@Jeffro - Any [San Francisco] food recommendations you can pass along?

Seafood is an old & important theme of "The City on the Bay". San Francisco is perched on craggy terrain, inhospitable to agriculture. It turned to the sea, early, and its cultural milieu is still heavily oriented toward the maritime, and fishing.

This is just a quick 'general' response, but of course the main thing is going to be, 'How should attendees at next months 10th Anniversary WordCamp try to work in a suitable & memorable culinary experience, while at this historic convention'?

Well, though fishing no longer plays a dominant role in the economy of the city, the fisheries & docks & waterfronts remain near & dear to the heart & soul of this place. Just earlier this year, I saw a flap there over a development that would displace older, lower-key traditional/cultural situations & activities, along a waterfront. People were getting a little hot, that casual & popular uses of the old-style maritime scene are giving way.

There is a lively sport fishing charter industry, and there are small-time commercial fishers going out into the fog, and returning with the catch-o'-the-day.

Look at the lead image on Wikipedia's entry for The Bay Lights. In the foreground of this image of The Bay Lights at night, are the stumps of old wooden dock-pilings. Very much the roots of modern San Francisco, and it looks like a conscious decision of the photographer, to include them.