# Betty Lou's Seafood & Grill, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/betty-lou-s-seafood-and-grill-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/betty-lou-s-seafood-and-grill-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Betty Lou's Seafood & Grill is a seafood restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Seafood restaurant |
| Address | 318 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM |
| Rating | 4.6 across 1,277 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 318 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Bright, spacious bistro for oysters, chowder, pasta & seafood mains in old-world environs. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Betty Lou's Seafood & Grill | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Chowder | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Drinks | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Oysters | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Pasta | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Seafood mains | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://bettylousseafoodandgrill.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 1 service Betty Lou's offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drinks |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Betty Lou's

Address: 318 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA. Hours: Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Bright, spacious bistro for oysters, chowder, pasta & seafood mains in old-world environs."


### When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pizzelle di North Beach | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| georgian cheese boat | Eastern european restaurant | 1 min walk |
| El Farolito | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| The Baked Bear | Dessert restaurant | 1 min walk |
| 606 | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Language of the Birds | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 1,277 reviews: Google 1,277. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

Betty Lou's is known for its fresh seafood dishes like cioppino, but suffers from inconsistent service and an uninviting atmosphere. (AI guess, from 1,277 reviews.)


### What people like

- Seafood linguine with two sauces
- Classic cioppino with complex tomato-based sauce
- Fresh crab cocktail
- Delicious tiramisu


### What people do not like

- Gloomy and dark atmosphere
- Service felt neglectful or unresponsive
- High prices for the quality
- Food occasionally bland or overcooked


### Press

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### Directories

Listed on 3 of the 19 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| OpenTable | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


### where does this place post updates


### Why do people rate Betty Lou's?


### walk in at Betty Lou's in San Francisco, or is it appointment only?


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### anyone been to both here and Sotto Mare?


### are prices in San Francisco higher than everywhere else


### do regulars get anything here


### people keep recommending Betty Lou's, what for?


### address for this place, anyone have it?


### opening hours here, what are they these days?


### is there a day here that is not slammed


### anything people actually moan about here?


### any last minute tables at Betty Lou's?


### Coffee near this place on Columbus?


### best seafood restaurant in San Francisco


### somewhere cheaper in San Francisco that is not a risk?


### What sort of money are we talking at Betty Lou's?


## The AI Score: 26 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco seafood restaurants run 23 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Betty Lou's scores 26, below the San Francisco average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Betty Lou's |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 13 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 82 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 47 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 |  | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 74 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a seafood restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Betty Lou's |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Betty Lou's Seafood & Grill | LocalBusiness | #business | https://bettylousseafoodandgrill.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Betty Lou's is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the seafood restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best seafood restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/seafood-restaurant
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ7XPEdfSAhYARpkyL6DlQthc (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] bettylousseafoodandgrill.com, https://bettylousseafoodandgrill.com/drink-menu (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 20, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)