Golden Sardine opens with a name borrowed from Bob Kaufman's poetry collection, and the bartender probably knows who Kaufman is — that alone tells you something about the room.

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Based on 156 reviews

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Frenchie Wine Bar

Frenchie Wine Bar suits a night out when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Eco Terreno Urban Tasting Room

Eco Terreno Urban Tasting Room is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Millay Sake + Wine Bar

Millay Sake + Wine Bar is a wine bar pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Scarlet Fox

Scarlet Fox is a wine bar pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Birba

Birba is what happens when someone returns from Florence with a particular feeling — not a recipe, not a concept deck, but a conviction about how an evening should unspool.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Arcana

Arcana is not trying to meet you halfway, and that restraint is precisely the point.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Bar Gemini

Bar Gemini operates as a neighborhood wine bar with a clear point of view: Franco-Californian in spirit, intimate in scale, and unapologetically built for the kind of evening that lingers.

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Wine Bar•San Francisco•moderate

Roaming Goat

What Roaming Goat is doing on Union Street is genuinely specific in a way that most wine bars in this city are not: it's tracing a geographic argument.

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The top restaurants for wine in San Francisco include Binu Bonu, Golden Sardine, Frenchie Wine Bar. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.

What is the best wine restaurant in San Francisco?

Binu Bonu is among the top-rated options for wine in San Francisco, with a 10.0 Google rating and 42 reviews.

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