Where Not to Eat

A Guide to Dining at S.F.’s Cliffside Tourist Traps

“A tourist trap since 1863!” -Spotswood Photo: Courtesy of the Parks Conservancy

There are activities we don’t always have the time or the stomach for here at Grub Street, given our busy schedule of fancy event hopping, pizza tracking, and vodka mocking. Thus we’re happy to cede the floor to SF Gate blogger Beth Spotswood when it comes to touring the dusty, tourist-trappy corners of town, which are often located next to bodies of water. Today she brings us a triple report from the Cliff House (“a tourist trap since 1863!), semi-endangered Louis’ Restaurant, and the aforementioned No. 9 Fishermen’s Grotto. The biggest takeaways: Louis’ has spectacular fries, and higher end Sutro’s at the Cliff House “looks like the kind of place Michael Mann would shoot a scene.”

Tourist Trapped: Grottos, Cliffs and an Amazing Diner [SF Gate]
Earlier: Fishermen’s Grotto Called ‘The Mel Gibson of Restaurants’ [Grub Street]

A Guide to Dining at S.F.’s Cliffside Tourist Traps