The 21 Best Seafood Restaurants In San Francisco - San Francisco - The Infatuation

"When you want a classic San Francisco seafood experience, head to Sotto Mare. The walls of this North Beach spot are covered in toy boats, wooden steering wheels, and nautical memorabilia, and the bar is always full of people eating huge portions of Italian-American seafood dishes. Their cioppino is solid, but our favorite thing is the linguine (get it with the cream sauce) that has shrimp, clams, squid, diver scallops, and mussels. It's big enough to feed the entire 49ers defensive line. And if they have branzino as a special, order it—their pan-fried version with butter and capers is as old-school as it gets." - lani conway, julia chen 1, ricky rodriguez, patrick wong