One of San Francisco's most famous Seafood restaurants, Rocco's boasts the best seafood menu in town. Dark wood and candlelight surround you as you sit in a booth or tabe. The bar is also the main attraction, and drinks are great here. The potent specialty of the house is the Blue Sky Martini.

Starters include oysters on the half shell, steamed clams, fried calamari, mussles and more. If you want a little of everything in the way of seafood, don't miss the North Beach Cioppino, which includes clams, mussels, fish, crab legs, shrimp and more.

2080 Van Ness Avenue @ Pacific Avenue.
567-7600

Mark Lusardi brings his magic touch with fish to Upper Polk. There's lots to shuck and swallow at the raw bar, but don't miss tropical seafood cocktails (like the crab with mango and lemongrass) piled glamorously into martini glasses. Splendid porcini-seared sea bass, grilled sailfish, and scallops with truffled mushroom salad. Save room for the hot fudge sundae.

2237 Polk @ Green
474-4088

Oysters used to be a worker's food, cooked up with eggs and onions into a hangtown fry or shucked by the dozen at any number of downtown oyster bars. In keeping with this tradition, the Swan Oyster Depot has nothing posh about it. But for impeccably fresh seafood -- and no attitude -- this is the place. Sit at the marble counter, scoop up a handful of tiny oyster crackers, and slurp down oysters and clams on the half shell ($6.25 for six). A generous shrimp cocktail with homemade horseradish sauce is $5.75, while a cup of chowder -- creamy, buttery, full of clams, and without a bread bowl in sight -- is just $2.

1517 Polk @ California
673-1101