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photo credit: Broad Street Oyster Co.
Broad Street Oyster Co.
The view of the Balclutha and the Bay from Broad Street Oyster Co. might be stunning, but it’s not enough to remedy that a meal here is an overpriced and underwhelming tourist trap. This is an LA mini-chain transplant, and we should have known they were doomed the second they chose to open their first SF location in Ghirardelli Square. The lobster roll has a meat-to-bread ratio that’s straight-up sad—you’ll have enough leftover bread to feed the sea lions at Pier 39. The oysters are tiny and extra briny, and the $42 cioppino tastes like Ragu and is coated in a sneeze-inducing amount of celery salt. Even the burger, which is surprisingly the second-best thing on the menu, is better at the In-N-Out two steps away (where it’s a quarter of the price). But if your second cousin drags you here, ordering the excellent thick fries and a beer is the way to go—it’s the only thing that can successfully drown out all the influencers endlessly peddling lobster rolls.