King Crab Legs In San Francisco Restaurants?
My daughters and I are hooked on the show Deadliest Catch and we always have a craving after each episode ends on Tivo. (Interestingly, my wife has gone off ever eating them again after seeing so many of them in the pots on the ships ... post-traumatic Hitchcock Disorder.)
Does anybody know a restaurant(s) in the city limits that has them on the menu? We'd love a list to try.
I absolutely love my Dungeness and am not "cheating" on them in anyway, but this craving needs to be filled, even via the frozen route (within reason). Not interested in making them at home.
Thanks in advance.
By NoeMan
on Aug 19, 2008 11:08 PM
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During the season, you can find them live at Hong Kong seafood places, but you'll have to wait until it starts again.
"Not interested in making them at home."
All you do is buy some frozen legs, defrost them, then crack and eat with your choice of condiments. Restaurants serving them now aren't doing anything more than that for you. Easier at home, where you can use a small pair of scissors to slit the shells lengthwise.
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I agree with Melanie -- they're super easy to make at home (I just steam them for a few minutes and serve with melted butter on the side). I buy them at Costco during their "Seafood Roadshow" days.
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I am fairly certain that the Leatherneck Steakhouse has them on their dinner menu year-round.
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King crab is on the menu now.
http://www.marineclub.com/PDFfiles/LS...
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Leatherneck Steakhouse & Lounge
609 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94102
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Thanks, but it's not about degree of difficulty, it's about going out/leaving the house, being waited on, no clean up, an event with Dad, no stinky garbage, etc.
Thanks for the info on the live ones. Is the season basically the same as Dungeness ???
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Well, I guess you could check with Zuni to see if the kitchen could work the same magic on a pile of defrosted crab legs on a plain plate as they did for a nectarine. Or you could save up your pennies until the season starts (like $100 worth) and order a live one at a Hong Kong style restaurant. Here's a discussion from last year,
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/392135 , in which I posted that I saw them at China First on Clement.
Edited to add: I just tried to find the account of DC hound, Joe H, on his horror of being presented with a live snow crab at the table in Vancouver (it reached out and touched him), and it seems to have been removed. In any case, he later chalked it up to cultural differences. Maybe that's the kind of experience you'd like to share with your daughter.
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Is there such a thing as fresh King crab legs?? Understood they were almost always frozen in continental US. Doubt if you will ever see a live King crab in San Francisco.
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Old article and it is the New York Times so take it with a pinch of Old Bay Seasoning.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage...
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Yes, if you consider LIVE whole crabs during the short season. They're the monsters in the HK restaurant tanks.
Otherwise, they're cooked and frozen, and oversalted, IMO.
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Thanks for the info, everyone !
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