SFGATE food writer Madeline Wells crowns this nautical-themed North Beach restaurant as having the best cioppino in San Francisco. Its rendition is meant to serve two and comes teeming with fresh ...

Cioppino originated in San Francisco in the late 1800s, crafted by Italian immigrant fishermen who combined the day’s catch with a robust tomato broth.

Cioppino at Sotto Mare in San Francisco's North Beach on Jan. 19, 2023. Photo by Douglas Zimmerman; illustration by SFGATE By Madeline Wells , Senior Food Reporter Updated Jan 26, 2023 9:36 a.m.

Cioppino is one of San Francisco’s own, a kind of Italian waterfront stew that evolved from Ligurian recipes transported to Californian shores in the 19th century.

Italian fishermen who immigrated to San Francisco in the 1800s created cioppino (pronounced chuh-PEE-noh) to use leftovers ...

Here, you’ll find storied sourdough, garlicky cioppino, pioneering steam beer, ... It wouldn’t be San Francisco without the Mission’s squadron of gut-busting taquerias.

For Christmas Eve dinner, Judith Tirado, Michael Mina's late mother-in-law, always prepared cioppino—the San Francisco seafood stew that owes its origins to fishermen from Italy's Ligurian coast.

Tejal Rao, a California restaurant critic for The Times, recently wrote about where to eat cioppino in San Francisco. If you read one story, make it this.