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San Francisco's Dungeness crab industry is an indelible symbol of the city, as historic and renowned as San Francisco's famed cable cars. Along with the pioneers that came to San Francisco in the 1840s searching for gold, other entrepreneurs from the Mediterranean fishing villages of Italy sought their fortunes in crab fishing in the San Francisco Bay and along the coastline beyond the Golden Gate.
The Fisherman's Wharf Crab Season is a celebration of the City's culinary obsession and its love affair with Dungeness crab. Here are some mouth-watering recipes from some of the famous Fisherman's Wharf restaurants.
Come back and visit us soon for special restaurant offers and more during February, 2011!
RESTAURANT SPECIALS
 CASTAGNOLA'S SEAFOOD & CHOPHOUSE
Phone: 415-776-5105
Website: www.castagnolas.com
Winter Surf n' Turf Special
• Petit Filet Mignon
• Half Roasted Dungeness Crab
• Herbed Wild Rice
• Grilled Winter Asparagus
• $49.95
 FISHERMAN'S GROTTO #9
Phone: 415-673-7025
Website: www.fishermansgrotto.com
Comlimentary Cup of Clam Chowder and choice of Dessert with order of a Whole Crab when you mention "crab festival".
 FOG HARBOR FISH HOUSE
Phone: 415-421-2442
Website: www.fogharborfishouse.com
Fog Harbor Fish House is offering a special Dungeness Crab Menu with more than twenty delicious fresh crab dishes including Garlic Roasted Crab, Asian Roasted Crab, Dungeness Crab Ravioli, Crab Ceviche, and more.
Enjoy the seasonal specials while you take in San Francisco's Best Scenic View as voted by OpenTable diners. Visit here to view the Seasonal Crab Menu.
 SCOMA'S RESTAURANT
Phone: 415-771-4383
Website: www.scomas.com
Come to Scoma's on Pier 47 for a complimentary mini crab cake appetizer with the purchase of an entrée. Enjoy stunning bay views and complimentary parking. Offer is valid Monday through Friday; holidays and Valentine's Day are excluded; good for groups up to 10 only; no substitutions please. Print this page and bring to Scoma's for redemption.
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CRAB SEASON EVENTS
 AQUARIUM OF THE BAY HOSTS FREE DAYS FOR SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS
Dates: 2/7/2011 - 2/10/2011
Times: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Aquarium of the Bay, The Embarcadero at Beach Street
Price: FREE
Additional Information: www.aquariumofthebay.org
Celebrating its recent transition to a nonprofit nature center, Aquarium of the Bay, now part of The Bay Institute, is hosting four free admission days for San Francisco residents to explore the west coast's largest estuary. As the only nonprofit nature center dedicated to inspiring conservation of San Francisco Bay and its watershed, residents are encouraged to come meet their underwater neighbors.
To gain free admission, San Franciscans must present proof of residency:
• Valid driver's license or ID card with San Francisco address
-OR –
• Utility bill or bank statement that includes your name and San Francisco home address (not a P.O. Box), along with identification card.
Aquarium of the Bay offers daily and special activities, ranging from shark feedings to discussions on sustainable seafood, interactive science experiments and more, geared towards visitors of all ages. Coupled with opportunities to see mighty Sevengill sharks, brightly colored Garibaldi, swirling schools of anchovies, gracefully gliding jellies and thousands of other animals, there is always something new to explore and discover.
 TULIPMANIA AT PIER 39
Dates: Saturday, February 19 through Sunday, February 27, 2011
Times: Guides tours at 10:00 a.m. daily
Location: PIER 39 Entrance Plaza
Additional Information: Call 415-705-5500, info@pier39.com, or www.pier39.com
Tulipmania comes in full bloom to PIER 39 with free guided tours beginning from the Entrance Plaza. More than 39,000 tulips are planted throughout PIER 39, and come in every color and variety combination conceivable, including Apricot Beauties, Texas Flames, Purple Princes, Flaming Parrots, Swan Wings, Burgundy Lace and more. The tulips are topped with winter vegetables, including lettuce, parsley, celery and red chard. The tulip plantings can be spotted throughout PIER 39 and its waterfront parks.
 WALK LIKE A SEA LION WITH AQUARIUM OF THE BAY AND THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ON PIER 39
Dates: 1/21/2011 - 2/23/2011
Times: Top of the hour from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: PIER 39 and Aquarium of the Bay
Price: FREE
Additional Information: www.aquariumofthebay.org
In honor of PIER 39's Sea Lion 21st Anniversary, Aquarium of the Bay, The Marine Mammal Center and PIER 39 will be offering free naturalist-led walking tours to enlighten guests on the behaviors and habits of California sea lions, January 21-23. The tours begin each day at the top of the hour from 11am to 4pm. The Aquarium's naturalists will begin the sea lion walking tours at the Sea Lion statue, near the Blue and Gold Fleet kiosk. The Marine Mammal Center and Aquarium of the Bay will also have special displays onsite throughout the 3-day event to further enhance the educational experience.
