Fisherman's Wharf

Feng Xian Yang Ng Identified as Elderly Woman Found Floating in Harbor

San Francisco police are investigating another suspicious death, this one involving a 75-year-old woman who was found floating in the Hyde Street Harbor at Fisherman's Wharf Friday afternoon. The Medical Examiner's Office this morning identified the woman as Feng Xian Yang Ng, a San Francisco resi ... More >>

Where to Eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

This Christmas, instead of slaving away in your kitchen for hours making a delicious meal to feed relatives you might not like that much anyway, consider eating out and letting some of the best chefs in the city cook for you instead. On Christmas Eve, Hubert Keller's Fleur de Lys will be serving a f ... More >>

DeLise Dessert Cafe Puts Asian Twist on Rice Krispies Treats

The husband and wife team of Dennis and Eloise Leong run the three-year-old DeLise Dessert Cafe, an intimate place for sweets in the Fisherman's Wharf area. The below-the-radar spot serves some of the city's best ice cream, cupcakes, and bars with frequent seasonal twists. Luckily, one of our favori ... More >>

Hug Monsters: The Anti-Semitic Elmo Has Some Ugly Pals

Stop Eating Seafood, Say Topless Mermaid-Costume-Wearing PETA Members

If you happen to find yourself at Fisherman's Wharf during lunch tomorrow with a hankering for some delicious steamed crab or clam chowder, you might get more than you've bargained for - our news editor Erin Sherbert reports on The Snitch that PETA will be on hand wearing mermaid fins and little els ... More >>

Sex Offender Who Escaped From Mental Health Facility Found Panhandling in S.F.

A San Mateo County sex offender is in jail today after he escaped from a Mental Health facility Friday and made his way to San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf where he was reportedly seen panhandling. Derrick Sanders, 34, was reported missing from the Cordilleras Mental Health Facility around 4 a.m. o ... More >>

Lawsuit Accusing Hooters of Mistreating Employees Can Proceed

​A class-action lawsuit brought against a group of Bay Area Hooters restaurants by the establishments' waitresses can proceed, a state appeals court ruled this week, denying the restaurants' claim that the employees' complaints should be settled by a labor arbitrator and not in court.In a decision ... More >>

Hooters Flees San Francisco

San Francisco, you've been cut off.​Sad-ish news: Hooters, and its shorty-short-wearing waitresses, is leaving San Francisco, SFist reported yesterday. The national chain will be closing up its only location in the city -- at Jefferson and Leavenworth in the Fisherman's Wharf -- on December 21. It ... More >>

Fresh Herring to Be Sold in SF This Winter

fresh herring​Ever wonder where the many tons of fish landed by San Francisco Bay's commercial herring fleet throughout the winter go? There's a growing market for local and sustainable seafood, but the bay's herring -- an inexpensive fish that lends itself to a variety of preparations -- doesn't ... More >>

Did You Feel That Earthquake?

We sure did from the seventh floor of our building in Fisherman's Wharf. The USGS is reporting a 3.9 quake happened at about 2:41 p.m. near Berkeley. Here's what you felt:USGS​

The Poongaloong Challenge, Mood Food, Super Duper and Pearl's Deluxe Bring More Burgers

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Yesterday Jonathan Kauffman shared Ed Lee's Poongaloong recipe - just as appetizing as it sounds. The Lee-created casserole anchored by hamburger meat, macaroni, and half-bottle of ketchup, didn't entice ... More >>

Where Do You Go on the Wharf? Ask a Concierge

​​devonapple/FlickrScoma's is the concierges' number-one choice for Wharf dining.​SF Weekly aims to be more of an insider's newspaper than a national guide to all things San Francisco, so I don't get to Fisherman's Wharf often. Locals don't dine there as often as they did in the 1960s and 1970 ... More >>

Daniel Patterson Pushes a Food Cart, Ritual Adds Buzz to Proxy

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Tasting Table spots what appears to be the Bay Area's humblest-looking lunch cart, but with the fanciest of pedigrees: Porky's from Daniel Patterson. Decorated with pigs, the Uptown Oakland cart serves o ... More >>

Get Off Your (Bare) Butt

Two Shot to Death at Fisherman's Wharf; Homicides No. 9 and 10

It's been a bloody January​Two people were shot dead Sunday evening in Fisherman's Wharf inside a souvenir store on Jefferson Street.Police say they have detained a man who they believe is connected to the shooting, according to media reports. Authorities identified Qiong Han Chu, 30 and Feng Ping ... More >>

Computerized licensing system could hurt S.F. fishermen

Feds Indict Fisherman's Wharf Merchants For Selling Fake Louis Vuittons

No, you didn't get a real, $5 Louis Vuitton...​In what is being billed as the largest takedown of retailers of designer fakes on the West Coast, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement busted a slew of Fisherman's Wharf merchants for allegedly smuggling and trafficking in fake Oakley, Nike, A ... More >>

San Francisco Ride The Ducks Grounded After Company Boat Sinks

Now that duck...​We've written an entire cover story about the fierce rivalry between the two duck boat tour operators at Fisherman's Wharf -- the corporate-chain Ride the Ducks vs. the only-in-San Francisco Bay Quackers. Well, Bay Quackers has the duck market to themselves today for the most trag ... More >>

Blair Henderson Shot Dead in SOMA; City's 15th Homicide

View Larger MapBlair Henderson, was shot to death and three others were critically wounded in the wee hours of Sunday morning in a parking area near Second and Minna. The San Francisco Medical Examiner told SF Weekly that none of the critically wounded victims have since died. But Henderson, 26, was ... More >>

Pack of 15 Sea Lions Patrols Mission Creek

Joe EskenaziBARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! ​Not so long ago SF Weekly reported on the exploding number of sea lions on Hyde Street Harbor -- a situation deemed an "infestation" by those charged with keeping the city's piers operational and relatively sea lion excrement-free. It seems, however, that the s ... More >>

New Restaurants

Bad Memories in Little Chinatown

Tonight: World's Largest Ice Cream Social

Little GoCars are big polluters

State of the Cart

Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

Nonconformity Still Reigns!

The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

Fish Story

A room with an expensive view, and din with your dinner.

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

Feeling Crabby

If You're Goin' to San Francisco ...

If Haight Street is wall-to-wall people, it must be tourist season. How do you really feel about all those outsiders who swell the city's population?

Best Parade

Best Ways to Kill Yourself in San Francisco

Best Wildlife Spot

Best $1.25 Tour of the City

Best Way to Show Guests Around

Bruin Mob

Bear lovers coalesce in S.F.

Fowl Play

Celebrating cock-a-doodle-doo

Salty Cinema

Film from the watery depths

Best Cocktails

Shops and Gifts

Hey, Sailor!

Salty young dogs party on

Fumbled Catch

A new fish restaurant on Market could try harder

On the Waterfront

Crab House

Balkans by the Bay

Aquatic Park, long mismanaged by a jumble of self-interested entities, needs public-spirited refurbishment

Global Village

Making the rounds of Fisherman's Wharf bars, you'll meet people from the Philippines, Bulgaria, or even Alameda

Best Place to Get Away From It All

Forbes Island

Animal Magnetism

Seal Lion 10th Anniversary

Night+Day

Night+Day