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Fishermen's Grotto – Celebrating 78 Years

Three-Course Crab Meal with Choice of Entrees for Two or Four with Wine (Up to 56% Off)

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No Longer Available
Tue Jan 08 07:59:59 UTC 2013
Value
$106
Discount
54%
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$57
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In a Nutshell

Celebrating 78 years in business, restaurant serves Italian-style crab stews, pastas, and salads at a Fisherman's Wharf landmark

The Fine Print

  • Expires Apr 3, 2013
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 9 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table. Valid only for option purchased. Reservation recommended. Dine-in only. Must purchase 1 food item.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

It's fun to see where your food comes from, which is why people enjoy dining on fresh seafood beside the ocean and eating fresh vegetables in the alley behind the farmer's market. This Groupon is a feast for the senses.

Choose Between Two Options

  • $49 for a crab meal for two (up to a $106.90 total value)
  • $95 for a crab meal for four (up to a $213.80 total value)

For each pair, the meal includes:

  • Two mixed green Grotto dinner salads or two cups of clam chowder (a $7.50 value each)
  • Any two crab entrees from the menu (up to a $34.95 value each)
  • Two glasses of house wine (up to a $7 value each)
  • One dessert

Crab entrees include a crab sandwich with Louis dressing ($18.95), Dungeness crab (market price), crab cioppino in a rich tomato stew ($29.95), and spaghetti with crab meat ($26.95). See all dishes here.

Fishermen's Grotto

As a young Sicilian immigrant working the docks in 1930s San Francisco, Mike Geraldi asked to be paid in fish. After he'd helped fishermen unload their catches on the wharf, he'd traverse the city selling what they gave him by the basket. Slowly, he became familiar with the workings of the harbor and his clientele's tastes. He'd log potential recipes in his mind, pairing the flavors of his Italian homeland with the fresh flavors of the sea, and he kept saving up toward a kitchen in which to perfect them. He soon bought a boat, then a corner stand, and finally, the first sit-down restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf.

Fishermen's Grotto has stood as a seaside beacon managed by the Geraldi family ever since. Its chefs schedule hand-offs with the local fishing fleet to buy fish and crustaceans that have been netted that very day, crafting specialties such as broiled halibut and whole dungeness crabs served with housemade mayonnaise. Many dishes come with fresh sourdough bread, or in the case of the crab cioppino tomato stew, a bib so that customers can leave their dining slickers at home. Though chowders, fish fillets, and seafood combinations remain the Grotto's mainstays, the menu also includes Italian pastas and other staples, such as chicken marsala and veal scaloppine.

Styled like a Venetian villa and crowned by an enormous neon sign, Fishermen's Grotto retains much of its original 1930s charm. Low wooden beams and red lanterns hang above white tablecloths and a carpet of ocean waves traversed by cartoon fishermen in yellow. Indoor and outdoor tables afford views of the Golden Gate Bridge and, closer at hand, the bobbing vessels that ferry food from the sea to the stove.

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Fishermen's Grotto

3.5 out of 5
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    Celebrating 78 Years

    2847 Taylor St.
    San Francisco, California 94133
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