Swan Oyster Depot

Just have to ask: was this dinner for six or eight? :slight_smile:

dough

crab back
No guts no glory. i could just eat this with bread all damn day. why don’t we have this in fuckin la?

chowder

dozen oysters

dozen eggs

salad

happy year of the bacon

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Amazing!
Wish they took reservations for lunch.

pro tip - if it’s a nice day, bypass the line, order takeout and make the squirrels jealous by eatting at the picnic tables in lafayette park.

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Awesome suggestion, appreciate it!

What kind of crab is that?

Hi @PorkyBelly,

Looks delicious! :slight_smile: Thanks for the report. For the crab back, is that tomalley only, or is there also crab roe mixed in? Either way sounds great. :slight_smile:

Not likely any crab roe. Commercial fishermen cannot legally harvest female dungies.

If you enjoy crab roe, you can catch and keep female dungies. Recreational crabbers are not gender restricted.

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no roe, just the brains, fat, liver and crabby innards. it’s served cold and is rich, briny, buttery, a little bitter and with just a hint of seafood funkiness.

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From others replies it appears to be Dungeness. I guess the small size is because it’s so late in the season.

dungeness

Yep, they’re all small.

Perfect description of the crab back. It’s exactly how I remembered it.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Customer-alleges-racist-treatment-at-S-F-icon-16406747.php

As a side note, Phil Rosenthal got food poisoning on his Netflix show and you can kind of deduce that it was this place.

https://www.sfgate.com/food/slideshow/San-Francisco-restaurants-and-cafes-that-earned-a-198078.php