Tour-goers will learn about marine life in San Francisco Bay, visit the famous Sea Lions and end the tour with complimentary milk and cookies at Sea Lion Cafe with PIER 39's mascot "Salty the Sea lion". In addition, all tour participants will be given 50% off admission to Aquarium of the Bay, 50% off a Blue and Gold Fleet Cruise and 10% off in The Marine Mammal Center store, Jan 21-23.
Once inside the Aquarium, guests will continue their exploration of San Francisco Bay's animals and ecosystems, and test their knowledge with a scavenger hunt. Guests who complete their scavenger hunt will be eligible to win prizes including: a family membership to the Aquarium, a $100 gift certificate to Neptune's Palace Seafood Restaurant, four-pack of Blue & Gold Fleet Bay Cruise tickets and more.
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Here is a compilation of favorite crab
recipes from restaurants at Fisherman's Wharf.
For more information on dining and restaurant hours
click on the restaurant's name.
Alioto's
Ingredients
2 Fresh live crabs (1 1/2 to 2 lbs. each)
1/8 C. Olive oil, 2 Cloves fresh garlic, chopped
Crab butter
1 C Dry white wine
1/4 C onions, chopped fine
8 Prawns
16 Manila clams, well scrubbed
16 Mussels, well scrubbed
1 clam juice or fresh broth
2 cups crushed tomatoes, peeled and seeded
1 1/2 cups Tomato sauce
As need chopped parsley
To taste Salt and Pepper
To taste Red pepper Flakes
Method
Prepare tomato sauce ( recipe follows)
Proceed with Cioppino recipe
Tomato Sauce
1/2 cup Olive oil
1 onion chopped
6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
40-ounces canned, chopped tomatoes & pureed
18 Basil leaves, julienned
Salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
In an 8 quart kettle or Pot, heat the olive oil and sauté the onions until transparent. Add the garlic and sauté until it begins to brown. Stir in crab butter and let cook slowly for 2 minutes (crab butter is saffron yellow in color and adds a distinctive rich flavor). Next, add the wine, and reduce. Add tomatoes and tomato sauce, broth and .live crab. Cook mixture at a simmer for about 5 minutes. Cover and continue to simmer at low heat for about 5 minutes. Add prawns, clams, mussels, and cook for 2 more minutes. Serve in a bowl and sprinkle with fresh parsley. Add salt, pepper to taste. If your crab is cooked ahead of time, add it to the recipe at the same time you add the clams, prawns and mussels.
Bistro Boudin
Ingredients
Flaky Pastry:
2 1/4 cups Flour
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 cup Cold unsalted butter --cut into bits
1/2 cup Cold vegetable shortening --cut into bits
1/4 cup Ice water
1 Egg --lightly beaten with
1 tablespoon Water --for egg wash
Filling:
9 tablespoons Unsalted butter
1 cup Finely-chopped onions
1/2 cup sliced celery
1/3 cup minced carrots
1/4 pound mushrooms --sliced
1 1/2 cups fish stock
1/2 cup dry white wine or white vermouth
Bouquet garnish consisting of
12 Parsley sprigs --tied together with
1 Teaspoon dried thyme --plus
6 Peppercorns --and also
1 Bay leaf --in a cheesecloth bag
1 pound large shrimp --peeled divined
and halved lengthwise
1/2 pound Sea scallops --halved if large
1/2 pound Dungeness crab meat --picked over
1 1/2 cups Milk - --about
6 tablespoon Flour
1/4 cup Heavy cream
1/4 cup Freshly-grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup Minced fresh parsley
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Freshly-grated nutmeg
Lemon juice
Salt --to taste
Freshly-ground black pepper --to taste
Instructions
Make flaky pastry: Into a mixing bowl sift flour and salt. Add
butter and shortening and blend with a pastry blender or fingertips
until it resembles coarse meal. Add water, stirring with a fork until
dough comes together. If too dry, add a little more water. Gather
dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and flatten into a disk. Chill
at least 30 minutes, or may be prepared a day ahead.
