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Alioto's Plaza Unveiled at Fisherman's Wharf, With New Seating, Beer Concession

The new waterfront plaza, in the wharf space where Alioto's restaurant once stood, had its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, with Mayor Daniel Lurie calling it "a new reason to return" to Fisherman's Wharf.

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Grocery Outlet Opens In North Beach at Former Safeway Site as Chain Celebrates 80 Years

Grocery Outlet opened its newest San Francisco location Thursday on the edge of North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, ahead of the company’s 80th anniversary this weekend.

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Driver Crashes Into Boudin Bakery at SF’s Fisherman’s Wharf, Injuring Two

Two people were hospitalized with injuries that weren’t life-threatening after a driver crashed into the back of Boudin Bakery at Fisherman’s Wharf Thursday.

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Former SF Resident Visiting From LA Found Dead After Leaving Martuni’s

Sharbel Saker, a former SF resident who had worked at Fisherman’s Wharf prior to moving to LA last year, was found dead early Friday near Market and Page streets after reportedly leaving Martuni’s piano bar on mid-Market.

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Wildly Popular Chicken Finger Chain Raising Cane's Is Coming to Fisherman's Wharf

Raising Cane's, the fast-food outfit that specializes in fried chicken of the boneless variety, is planning to open a new location in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, a stone's throw from In-N-Out.

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Ghirardelli Workers Hold One-Day Strike on Valentine’s Day at SF’s Fisherman’s Wharf

Ghirardelli workers took part in a one-day strike at the company’s flagship location at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf Saturday demanding a new contract that includes wage increases and preserving their union-run health plan, for which they’ve been bargaining for months.

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The Pro-ICE Billboard at Fisherman’s Wharf Has Been Removed, Supervisor Sauter Says

The ICE fanboy billboard in Fisherman's Wharf had a pretty short run, because the district’s Supervisor Danny Sauter said on social media Wednesday that the Super Bowl-themed billboard near Per 39 has been removed.

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Offensive Billboards Appear In SF Promoting ICE as 'Defensive Player of the Year'

Some hastily put together, pro-ICE electronic billboard ads, paid for by a shady outfit with no known donors, have appeared in San Francisco ahead of the Super Bowl, and maybe in other cities as well.

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Field Notes: Free Trinkets, Wild Garlic Season, Oscar Grant, and ‘Taking a Knee’ During the Anthem

This week: a trinket box in the Sunset, a coyote in Japantown, a denim design legend, a local inventor, and a one-day artist talk on “taking a knee” activism. Plus, remembering Oscar Grant on his 40th birthday, catching crab right off the boat, foraging wild garlic, and protecting the snowy plover.

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Extension of Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf Gets Its First City Hall Hearing

Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to resurrect the old idea of extending the Central Subway out to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, but officials realize there’s no way this gets funded while Trump is still president.

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There’s Suddenly Talk of Extending the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf, Despite Muni’s Gigantic Deficit

Who’s got the appetite for another billion-dollar transit overhaul that would tear up North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf with construction for years on end? Because the push to add more stops to the Central Subway begins today.

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Gang of Deplorable Teens Beats and Robs Man at Fisherman’s Wharf

Teen trouble down by the SF Maritime Museum on Saturday, as a group of teens ganged up on and walloped a man who admonished them to slow down on their bicycles, and then they tried to rob him, but bystanders shooed the teens away.

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That Taco Bell Cantina at the Wharf Had a Grand Opening Party and It Was Lit

Hundreds of people showed up Thursday for the official grand opening of the new Taco Bell Cantina at Fisherman's Wharf, even though it's been open for two weeks.

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Dungeness Crab Time! Fresh Off-the-Boat Dungeness Crab Sales Start on Sunday at Fisherman's Wharf

SF’s Dungeness crab season is finally underway, and the freshest crab you can possibly buy will be on sale starting this Sunday morning, bright and early, down at Fisherman’s Wharf’s Pier 47 where you can buy crab fresh off the boat.

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Taco Bell Cantina, With Booze, Opens at Fisherman's Wharf

Just in time for New Year's Eve, in case you were planning on spending your New Year's Eve near Fisherman's Wharf, SF's newest Taco Bell Cantina has opened its doors.

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Three Young Men Arrested In Connection With July Homicide Near Fisherman's Wharf

Three men, ranging in age from 19 to 22, have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man in early July near SF's Fisherman's Wharf.

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Fisherman’s Wharf’s Oldest Restaurant Castagnola’s Will Reopen, After Settling Messy Lawsuit With the City

The crab cocktail will flow again at Fisherman’s Wharf steak-and-seafood spot Castagnola’s, which has been closed since the pandemic and embroiled in a $1.1 million lawsuit over unpaid rent, but they’ve just settled that lawsuit.

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Yet Another Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Party Happening Saturday at Pier 39

If you still have the appetite and remaining stash left for one more Grateful Dead 60th anniversary party in San Francisco, Pier 39 is throwing one all day Saturday, with some Dead cover bands, drink specials, and a “tie-dye making station.”

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Port of SF Releases Plans for Sleek New Fisherman’s Wharf Plaza Where Alioto’s Used to Be

We learned in June that the Port of SF would be demolishing the shuttered Alioto’s restaurant and putting a new plaza in its place, and today they released a few renderings of the forthcoming plaza's design.

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Fisherman’s Wharf Is Getting One of Those Boozy Taco Bell Cantina Locations

Great news for fans of Taco Bell and/or alcohol, as a booze-serving Taco Bell Cantina is coming to Fisherman’s Wharf, in the former Chipotle space in the Anchorage Square shopping center.

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Port of SF Unveils Plan to Revamp Fisherman's Wharf, Demolish Historic Alioto's Restaurant

The days are numbered for Alioto's and its giant number 8 sign at Fisherman's Wharf, after the Port of San Francisco announced plans Friday to demolish the historic restaurant.

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Oakland’s Famed Everett & Jones BBQ Taking Over Vacant Lou’s Fish Shack Space in Fisherman’s Wharf

Nearly five years since the closure of Fisherman’s Wharf seafood spot Lou’s Fish Shack, the space is finally getting new life, with a lease just awarded to 51-year-old Oakland barbecue institution Everett & Jones BBQ.

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Fresh-From-the-Boat Crab Sales Begin With Long Lines at Pier 47

The commercial Dungeness crab season finally kicked off this past weekend, after a now familiar two-month delay, and San Franciscans turned out in force on Sunday to buy some of the first catch from the boats.

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The Vacant Fisherman’s Wharf Madame Tussauds Is Getting a New Tenant — 'Smurfs: The Adventure'

The vacancy blues are ending for the Fisherman’s Wharf building that had housed the now-shuttered Madame Tussauds, as a Smurfalicious new pop-up called Smurfs: The Adventure will bring a permanent new tenant to that Jefferson Street property in May 2025.

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Aquarium of the Bay’s Ex-CEO Goes Nuclear With Lawsuit Full of Wild Allegations Over His Ouster

The former CEO of Bay.org George Jacob resigned in May amidst reports of lavish spending, but he’s hitting back with a ferocious new lawsuit claiming staff tried to secretly sell shark blood to Disney, and wanted to release all the animals back into the ocean.