Sotto Mare is a neighborhood Italian seafood restaurant in North Beach, built around the freshest fish and shellfish available daily. The menu covers oysters and clams on the half shell, Boston-style clam chowder, baccala, Louis salads, seafood pastas, and seafood risotto, with a selection of fresh fish also sold for cooking at home.
The Crab Cioppino is the dish the place is known for — a crab-leg, shrimp, mussel, and squid-loaded bowl big enough to wear a bib for. The room runs divier and more rambunctious than the area's other old-school Italian seafood spots, with tickets flying across the restaurant on a clothesline and maritime paraphernalia covering the walls.
It carries a reputation locally as earnest, off-the-map Italian seafood.
The Crab Cioppino is the dish the place is known for — a crab-leg, shrimp, mussel, and squid-loaded bowl big enough to wear a bib for. The room runs divier and more rambunctious than the area's other old-school Italian seafood spots, with tickets flying across the restaurant on a clothesline and maritime paraphernalia covering the walls.
It carries a reputation locally as earnest, off-the-map Italian seafood.