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4 Best Places for Deviled Eggs in San Francisco

Where to find the best deviled eggs in San Francisco — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.2★. Spanning american and californian kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.

The best places for deviled eggs in San Francisco are Ungrafted, Starbelly, Gather in Berkeley, and more. Start with Ungrafted if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Marcus Chen•4 ranked picks•Published July 14, 2026•Updated July 14, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
UngraftedStarbellyGather in Berkeley
4 Best Places for Deviled Eggs in San Francisco
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Top picks at a glance

#1UngraftedAmerican • Dogpatch • moderate#2StarbellyCalifornian • Castro • moderate#3Gather in BerkeleyCalifornian • Berkeley • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated spots for deviled eggs in San Francisco. Whether you're a local hunting your next regular or visiting and want to eat well, these picks are sorted by quality and review depth.

Quick picks

Ungrafted
American • Dogpatch
Ungrafted takes its name seriously — this is a Dogpatch room that refuses to be trained along anyone else's trellis.
Starbelly
Californian • Castro
Starbelly has held its ground as the Castro's all-day anchor for long enough that regulars treat it as infrastructure rather than a restaurant.
Gather in Berkeley
Californian • Berkeley
Gather is what happens when a Berkeley restaurant actually builds its identity around sourcing instead of just gesturing at it.
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Editorial details
Author: Marcus Chen
Published: July 14, 2026
Last updated: July 14, 2026

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  1. 1. UngraftedView →
  2. 2. StarbellyView →
  3. 3. Gather in BerkeleyView →
  4. 4. Shelby’s RooftopView →

How the restaurants compare

Ungrafted
Dogpatch • American
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
cool
Mood
Dogpatch
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Starbelly
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Starbelly
Castro • Californian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
dinner
Mood
Castro
Gather in Berkeley
Berkeley • Californian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Berkeley
Shelby’s Rooftop
SOMA • American
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
business dinner
Mood
SOMA

