops. That may be why Franciscan Crab has succeeded so well since it pulled ashore in 1957, "like a docked yacht waiting to head out to sea, " in the words of restaurant critic Michael Bauer of the San Francisco Chronicle. The food, by most accounts, is fairly good, especially the crab (when you can get it). Also winning praise have been the Caesar salad and fish and chips.