# Frankie's Crab Stand, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/frankie-s-crab-stand-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/frankie-s-crab-stand-san-francisco-ca

## Photos

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## In short

Frankie's Crab Stand is a seafood restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 23 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 | Pier, 43 1/2 The Embarcadero First Floor, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 3 PM |
| Phone | (415) 322-1778 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 822 reviews |
| 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 | Pier, 43 1/2 The Embarcadero First Floor, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Old-fashioned waterfront counter-serve offering fish 'n' chips & chowder, plus outdoor seating. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Frankie's Crab Stand | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 322-1778 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Chowder | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Fish and chips | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Other restaurants | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Outdoor seating | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Photos | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Pizza | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Seafood dishes | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/frankiescrab | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/frankiescrab | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://frankiespier43.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 3 services Frankie's Crab Stand offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Other restaurants |  |  |  | From their website |
| Photos |  |  |  | From their website |
| Pizza |  |  |  | From their website |


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## Visiting Frankie's Crab Stand

Address: Pier, 43 1/2 The Embarcadero First Floor, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA. Phone: (415) 322-1778. Hours: Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 3 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Old-fashioned waterfront counter-serve offering fish 'n' chips & chowder, plus outdoor seating."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peet's Coffee | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Desert Shark | Tourist attraction | 2 min walk |
| Pier 39 Seagull and Crab Mural | Tourist attraction | 2 min walk |
| Jefferson St and Taylor St | Transit stop | 2 min walk |
| Great Big Game Show Fisherman's Wharf | Amusement center | 2 min walk |
| Nation's Giant Hamburgers & Great Pies | American restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 822 reviews.


### Press

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## Questions people ask


### any last minute tables here?


### rough idea what this place costs?


### going rate for restaurants locally, any idea


### is San Francisco expensive for this, or is it just here


### where exactly is Frankie's Crab Stand?


### what else is on Pier around Frankie's Crab Stand?


### Frankie's Crab Stand or Sotto Mare?


### Do they post anywhere?


### Are the hours on Google right for Frankie's Crab Stand in San Francisco?


### best seafood restaurant in San Francisco


### points or member pricing here, worth signing up?


### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Frankie's Crab Stand?


## The AI Score: 23 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. Frankie's Crab Stand scores 23, below the San Francisco average of 39. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Frankie's Crab Stand |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 40 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 51 | 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. | Fair |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | 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 | 42 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 31 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

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 Frankie's Crab Stand |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frankie's Crab Stand | LocalBusiness | #business | https://frankiespier43.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Frankie's Crab Stand 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:ChIJQ18AHOOAhYAR-PS1XEfjT_s (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] frankiespier43.com, https://frankiespier43.com/photos.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] frankiespier43.com, https://frankiespier43.com/menu2.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] frankiespier43.com, https://frankiespier43.com/restaurants.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)