Alioto-Lazio is one of the last of the original San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf family-owned wholesale and retail fish companies. Tom Lazio started the business decades ago. Today the company is a uniquely woman-owned and woman-operated wholesale fish company -- one of very few in the world.
In the photo: from left, Annette Traverso, Stephanie Cincotta, Angela Cincotta and Mary Ann Shepherd are seen at the family-owned Alioto-Lazio Fish Company in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. The family has run the business since Stephanie Cincotta's father, Tom Lazio, co-founded the company with Frank Alioto more than 50 years ago. Photo by Paul Chinn for the San Francisco Chronicle
I have been enjoying crab, as well as whatever else is fresh and available, from the Alioto-Lazio Fish Company since their beginning fifty years ago. And yes, I am that old -- I'm in my mid sixties.
My family first arrived in San Francisco in the Gold Rush year of 1849 and I want to assure you that Alioto-Lazio is as close as you can possibly get to the real, original San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf experience. Their crab is consistently among the best available to anyone at any price.Alioto-Lazio Fish Company still operates out of the original address at and they have a backdoor that opens to accept daily catches direct from the fishing boats. This is as close to the ocean source as you can possibly get without going out to sea yourself.
All that was true until today. Now the business is shutting and locking its doors. Exxon Mobil pollution caused by old leaky tanks adjacent to Lazio-Alioto claimed its victim.
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