# Pier 23 Cafe Restaurant & Bar, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/pier-23-cafe-restaurant-and-bar-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/pier-23-cafe-restaurant-and-bar-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Pier 23 Cafe Restaurant & Bar 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 | 23 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA |
| Hours | Mon 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Closed Tue · Wed to Sun 11:30 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (415) 362-5125 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 3,086 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Monday |
| 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 | 23 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Embarcadero restaurant with a focus on seafood & outdoor, waterside seating, plus live music. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Tue Closed · Wed to Sun 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Pier 23 Cafe Restaurant & Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 362-5125 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Brunch | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Brunch menu | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Family | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Flicka mcgurrin bio | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Happy hour | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Live music | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Llms | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Mac leibert | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | New index | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Outdoor seating | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Private parties | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Seafood dining | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | St patricks day celebration | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Uniquely pier 23 cafe | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/pier23 | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/pier_23_cafe | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.pier23cafe.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 10 services Pier 23 offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brunch menu |  |  |  | From their website |
| Family |  |  |  | From their website |
| Happy hour |  |  |  | From their website |
| Llms |  |  |  | From their website |
| Mac leibert |  |  |  | From their website |
| New index |  |  |  | From their website |
| Private parties |  |  |  | From their website |
| St patricks day celebration |  |  |  | From their website |
| Uniquely pier 23 cafe |  |  |  | From their website |
| Flicka mcgurrin bio |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Pier 23

Address: 23 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Phone: (415) 362-5125. Hours: Mon 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Closed Tue · Wed to Sun 11:30 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Embarcadero restaurant with a focus on seafood & outdoor, waterside seating, plus live music."


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Embarcadero & Greenwich St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| The Embarcadero & Greenwich St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| The Embarcadero & Greenwich St | Light rail station | 1 min walk |
| Pier 19.5 Shed Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| Moonchild | Restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Soft Park - Levi's Plaza | Park | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 3,086 reviews: Google 3,086. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

While Pier 23 Cafe boasts a scenic location and some praised dishes, frequent service issues and mixed food quality detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 3,086 reviews.)


### What people like

- Delicious salmon and crab cakes
- Bottomless mimosas at brunch
- Great calamari with light breading


### What people do not like

- Long waits for food and service
- Inconsistent food quality
- Staff unprofessionalism and lack of communication


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### bad experiences here, anyone?


### people keep recommending Pier 23, what for?


### where exactly is this place?


### anything new from Pier 23 lately?


### Pier 23 or Sotto Mare?


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


### first visit at Pier 23, what do I need to bring?


### is there a rewards thing at Pier 23


### when is this place actually dead?


### best seafood restaurant in San Francisco


### Open Tuesdays here?


### does Pier 23 ever have cancellations


### Booking at Pier 23 in San Francisco, how does it work?


### rough idea what Pier 23 costs?


### Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in San Francisco?


### Why do people rate Pier 23?


### anywhere cheaper than this place in San Francisco that is still good?


## 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. Pier 23 scores 26, below the San Francisco average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Pier 23 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 93 | 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 | 61 | 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 | 77 | 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 Pier 23 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pier 23 Cafe Restaurant & Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.pier23cafe.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Pier 23 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:ChIJZX_ij1iAhYARD_4FwphAcN0 (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/uniquely-pier-23-cafe (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/brunch-menu (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/family (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/flicka-mcgurrin-bio (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/happy-hour (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/mac-leibert (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [8] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/new-index (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [9] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/private-parties (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [10] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/st-patricks-day-celebration (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [11] pier23cafe.com, https://www.pier23cafe.com/llms (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [12] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)