BTC, ETH, XMR, USDT (ERC-20, TRC-20, SOL, TON, BSC), USDC, SOL, LTC, BNB, TON, DOGE, NEAR, TRX and 20+ more across 30+ networks. The checkout quotes the exact amount in your chosen asset and a fresh deposit address.
Buy Horatio's gift cards with crypto | uSwap
Pay any supported crypto for a Horatio's gift card and redeem it at the San Leandro, CA waterfront restaurant — US-only, delivered to your inbox.
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A crypto on-ramp to a San Leandro dinner table
Horatio’s is the waterfront seafood spot perched above Monarch Bay in San Leandro, California — the kind of place locals book for anniversary dinners and out-of-towners stumble into for the view. The gift card is the cleanest way to put crypto on the table there. Pick an amount, pay in BTC, ETH, XMR, USDT or any of the 30+ networks uSwap supports, and a redemption code arrives by email. Walk in, hand it to the server, eat. The card is US-only — it redeems at the one Horatio’s address, not at any Landry’s-affiliated chain. If you don’t live within driving range of the East Bay, this isn’t your gift card.
Why pay in crypto for a restaurant tab
Gift-card rails are the path of least resistance for spending crypto on real-world meals without a card issuer, a bank wire, or a fiat off-ramp in the middle. You send from your wallet, you get a code, the code pays for grilled salmon and a glass of wine. There’s no merchant terminal asking for KYC, no chargeback window, no statement line that reads “crypto exchange.” For privacy-first payers — XMR holders especially — this is the shortest distance between a hot wallet and a sit-down dinner. The check at the end of the night settles in dollars at Horatio’s POS; the funding side stays in whichever asset you actually hold.
0% on the crypto, retail markup on the spend
uSwap charges 0% on the crypto-to-crypto leg. There’s no spread baked into the quote and no platform fee skimmed off the top — what the engine quotes is what hits the deposit address. The spend side carries a small retail markup on the gift card itself, the same way every gift-card reseller works. That markup is what funds the engine, which is why the swap layer can stay free. You see the final card value before you confirm; there are no surprise deductions after payment lands.
What “any crypto in” actually means
The checkout accepts BTC, ETH, XMR, SOL, LTC, USDC, USDT (on ERC-20, TRC-20, SOL, TON and BSC), BNB, TON, DOGE, NEAR, TRX, and another twenty-plus assets across 30+ networks. You don’t pre-convert to a stablecoin, you don’t bridge to a specific chain — you pay from whatever wallet you already have open. The router handles the asset conversion behind the deposit address and the gift-card issuer gets paid in the currency it expects. From your side it looks like one address and one transaction.
Recovery that doesn’t punish a late TX
Mempools get congested. Wallets sometimes round fees down. If your payment lands after the quote window or short of the quoted amount, the recovery flow gives you three real options: take the current market rate for what actually arrived, hold the funds and wait for a better rate, or refund to an address you control. No support ticket, no “funds stuck” dead end. The same routing engine that priced the original quote runs the recovery side, so the rates you see are live, not stale.
When to buy one
A Horatio’s card is a good fit for an anniversary at the waterfront, a Bay Area visitor who wants a real seafood dinner with a view, or a gift to someone in the East Bay who doesn’t hold crypto themselves. It’s also the cleanest way for a long-term holder to convert a small slice of a position into a specific, dated experience. Pay in the asset you hold, hand over a code at the host stand, leave with the receipt in dollars.