Slow Crab Festival Teams Up with S.F. Brewers Guild

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Merry Dungeness.

​Northern California's Dungeness crab sport-fishing season opened last weekend. The commercial season launches next week, an occasion as momentous for San Franciscans as the first drift of cherry blossoms from the trees at Tokyo's Ueno Park. That means it's not too soon to plan your first crustacean-cracking events of the year.

For one with the unmistakable feel of locavore fellowship, there's the annual Slow Crab Festival, a benefit organized by San Francisco's Slow Food chapter. This year it's at the Women's Building, and the San Francisco Brewers Guild is on board. Students from the California Culinary Academy are in the kitchen, Paul Johnson of Monterey Fish is speaking, and the beer's from Magnolia, 21st Amendment, Thirsty Bear, and Social Kitchen and Brewery. Proceeds benefit Slow Food's Urban School Garden Project.

Fourth Annual Slow Crab Festival
When: Sat., Dec. 4, 6 p.m.
Where: Women's Building, 3543 18th St (at Guerrero)
Cost: $60 for Slow Food members, $65 for non-members
Tickets via Brown Paper Tickets