Nob Hill + Chinatown, San Francisco · restaurant
Twenty stools at a marble counter, cash only, no reservations, a San Francisco institution that's been serving seafood the same way since 1912. The menu stays deliberately simple: raw oysters, clam chowder, shrimp cocktail, and the Crab Back, an inverted Dungeness shell filled with tomalley and melted butter, best finished with plenty of sourdough.