🦞 Best Seafood in San Francisco
9 seafood spots in San Francisco, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 9 Seafood Spots
1
Angler
Joshua Skenes' Embarcadero seafood shrine -- an open hearth, a wall of taxidermy, and a view of the Bay Bridge. Wood-fired everything: radicchio in beef fat, clams in butter, whole fish with bones tha...
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2
Swan Oyster Depot
An 18-seat counter on Polk Street since 1912 — James Beard America's Classics Award winner that hasn't changed its formula in over a century. No website, no reservations, cash only, line forms at 7:45...
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3
Tadich Grill
California's oldest continuously operating restaurant — opened 1849 as the Cold Day Restaurant during the Gold Rush, now in its third Financial District location. White-jacketed waiters, dark wood, pr...
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4
Sotto Mare
North Beach seafood hideaway with the self-anointed 'Best Damn Crab Cioppino in the World' as its menu thesis. Tiny tin-ceiling room, no reservations, hour-long waits in season for the cioppino, fritt...
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5
Waterbar
A glass-walled pavilion on the Embarcadero with a Bay Bridge view that rivals any in the city. Raw bar, dry-aged fish, and a happy hour that draws the after-work FiDi crowd for dollar oysters. Sister ...
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6
Hog Island Oyster Co.
The Tomales Bay oyster farm's San Francisco home in the historic Ferry Building, with floor-to-ceiling windows over the bay and Bay Bridge. A raw bar of impeccably fresh Sweetwater, Peale Passage, and...
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7
Thanh Long
SF's first Vietnamese restaurant — open since 1971 and still family-run in the Outer Sunset more than fifty years later. This is where AN's Famous Garlic Noodles and the Garlic Roasted Dungeness Crab ...
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8
Anchor Oyster Bar
A Castro institution since 1977, operated by Roseann Grimm for its entire lifespan. Fresh raw oysters, Dungeness crab, and housemade cioppino at a simple counter — no website, no reservations, no pret...
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9
PPQ Dungeness Island
An Outer Richmond Vietnamese seafood destination built around one trick: whole Dungeness crab, cooked eight different ways. Maine lobster gets the same treatment, and every order arrives with — or alo...
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