Make filling:
Melt 3 tablespoons of butter over medium-low heat, add onions, celery,
carrots and mushrooms, cover and cook 8 to 10 minutes, or until onion is
soft. Uncover, fish stock, wine and bouquet garnish, bring to a
simmer and stir in shrimp and scallops. Return to simmering, stirring,
then remove pan from heat. Drain shellfish mixture, reserving liquid
and bouquet garnish separately. Measure poaching liquid and add enough
milk to measure 3 1/2 cups. In a saucepan melt remaining butter, add
flour and cook over medium-low heat, stirring, for 3 minutes. Add
reserved poaching liquid and bouquet garnish and heat to simmering. Cook,
stirring occasionally, for 20 minutes. Discard bouquet garnish. Stir in
cream, cheese, parsley, mustard, nutmeg and lemon juice; season to taste
with salt and pepper. Stir in shellfish mixture and crab meat and
transfer to a large buttered baking or gratin dish. Preheat oven to
400 degrees. Roll out chilled dough on a lightly-floured work surface
to 2 inches larger on all sides than baking dish. Drape crust loosely
over filling, tuck edges into dish and crimp decoratively. Brush dough
with egg wash. Cut several slits in top of pie. If you have extra
dough, cut them into decorative fish shapes, arrange on top of pie and
brush again with egg wash. Bake pie until top is dark golden brown and
filling bubbles around edges, 35 to 40 minutes. If filling begins to
bubble out of pan, place a baking sheet on oven rack below pie. Serve
whole pie at table. This recipe yields 6 to 8 servings.
Blue Mermaid
Award Winning Dungeness
Crab and Corn Chowder
Ingredients
2.5 quarts apple-wood smoked bacon
5 diced onions
5 diced celery
2 oz chipotle powder
4 quarts pasilla chili diced
2 jalapeno peppers sliced in half with no seeds
5 diced Yukon gold potatoes
Crab base to taste.
2 gallons heavy cream
6 oz of cream cheese
1 sheet pan roasted corn
1/2 cup chipotle powder
1/2 cup Old Bay Seasoning
Instructions
STEP 1: Add 2.5 quarts diced apple-wood smoked bacon, render the bacon then add 5 diced onions, and 5 diced celery. Saute for 5 minutes.
Add 2oz chipotle powder. Add 4 quarts pasilla chili diced, and 2 jalapeno peppers sliced in half with.no seeds.
STEP 2: Add 5 diced Yukon gold potatoes. Add enough water to cover potatoes. Add crab base to taste.
Bring to a boil until potatoes are aldiente. DO NOT OVERCOOK.
STEP 3: Add 2 gallons heavy cream. Puree 6 oz of cream cheese with some of the chowder. Add to chowder.
Add roux until right consistency which is velvety and not too thick.
Finish with 1 sheet pan roasted corn,1/2 cup chipotle powder, and 1/2 cup Old Bay Seasoning. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Yields 12 gallons.
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Garlic Roasted Dungeness
"Killer" Crab |
Crab House
Ingredients
3 to 4 Dungeness crabs(2+lbs each)
cooked and cleaned(boil)reserve the head butter
1 cup dry white wine
3 tables olive oil(+ more for brushing)
2 tables minced shallots
1 rosemary sprig (minced leaves)
1 tspn. minced fresh thyme
2 tblsp. pink peppercorn(or Szechwan)
2 tblsp. canola oil
8 to 10 garlic cloves smashed
minced parsley(for garnish)
garlic salt for sprinkling
Instructions
1. Place the crabs claws down in baking dish.
2. In a blender process the reserved crab butter with 1/2 cup of the wine(till smooth and creamy)
set aside.
3. Preheat oven(350)
4. In a large sauce pan heat the olive oil(medium flame), add the rest of the ingredients(minus the garlic) sauté (3 minutes)(shallots must be translucent).
5. Add the butter mixture and the rest of the white wine cook (low flame)10 min.
(stirring occasionally) remove from heat (skim any clumps from the top)
let cool(3-4 min.)
6. Pass through a meshed sieve into the sauce pan
add the mushed garlic whisk until blended.
7. Ladle all but 1/4 cup of the butter sauce over the crabs roast
for 20-25 minutes (till crab meat at the joint ends looks crisp)
8. Arrange crab on serving platter, sprinkle with salt and parsley (brush shells with olive oil (for beautiful shine)
serve immediately with rest of sauce for dipping.
Fisherman's Grotto #9
Chef's Special Salad Dressing
Ingredients
Fishermen's Grotto Chef's Special Salad Dressing
1 1/2 cups chili sauce
1/4 cup celery (ground fine)
1/4 cup sour pickles (ground fine)
2 cups mayonnaise
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon horseradish
Instructions
Put all ingredients into bowl. Mix together; until well blended.
This dressing can be used on any seafood salad.
Makes one quart.
