Fisherman’s Wharf’s Oldest Restaurant Castagnola’s Will Reopen, After Settling Messy Lawsuit With the City

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/22/fishermans-wharfs-oldest-restaurant-castagnolas-will-reopen-after-settling-messy-lawsuit-with-the-city/The crab cocktail will flow again at Fisherman’s Wharf steak-and-seafood spot Castagnola’s, which has been closed since the pandemic and embroiled in a $1.1 million lawsuit over unpaid rent, but they’ve just settled that lawsuit. We’ve lost a number of those old-style Fisherman’s Wharf seafood restaurants since the pandemic hit, because the sudden elimination of tourists (and a lack of local regulars patronizing the places) made those large-scale restaurants an untenable proposition. Among those that closed in 2020 and just never reopened was Castagnola’s on Jefferson Street, Fisherman’s Wharf’s oldest continually operat