SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
Arts & Entertainment 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.”
SF News 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.
SF News One Man Shot, Gravely Injured Near Fisherman's Wharf A male victim was found suffering from a gunshot wound early Thursday near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, and details of the case are so far very slim.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Victim In Fisherman's Wharf Shooting ID'd The victim in last week's shooting near Fisherman's Wharf has been identified; a fire at a downtown SF highrise was apparently caused by a tossed cigarette; and former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grocery Outlet Bargain Market On Verge of Coming to Fisherman’s Wharf There’s double the Downtown First Thursdays tonight; PG&E is looking to hike your rates again; and the Fisherman’s Wharf Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is on the verge of becoming official.
Arts & Entertainment That Record Number of Sea Lions at Pier 39? They’re All Gone Now Those 2,000 sea lions who’d crammed the docks of Pier 39 are now basically zero sea lions at Pier 39. But don't worry for them, they’re just off getting laid.
SF News More Details Emerge on CEO’s Lavish Spending That’s Imperiled Aquarium by the Bay, Feds Now Investigating Former employees are spilling the beans on the extravagant spending and head-scratching decision-making by now-fired Bay.org CEO George Jacob. He’s hired former SF supervisor Angela Alioto as his attorney, but that may be little help as the feds are reportedly sniffing around.
SF News Record Pier 39 Sea Lion Population Explodes Even Further, Now There’s More Than 2,000 of Them A sea of sea lions at San Francisco's Pier 39 has gotten even larger, and there is now an all-time record of more than 2,000 sea lions at the pier, smashing a 30-year-old record.
SF News Yet More Turmoil at SF’s Aquarium of the Bay, Which Just Lost Its Accreditation A terrible week gets even worse for SF’s Aquarium of the Bay and its parent nonprofit Bay.org, as the aquarium just lost its accreditation with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, amidst an almost-daily array of other scandals for the nonprofit.
SF News Bay Institute and Aquarium of the Bay Scandal Explodes, CEO Resigns Amidst Reports of Extravagant Spending What started as a bookish academic kerfuffle has blown up into a larger scandal of financial mismanagement, and the CEO of the SF Aquarium by the Bay and Bay Institute has stepped down as reports surface that he blew huge money on lavish travel and concerts in Dubai.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Breed Wants To Keep That Giant Ferris Wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf Another Year and a Half The 150-foot Ferris wheel that’s technically known as the SkyStar Observation Wheel is scheduled to shut down April 30, but could stay at Fisherman’s Wharf through October 2025 if Mayor Breed gets her way.
SF News Dungeness Crab Season Finally Starts Today, Fishermen Selling Crab Right Off the Boat The many-times-delayed local Dungeness crab season is finally here, and fishermen are selling the crab straight off the boat down at Fisherman’s Wharf Piers 45 and 47.
SF News Bribery Scandal In Fisherman’s Wharf: Nick's Lighthouse Owners Charged by FBI With Trying to Bribe Port Officials The good news is that established restaurateurs hope to take over the vacant Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack. The bad news is they allegedly tried to bribe port officials with $19,000 to do so, and one of the port officials was actually an undercover FBI agent.
SF News SF City Hall Vows Crackdown on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Vendors for APEC “I would like to seize as many hot dog carts as possible,” vows one city official in emails obtained by Bloomberg, as a crackdown on hot dog vendors is curiously one of the items on SF’s APEC preparations to-do list.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Fishermen’s Grotto and Tarantino’s Both Face Eviction Over Unpaid Rent Two more historic Fisherman's Wharf seafood restaurants may be biting the dust, as the 88-year-old Fishermen’s Grotto No. 9 and the 77-year-old Tarantino’s have both received eviction notices for unpaid back rent.
SF Politics Supervisor Peskin Proposes Moving the Golden Gate Ferris Wheel to His District, at Fisherman’s Wharf Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was not a fan of putting the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park, is now a fan of putting it in his own district in time for November’s APEC Summit.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack Both Close Permanently Both Lou’s Fish Shack and Pompei’s Grotto have been closed the whole the pandemic, and they won’t reopen, as they’re both taking exit deals to relinquish their properties to the Port of San Francisco.
SF News Goats Gone Wild Again, Dozens Escape to Rampage Near Fisherman’s Wharf Another goat mob escaped their confines and ran wild through the streets near Francisco Park Tuesday afternoon, though they were eventually corralled using SFPD and a tasty bale of hay.
SF News Missing Woman Who Didn't Board SF Cruise Ship Found Safe, Appears To Be ‘In Good Health’ SFPD issued a missing person alert for 33-year-old Alaina Marie Adams Tuesday when she didn’t show up for a scheduled cruise ship boarding, but just issued an alert that she was found near Fisherman's Wharf and “appeared to be in good health.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurants, Alioto's, Is Closing After a Century at Fisherman's Wharf Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
SF News Pier 39 Sports Bar a Textbook Example of How Government Screwed Up COVID Relief for Restaurants The feds offered $28.6 billion in grants to struggling restaurants this summer. Then they yanked the carpet out from restaurants that had already been awarded the money, and gave it to chains like Panera instead.
SF News Update: SFFD Crews Will Continue Monitoring Pier 45 Through Memorial Day, Fishing Companies Devastated Saturday’s four-alarm fire at Pier 45 damaged a quarter of the dock's structures, filling the clouds with smoke and blanketing nearby cars in ash. SF firefighters will continue monitoring the area for hot spots today and tomorrow, and fishing businesses are now reporting catastrophic losses.
