| Breakfast: |
7 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Daily |
| Continental: |
10:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m., Monday - Friday |
| Brunch: |
7 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Saturday - Sunday |
| Lunch: |
11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Daily |
| Dinner: |
5 p.m. - 10 p.m., Sunday - Thursday
5 p.m. - 11 p.m., Friday - Saturday |
| Bar: |
7 a.m. - 10 p.m., Sunday - Thursday
7 a.m. - 11 p.m., Friday - Saturday |
| Happy Hour: |
3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Monday - Friday |
Blue Mermaid Chowder House & Bar
471 Jefferson Street
San Francisco, California 94109
Adjacent to Argonaut Hotel at Hyde
| Phone: | 415.771.2222 |
| Fax: | 415.447.4014 |
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For more information, contact
General Manager Chris Strawbridge
415.345.5532
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The Tale of the Blue Mermaid
She is said to swim the waters between the nearby Farallon Islands and San Francisco Bay. Some said she lures sailors to their watery demise with her oh-so enchanting siren's song, and others consider seeing her a lucky omen for their seafaring adventures...
Sir Francis Drake reportedly first saw the captivating Blue Mermaid in 1579. He dropped anchor at the island for supplies when he recorded in his log that "we have seen a fair merry-maid, her long chestnut hair floating like fine sea-weeds along the froth, hiding what appeared to be a blue fish tail, singing her songs as plaintively as the waves."
Sightings continued into the 1800s as more and more ships made their way into the Bay and the city of San Francisco grew. The visiting deckhands wrote that they saw her "in all her splendor, sunning herself on the rocks and singing softly." As they drew closer, smitten by her beauty and enchanting melody, the startled mermaid "darted into the sea and was off."
But her beauty is not all innocence. The Blue Mermaid is said to have a penchant for treasure. And the ferocious storms she whipped up sunk heavily-laden ships like Prince Alfred, which was lost in 1874 off the Duxbury Reef. Once on the seafloor, she pillaged its hull of the gold bullion cargo.
Today, only the odd fisherman claims to hear her song and even fewer claim to see her. But take a stroll down the Wharf and listen carefully to the sound of the sea. Who knows what you may hear.
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