Castagnola’s

Castagnola's was a historical restaurant in San Francisco, California, in the city's Fisherman's Wharf at 286 Jefferson Street. The restaurant was famous for its crab cocktail. It was the oldest restaurant on the Wharf.

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Type: Building
Cuisine: Italian
Description: Defunct restaurant in San Francisco, California, U.S.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include USS Pampanito and Musée Mécanique.

USS Pampanito

Museum

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USS Pampanito is a Balao-class submarine built for the United States Navy during World War II; it is the third U.S. Navy vessel named for the pompano fish. USS Pampanito is situated 720 feet northeast of Castagnola’s.

Musée Mécanique

Amusement arcade

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The Musée Mécanique is a for-profit interactive museum of 20th-century penny arcade games and artifacts, located at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. With over 300 mechanical machines, it is one of the world's largest privately owned collections. Musée Mécanique is situated 640 feet northeast of Castagnola’s.

Lombard Street

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Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero. Lombard Street is situated 2,200 feet south of Castagnola’s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fisherman’s Wharf and Russian Hill.

Fisherman’s Wharf

Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.

San Francisco's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.

Russian Hill

Neighborhood

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Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".

North Beach

Quarter

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North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy.

Castagnola’s

Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.8082° or 37° 48′ 30″ north

Longitude

-122.41756° or 122° 25′ 3″ west

Levels

Height

26 feet (8 metres)

Open location code

849VRH5J+7X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 229326454

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap attribute

cuisine=italian

Wikidata ID

Q16890102

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