Dungeness Crab Season

San Francisco, California, is one of the most popular tourist attractions on the West Coast, attracting thousands of visitors each year. In fact, famous for its liberal past and well-known as a bastion of gay rights in the U.S., the city attracts so many people from alternative lifestyles as it is for families who wish to visit attractions historical museums and art galleries fantasy. However, if you plan to visit San Francisco, there is one aspect of city life you can not afford to miss the spectacular San Francisco crab.

The crab season in San Francisco runs from mid-November to mid-June, during which visitors will find some of the best crab on the West Coast, the best crab restaurants in the United States and some markets the world's best crab and crab festivals! Particularly famous is San Francisco famous Dungeness crab. Dungeness crab has played an important role in the history of San Francisco, which affect all sectors of San Franciscan life - the crab boat docks at Fisherman's Wharf in the immigrant population of the city - and inspiring a range of Italian dishes, Chinese and Vietnamese, among others.

And when you're in San Francisco during crab season, make sure you buy your crab of the best places in the city. The streets of Chinatown, for example, are filled with stalls that sell live fish stores during the crab season, so expect to find some of the freshly caught crabs more here, like the live crabs to fill the tanks of the area Many saltwater. Fisherman's Wharf, one of the most popular areas of San Francisco provides an excellent location where visitors can buy fresh crab, or find restaurants where they can enjoy ready-to-eat Dungeness crab and clam chowder .

During crab season, San Francisco also hosts festivals of the country's best crab. The San Francisco Crab Festival and Fisherman's Wharf Crab Festival are two festivals established shine cooking crab, but there are options other festival available to the viewer town: North Beach Crab Explorer, for example, gives seafood favorite city an Italian flavor, while the Union Square Crab Festival is well known for attracting celebrities and offers world-class restaurants, boutiques and high quality.

If you're hoping to visit San Francisco during crab season, you're sure to find a range of hotels in San Francisco that will meet your requirements. So if you're a monster culinary vacation, a businessman in the restaurant industry or simply passionate about crab, visit San Francisco during crab season - who knows what you might find!

Andrew Regan is a freelance journalist online.