Fisherman's Wharf

Gold Dust Lounge Re-Opening Postponed

For those of you who had Jan. 11 marked on your calendar with plans to hit the new Gold Dust Lounge for a really tall beer and some very familiar tunes, well, you'll just have to wait some more. Sadly, the old bar isn't quite ready for its patrons at the new Fisherman's Wharf location. As Owner Ni ... More >>

Gold Dust Lounge Can Legally Get Patrons Drunk Again

It's official: The Gold Dust Lounge will be shaking up cocktails again on New Year's Eve, when the historic watering hole is set to open at its new location -- with a big bash, of course. According to Lee Houskeeper, spokesman for the bar, city supervisors signed the necessary paperwork to allow the ... More >>

5 Places to Celebrate National Seafood Bisque Day

October 19th is National Seafood Bisque Day, so we have come up with 5 places for you to get your crustacean on. Bisque is a thick, creamy soup of French origin and is typically made from lobster, crab, shrimp, and crayfish. The term "bisque" is also sometimes used to refer to creamy soups made from ... More >>

PETA Tries to Turn San Francisco Grubbers Off Fish by Wearing Topless Mermaid Outfits

Call us horny, but aren't people supposed to be turned on by topless women? Leave it to PETA to make even that experience unpleasurable.People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is at it again, dreaming up the foolish and unfathomable in hopes that it can get people to stop being people. However, ... More >>

Porchetta Sandwich: Carmel Pizza Co. Wins Lunch

Bomb Squad Called to Fisherman's Wharf

San Francisco investigators are combing the area in Fisherman's Wharf where a suspicious package was found early this morning. At about 5:05 a.m., someone called police to report the suspicious package located at Beach and Mason streets, according to SFPD.

Eat This for Lunch Today: Porcetta Sandwich at Carmel Pizza Co.

Yesterday for lunch we popped over to Carmel Pizza Company at Fisherman's Wharf, because ever since we read about it a few weeks ago, visions of its porcetta sandwich have been dancing through our head. This version had less fat than previous porcetta sandwiches we've known and loved -- the fresh c ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Life Aquatic: Get out on the Bay

Shoe-Shamers: Aggressive Scammers Trap Tourists at the Wharf

Mission: Battleship Puts the 'Eat' in Fleet Week

Where: S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, Pier 45, Embarcadero (at Taylor) When: Thurs., Oct. 6th, 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cost: $30 online; 21 and over. Food and drink not included in entry price. The rundown: Fleet Week docks in San Francisco and kicking the party off like a bottle of champagne on a new ship is Mis ... More >>

Fog Harbor Fish House Cooks Sustainable Fish For the Masses

Photos by W. Blake GrayTrout ($18)​Fog Harbor Fish House recently became the first restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf to commit to using 100% sustainable seafood. SF Weekly had never written anything about the restaurant, so I joined the flock of German and French tourists walking down Embarcader ... More >>

Castagnola's Kitchen Walkout, Ryan Scott's New Place, and Groceries by Boat

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A packed restaurant with a kitchen staff walkout is among a manager's worst nightmares. Inside Scoop reports that Castagnola's kitchen staff walked out on the Fisherman's Wharf restaurant on Saturday at 7 ... More >>

Pizza and Belly Dancing, Taking on a Curse While Making Fresh Tofu, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Last week we mentioned two pizza places eyeing S.F., the opening of Pachino, and the shutdown of PizzaHacker. Just in case that wasn't enough pizza news, Fisherman's Wharf is getting ready to welcome a ne ... More >>

SF Weekly Webcam Show: Kinda Boring, Not Very Hot

Since SF Weekly staffers are always the ones looking and observing, it was a delight for us to get our 15 minutes of fame this afternoon. From our quaint offices in Fisherman's Wharf, we were able to spot ourselves via the Princess Cruise webcam while the cruise ship was docked along the Embarcadero ... More >>

Oh Yes, It's Nojo! And a Sustainable Seafood Market for the Wharf? Hell Yes!