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

4 ranked picks

Ungrafted — Ungrafted takes its name seriously — this is a Dogpatch room that refuses to be trained along anyone else's trellis. In a neighborhood still mid-becoming, all warehouse light and salt air and quiet industriousness, it has apparently figured out something most wine-forward bistros fumble: that the bottle list and the kitchen should feel like they grew from the same soil. What the room is known for, consistently, is that particular ease — a space where you're meant to think about what you're drinking without being lectured through it, and where the accessible price point encourages lingering rather than rationing. For a mid-week date night, it comes up again and again as a room that gives more than it takes. The menu is small and grounded, built for sharing in the unfussy rather than performative sense. The Steak Tartare is reportedly where a meal should begin — the kind of raw preparation that signals kitchen discipline from the first plate. Mushroom Toast reads on every account as a serious thing, earthy and dense, not a decorative gesture toward vegetarians. The Slow-Braised Pork Shoulder is the room's gravitational center by reputation: long-cooked, collapsing into itself, the sort of dish that diners consistently pair with something funky and gripped from the wine list. For dessert, the Chocolate Pot de Crème is known as a properly bitter close — cool, composed — while the Molasses Cake reportedly offers something warmer if the night calls for it. Practical intel that surfaces reliably: book early evening mid-week, when the room has space to breathe and the staff has more bandwidth. Regulars apparently position themselves near the bar for wine conversation and take a table when the night belongs to whoever's sitting across from them. Start with the tartare and the pork shoulder, then build outward from there. View restaurant →
Starbelly — Starbelly has held its ground as the Castro's all-day anchor for long enough that regulars treat it as infrastructure rather than a restaurant. The global label on the menu isn't a sign of identity confusion — it signals that the kitchen feels licensed to pull from wherever the craving leads, which is a different thing entirely. What the menu consistently reflects, according to longtime patrons and the restaurant's own positioning, is a room calibrated for the Sunday-morning crowd and the Thursday-night date in equal measure. For a price-level-two room, the intellectual range on that menu is notably wider than the check would suggest. The dishes Starbelly is best known for lean into that casual-but-considered ethos. The Loco Moco — a Hawaiian-diner staple that many San Francisco kitchens either avoid or overthink — is frequently cited as the most telling item on the menu, reportedly executed with the kind of earnestness the dish actually requires rather than ironic distance. The Chilaquiles draw consistent attention, as does the Potato Pizza, which diners describe as a savory-starch commitment that doesn't rely on nostalgia to justify itself. The Challah French Toast is understood to deliver the eggy, custardy density the dish demands, and the Deviled Eggs have developed a reputation as the bar snack that anchors the table while everything else gets sorted out. Practical note: weekend mornings before eleven are the move if you want to avoid a wait that stretches into the street. The bar seats are the better call for solo diners; front-window spots suit anyone who came for the Castro sidewalk as much as the plate. If the menu's range creates decision paralysis, the Loco Moco or Chilaquiles are the dishes most consistently flagged as the right place to start. View restaurant →
Gather in Berkeley — Gather is what happens when a Berkeley restaurant actually builds its identity around sourcing instead of just gesturing at it. The supplier list reads like a values statement: Marin Sun Farms beef, Straus Organic dairy, Mt. Lassen fish. These aren't decorative callouts on the menu — they're the structural logic of the whole operation. The crowd reportedly skews academic and intentional, people who care about supply chains without making dinner a seminar. At price level one, that combination is genuinely unusual. Feeding people this carefully, this cheaply, in the Bay Area is the kind of thing that earns a restaurant its regulars. The Tombo Tuna Sashimi is where Gather's global framing comes into focus — it's the dish that signals the kitchen isn't just doing farmers-market California. The Mussels from the Oven have a reputation for arriving briny and generous, the kind of preparation that lets good sourcing speak. The Marin Sun Farms Double Smash Burger is consistently cited as a version that justifies the format — properly committed to what a smash burger is supposed to be, not a steakhouse patty in disguise. The Mt. Lassen Steelhead Trout is the dish that keeps showing up in conversations about what to order here, the kind of anchor that defines a menu. Round it out with the Straus Organic Vanilla Ice Cream; when the dairy is this good, the simplest dessert tends to be the right call. Practical notes: the room reportedly gets loud and the pacing shifts when it fills, so weeknight early-arrival is the standard advice from regulars. The open kitchen area is worth requesting. Four dishes between two people is the consensus sweet spot — resist the impulse to stack the table. Book ahead Thursday through Saturday, and lead with the Steelhead Trout. View restaurant →

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Shelby’s Rooftop — Shelby's Rooftop is doing something SOMA genuinely needed: a mid-price room with real altitude, both literal and conceptual. Perched above a neighborhood that runs mostly on tech-casual lunch counters and loading docks, it positions itself as the place you go when you want the city to feel like it's performing for you — without the tasting-menu surcharge to see the show. The crowd reportedly skews creative-class, brunch here reads more as occasion than refueling stop, and the kitchen's reputation suggests it has no interest in the usual rooftop trade-off where the view compensates for the food. The menu is brunch-forward but carries enough range to justify a second look. The Deviled Eggs are known as the right way to open — snackable, crowd-pleasing, and calibrated to the room. The Spanish Octopus with Grits is where the kitchen's ambitions become legible: the pairing of a properly prepared cephalopod with a Southern low-country base is the combination diners consistently single out, and by most accounts it's the dish that justifies the trip on its own. The Kaya French Toast draws on Southeast Asian coconut jam as its foundation, and the menu's reach here — sweet-savory, culturally specific — suggests a kitchen browsing well outside its zip code. The Shelby's Burger anchors the savory side for anyone who prefers their brunch without a concept attached. Practical notes worth knowing: the rooftop fills quickly on weekends, and the outer tables — the ones that actually earn the view — go first. Walk-in optimism peaks early and fades fast, so a reservation is the smarter play. The move, according to repeat visitors, is to open with the Deviled Eggs, treat the Spanish Octopus with Grits as the non-negotiable centerpiece, and book a table before noon. View restaurant →

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