🦀 Dungeness Crab & Cioppino

California's oldest restaurant, since 1849. Mahogany booths, white-jacketed waiters, cioppino and sand dabs. Sit at the counter if the wait's long.

Cramped, loud, joyful old-school Italian seafood. The cioppino ('best in the city,' the menu insists) is enormous. Go early, share everything.

The An family's Vietnamese-Californian spot famed for secret-recipe roasted crab and garlic noodles.

Original home of butter-soaked roasted crab and famous garlic noodles.

Tiny marble-counter Castro institution for cioppino, oysters and crab Louie.

Bay Bridge views and floor-to-ceiling aquarium pillars over a raw-bar feast.

Salt-and-pepper Dungeness crab with crispy fried garlic

Buttery griddled Dungeness crab roll with chives

Wharf classic for cioppino and Oysters alla Scoma with brandy-garlic aioli