Fog Harbor Fish House
Dungeness Crab Melt Sandwich
Ingredients
1 1/2 Cup — Sweet Onions, small diced and sautéed
2.5 lbs. — Dungeness Crab Meat
1 1/2 Cups — Mayonnaise
1 Cup — Shaved Asiago Parmesan Cheese
3/4 oz. — Fresh Parsley chopped
1/2 Cup — Green Onions small chopped
3/4 oz. — Yellow Mustard
12 shakes — Tabasco sauce
1/2 tsp. — Black Pepper
3/4 oz. — Old Bay seasoning
Sliced sourdough bread or any sliced bread
Butter
Olive oil
Sliced tomatoes
Asiago Parmesan
Instructions
Small dice the onions. Heat up a sauté pan with olive oil. Add the onions and sauté till translucent about 3-5 minutes. Cool the onions. In a bowl combine the remaining ingredients and fold in together until all product is mixed in being careful not to break up the crab meat. When onions have cooled fold into the crab mix and cool.
To order butter the slices of bread and grill till golden and toasted. Heat up the crab mix using 5 oz. per sandwich. Put crab mix on the non buttered side of the bread. Place 2 slices of tomatoes on top of the crab mix. Sprinkle more of the Asiago Parmesan on top of the tomatoes. Put in broiler till cheese gets melted with some color on it.
To serve place the bread with the crab on it on the plate and place a slice of toasted bread on top. Serve with a side salad or French fries.
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Foggy
Wharf Salad |
Franciscan
This salad is also known as the Foggy Wharf Salad for the fog that rolls in every afternoon off San Francisco Bay. Fresh spring mix baby green, pangrattato (tiny seasoned bread crumbs), sesame seeds, brightly colored "toy box tomatoes" and local heirloom tomatoes, tossed in a soy sesame oil dressing that perfectly accents our Dungeness crab.
Ingredients
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
2 tablespoons sesame oil
1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
10 to 12 ( 4 inch ) round wonton wrappers
4 cups mixed baby greens
1 cup toy box cherry tomatoes
1 medium size ripe heirloom tomato
8 ounces fresh crab meat (1 cup)
3 tablespoons toasted black sesame seeds
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
In a small bowl, whisk together the vinegar, sugar,
ginger, sesame oil, and soy sauce. Set aside.
Stack the wonton wrappers on a cutting board and
cut them into matchsticks. In a large heavy skillet,
heat 1 to 2 inches over canola oil over high heat
to 375 F. The oil should be hot and bubbly. Scatter
the strips into the oil, several at the time. Fry
for 30 seconds to 1 minute, until the strips curl
and become golden brown and crisp. Using a slotted
spoon, transfer to a paper towel to drain.
In a large bowl, gently toss together the baby greens,
cherry and heirloom tomatoes, and all but a few wonton
strips. Pour the dressing over the top and toss again.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Divide among
serving plates and arrange the crab meat on top. Sprinkle
with the sesame seeds and the remaining wonton strips
and serve.
McCormick
& Kuleto's
Meyer Lemon
Custard
Ingredients
12 Meyer’s lemons
16 large eggs
16 large egg yolks
8 cups heavy cream
2 tsp. kosher salt
1 pinch of sugar
Ground white pepper to taste
Instructions
Grate and reserve lemon zest. Cut away all pith and
discard. Cut lemon in half and remove seeds. Combine
lemons (not zest), eggs, yolks, cream, salt and sugar
in blender. Puree until smooth. Strain into bowl season
with pepper and add zest. Skim off foam layer. In
hotel pan place ramekins & fill 2/3 full with
custard. Fill hotel pan with hot water 1/2 way
up the sides of the ramekins. Cover with double layer
of plastic wrap and poke holes at each end. Bake at
300 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until edges are lightly
brown and custard is almost set. Let cool in hot water
for 10 minutes and then remove and allow dish to cool
completely.
Meyer Lemon
Custard Plate with Dungeness Crab
Ingredients
1 custard
1 oz fresh Dungeness crab
1 tsp. American black caviar
1/4 cup assorted citrus segments
Squeeze chive essence.
Instructions
Invert custard on plate. Disperse citrus segments
around custard. Top with Dungeness crab and add caviar.
Garnish plate with chive essence.
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Whole Roasted Cracked
Dungeness Crab |
Scoma's
Ingredients
1 Whole Crab Dungeness (Cleaned and Cracked: ask your fishmonger to do it for you )
3 Each Large Garlic Cloves Chopped- lightly browned
2-3 oz Extra Virgin Olive oil
1⁄2 Lemon, juiced fresh
1/8 tsp Salt and ground pepper each
1 tsp. Chopped Fresh Parsley
2 sliced lemon wedge
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees. Put cracked crab in oven in a heavy skillet that
will fit.
- Pour the garlic, olive oil mixture into the crab and add salt and pepper and toss together well.
- Put into 425-degree oven for 12-15 minutes. Remove from oven and squeeze a 1⁄2 fresh lemon over crab.
- It should be steaming as you do this.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Garnish the Whole Roasted Cracked Dungeness Cab, with fresh chopped Italian parsley and lemon wedge. Serve in a large bowl with crab crackers and crab fork.
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