# Crab House at Pier 39, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/crab-house-at-pier-39-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/crab-house-at-pier-39-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Crab House at Pier 39 is a seafood restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 34 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 | 2 Beach St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 11 AM to 9 PM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 10 PM · Sun 11 AM to 9 PM |
| Phone | (415) 651-2574 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 5,095 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| 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 | 2 Beach St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Informal seafood place offering a creative and crab-focused menu, plus views of the Golden Gate Bridge. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM · Fri to Sat 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Crab House at Pier 39 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 651-2574 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Attractions | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Crab soup recipe ideas | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Cucina con testina | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dungeness crab | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dungeness crab season | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Entrees | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Group reservations | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Hiking trails | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menus | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menu spotlight killer crab | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Pasta | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Restaurant week | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Seafood dining | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Sizzling iron skillets | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Soup and salad | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Soup salad | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Starters | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/crabhouseatpier39 | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/crabhouse39 | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://crabhouse39.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb_listing | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 15 services Crab House at Pier 39 offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Soup salad |  |  |  | From their website |
| Attractions |  |  |  | From their website |
| Entrees |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menu spotlight killer crab |  |  |  | From their website |
| Group reservations |  |  |  | From their website |
| Crab soup recipe ideas |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menus |  |  |  | From their website |
| Pasta |  |  |  | From their website |
| Restaurant week |  |  |  | From their website |
| Sizzling iron skillets |  |  |  | From their website |
| Starters |  |  |  | From their website |
| Cucina con testina |  |  |  | From their website |
| Dungeness crab |  |  |  | From their website |
| Dungeness crab season |  |  |  | From their website |
| Hiking trails |  |  |  | From their website |


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## Visiting Crab House at Pier 39

Address: 2 Beach St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA. Phone: (415) 651-2574. Hours: Mon to Thu 11 AM to 9 PM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 10 PM · Sun 11 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Informal seafood place offering a creative and crab-focused menu, plus views of the Golden Gate Bridge."


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Crepe Cafe | Dessert shop | 1 min walk |
| Wine Tasting on the Bay / San Francisco Bay Boat Cruises | Tour agency | 1 min walk |
| Lappert's Ice Cream on PIER 39 | Ice cream shop | 1 min walk |
| Wipeout Bar & Grill | Bar & grill | 1 min walk |
| Nathan’s Hot Dog Cart | Hot dog stand | 1 min walk |
| Musical Stairs | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 5,095 reviews: Google 5,095. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

Crab House at Pier 39 offers a scenic dining experience but struggles with service and food consistency, leading to mixed reviews. (AI guess, from 5,095 reviews.)


### What people like

- Crab cakes
- Clam chowder with crab
- Garlic truffle fries
- Ultimate Combo
- Crab and shrimp fettuccine


### What people do not like

- Inconsistent food quality
- Unwelcoming staff
- Long waits for food
- Rude service
- Overpriced for the quality


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### best seafood restaurant in San Francisco


### Why do people rate Crab House at Pier 39?


### Somewhere to park near Crab House at Pier 39?


### Busiest day here, anyone know?


### where exactly is Crab House at Pier 39?


### Crab House at Pier 39 or Sotto Mare?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### lunch near Beach, what is good


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### do I need to book Crab House at Pier 39 in San Francisco or can I just turn up?


### people keep recommending Crab House at Pier 39, what for?


### what time does this place actually open?


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### cancellation list here, is there one


### rough idea what this place costs?


### first visit at Crab House at Pier 39, what do I need to bring?


### anything new from Crab House at Pier 39 lately?


### cheaper than this place in San Francisco without it being sketchy?


## The AI Score: 34 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. Crab House at Pier 39 scores 34, below the San Francisco average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Crab House at Pier 39 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 50 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 89 | 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 | 60 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | 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 | 80 | 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 Crab House at Pier 39 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crab House at Pier 39 | LocalBusiness | #business | https://crabhouse39.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb_listing | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Crab House at Pier 39 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:ChIJ9T3A5PyAhYARce9_Mje3PoE (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/starters/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/restaurant-week/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/sizzling-iron-skillets/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/soup-salad/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/san-francisco-attractions/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/crab-soup-recipe-ideas/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [8] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/cucina-con-testina/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [9] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/dungeness-crab/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [10] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/dungeness-crab-season-sf/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [11] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/entrees/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [12] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/group-reservations/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [13] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/hiking-trails-san-francisco/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [14] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/menu/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [15] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/news-events/menu-spotlight-killer-crab/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [16] crabhouse39.com, https://crabhouse39.com/pasta/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [17] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)