Today in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. We'll let Inside Scoop call it: Nojo is now open at 231 Franklin St. (at Hayes) ― it's a mod, stylish-looking Hayes Valley izakaya place by longtime Ame presence Gregory Dunmore. And Bun Mee, a casual Viet fu ... More >>

Man Shot in Potrero Hill; Homicide No. 11

Rapid fire​Minutes before two merchants were found shot to death in Fisherman's Wharf, police officers were across town responding to another homicide in Potrero Hill.At about 8:15 p.m. Sunday, a man was shot and killed on the 900 block of Connecticut Street, outside an apartment building. Police ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Choripan with a Side of Soccer

Stefano C./YelpChoripan ($6.50)​Monday, June 14, 2010Last week when we visited Tanguito, the Argentinian food truck on Fisherman's Wharf, the sun was brilliant, the tables permanently installed next to the truck were packed, and the owners were tuning the flat-screen television they'd hooked onto ... More >>

Are Food-Focused Arizona Boycotts for Reals?

wisefly/FlickrCalls to boycott Cold Stone Creamery stores like the one in Fisherman's Wharf (pictured) have gone unheeded.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Cool to protest: Could efforts to boycott Arizona over the immigration law Governor Jan Brewer signed last Friday be seeping into your ... More >>

Have the Sea Lions of Pier 39 Left Earth for Space?

Few local news stories in recent memory have attracted as much international attention as the abrupt vanishing act pulled by the popular sea lions of Pier 39, who this fall deserted the docks where for decades they were wont to haul out and bask in the attention of tourists.Yearning for yet more dis ... More >>

Calling All Cheftestants: Top Chef Wants You, But Only If You're Assy Enough

Pocket Edward/FlickrShow up all Whitney and Bobby.​You definitely want to have kitchen skills and a touch of drama to make it as a Top Chef Season Seven contestant. Think you have what it takes? As reported today at SFist, Bay Area kitchen fiends should head down to the just-opened saloon in F ... More >>

'Road Rules'-Like Group of Christian College Students Rolling Through San Francisco

Tom Green would have been available for this 'road trip' as well...Hey, here's an idea for some great television. Take 10 young people -- and make 'em all good-looking and no older than 22. Give some of 'em an ethnic and big-city background, but make sure to get some country mixed in with that rock ... More >>

Five Signs that it's Spring in San Francisco

Spring has sprung, and unlike most of the country, San Francisco's weather isn't the best indicator of the fairest season's arrival. Instead, we have to look a little closer to find differences between now and a 70 degree day in January.1. It's Crazy Costume Season!The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgenc ... More >>

Wanna Win Some Money in a San Francisco Photo Contest? Since *This* Is The Photo On The Web Page Announcing the Prize, We Think You've Got a Shot.

sftravel.comThis is a prize-winner?If you're willing to -- definitely -- grant others "a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right to copy, crop, edit, publish, display, distribute, sublicense or otherwise use" your photographs, and -- very remotely -- have a chance of winning 100 bucks, boy do w ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

The Scalawags of Fisherman's Wharf

Dishonest and unsavory fishermen have found a home at the docks, where rent is cheap.

You Do Too Have to Live Like A Refugee

What You Do with a Drunken Sailor

Cracked Up

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

Leak From the Deep

Nobody knows for sure what kind of oily polutant is seeping into the water at Fisherman's Wharf

Night+Day San Francisco

By Julianne Balmain and Kate Chynoweth

Best Swimming

Best Cheap Bed

Chinatown's Blowout

When dragons invade San Francisco

Get Crabs

Cruise and chow on the bay

Twilight Zone

The Rock goes dark

Eat Our Dust, Muni!

Man vs. machine in annual clash

Best Hike for History Buffs

Barbary Coast Trail

Art & Politics Do Too Mix

Slogans "R" Us

Am I Blue

Characterless chowders and seafood seem at home in the too-casual Blue Mermaid

Best Place to Take a Kid for a Meal

Rainforest Café

Best Tourist-Free Place to Take a Tourist for Lunch

Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe

Best Mobile Landmarks

Best Reason to Go to Fisherman's Wharf

Eagle Cafe

Night Crawler

Games People Play

Best Local Example of Art Deco

Muni's Streetcars, Market Street, et al.

Movie Palace

Ana Mandara

Dog Bites

Our New Mission

Dog Bites