Best Fine Dining Restaurants in San Francisco : 92 Picks for 2026

The Golden Yak

The Golden Yak is the kind of restaurant room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Falafelland

Falafelland is an easy mediterranean option in San Francisco to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Latin American•San Francisco•$$$$

Gaia Masala & Burger San Francisco

Gaia Masala & Burger San Francisco is a restaurant restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Casa Sofia

Casa Sofia is a latin american restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Esme

Esme is a sensible french call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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10.0

Based on 15 reviews

Homey kitchen 大城小馆

Homey kitchen 大城小馆 is a restaurant restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Maggie & Mac's

Maggie & Mac's is a restaurant restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Ramen•San Francisco•$$$$

MENSHO

Mensho arrived in San Francisco's Lower Nob Hill as the city's first serious dispatch from a Tokyo ramen operation, and the queue that forms outside the small storefront well before opening time suggests the neighborhood recognized what…

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9.8

Based on 2802 reviews

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Chinese•San Francisco•$$$$

Lavanta Mezze Bar & Restaurant

There's a location clarification worth making upfront: Lavanta Mezze Bar & Restaurant sits in San Leandro, not San Francisco proper — a distinction that matters if you're planning your evening around a neighborhood crawl, but one that sh…

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LetsSweet Kitchen

LetsSweet Kitchen is a chinese pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Olchi Korean Cuisine

Olchi Korean Cuisine is a sensible korean call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Golden Mediterranean Cuisine

Golden Mediterranean Cuisine is a restaurant restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Milos Taverna

Milos Taverna is a greek restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Kapari Restaurant

Kapari Restaurant is a strong brunch move in San Francisco when you want the meal to feel worth leaving the house for.

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Thai•San Francisco•$$$$

Khun Mae Thai Noodles

Khun Mae Thai Noodles is a thai restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Dining Yamamoto

Dining Yamamoto is an easy sushi option in San Francisco to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Cafe 34

Cafe 34 is a sensible mediterranean call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Show de Carnes Brazilian Steakhouse

Show de Carnes Brazilian Steakhouse is the kind of steakhouse room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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9.6

Based on 1366 reviews

Brazilian•San Francisco•$$$$

Sabor Gaúcho Prime Brazilian Steakhouse

Sabor Gaúcho Prime arrived in Russian Hill with a clear declaration of intent: it took over the old Rouge space at Broadway and Polk, gut-renovated it into something polished and theatrical, and installed a rodízio format anchored by co-…

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Coffee Shop•San Francisco•$$$$

Diwali Indian Cuisine

At 1499 Valencia Street, Diwali Indian Cuisine occupies an interesting position in San Francisco's South Indian dining landscape — not the scene-y spot people photograph for Instagram, but the kind of place that draws regulars who care m…

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Doppio Coffee & Brunch

Doppio Coffee & Brunch on Mission Street is SoMa's answer to a particular morning-hour need: a café that takes both its coffee program and its food seriously without inflating either into a production.

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Mexican•San Francisco•$$$$

Zitouna

Zitouna is Tunisian-leaning Mediterranean in a way that most of SF's pan-Mediterranean spots don't even attempt.

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Buena Vida Cantina on Belden

Buena Vida Cantina on Belden is the Financial District's answer to a question the neighborhood has needed answered for a while: where do you actually drink mezcal and eat tacos in an alley that doesn't feel like a tourist trap or a rushe…

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9.6

Based on 263 reviews

Fine Dining•San Francisco•$$$$

Taste of India – Authentic Indian Restaurant [San Francisco]

West Portal isn't the neighborhood most people associate with ambitious Indian cooking — it's a quiet, residential stretch more known for its Muni stop than its spice route — which makes Taste of India's presence on W Portal Ave all the…

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Kiln

Kiln arrives with a decade's worth of intentionality behind it.

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9.6

Based on 155 reviews

SF Grill

SF Grill suits a night out when you want mediterranean that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Namaste SF Indian Cuisine

Namaste SF Indian Cuisine is a sensible indian call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Bar Maritime

Bar Maritime is a sensible cocktail bar call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Brunch•San Francisco•$$$$

TUR

TUR earns a weekend detour when you want brunch that beats the usual default.

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Kokkari Estiatorio

Kokkari Estiatorio has held its position as San Francisco's most serious Greek restaurant for long enough that the reputation no longer requires defending — it simply requires a reservation.

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9.4

Based on 3503 reviews

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Breakfast•San Francisco•$$$$

el Mil Amores

El Mil Amores lands on 21st Street in the Mission with a Day-Glo pink door and a very specific thesis: that Mexico City breakfast culture — chilaquiles, slow-built salsas, concha-based sweets repurposed as savory anchors — deserves the s…

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Japanese•San Francisco•$$$$

Wako Japanese Restaurant

Wako is one of the Inner Richmond's clearest arguments that destination-level omakase doesn't require a downtown address or a months-long waitlist.

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Spanish•San Francisco•$$$$

Destapas SF

Destapas SF is doing something specific on 24th Street: owners Luis Raga and Raul Aguilera built their Mission District spot around the Spanish bar model — the kind of place where you show up with friends, order a round of tapas, and let…

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Marina Indian Cuisine

On Lombard Street in the Marina, this Indian-Nepalese kitchen opened under new ownership in late 2024, and its dual identity is the whole point.

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SSAL

SSAL occupies a specific and underserved position in San Francisco's dining landscape: it is the city's most serious attempt at Korean fine dining built from the ground up by a chef-couple with deep classical training and a genuine cultu…

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9.4

Based on 223 reviews

Japanese•San Francisco•$$$$

YASIJANG

YASIJANG is the kind of korean room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Ramen Kameko

Ramen Kameko suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Bar and Grill•San Francisco•$$$$

MUGUNGHWA Korean Restaurant

MUGUNGHWA Korean Restaurant is a sensible korean call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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SoMa Social

SoMa Social is a bar and grill restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Harris' Restaurant - The San Francisco Steakhouse

Some steakhouses chase trends.

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Based on 1445 reviews

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Italian•San Francisco•$$$$

MICHELIN ★★★GREEN STAR

Quince

Michael and Lindsay Tusk's three-Michelin-star restaurant in Jackson Square occupies a specific and seriously considered position in American fine dining — not as a showpiece of technique for its own sake, but as the long result of a par…

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Korean Barbecue•San Francisco•$$$$

MICHELIN ★★★GREEN STAR

Atelier Crenn

Atelier Crenn is Dominique Crenn's most personal project — a Cow Hollow dining room where the menu is presented as a poem and each course is understood as one of its stanzas.

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SAN HO WON

San Ho Won occupies a practically unmarked all-white building in the Mission, and that studied anonymity is part of the proposition: Corey Lee — the three-Michelin-star mind behind Benu — and chef Jeong-In Hwang built a Korean charcoal b…

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American•San Francisco•$$$$

MICHELIN ★★

Saison

Saison is, at its core, a fire restaurant — and that distinction is not decorative.

michelin stardate night

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Brunch•San Francisco•$$$$

MICHELIN ★★

Acquerello

Acquerello is, by any honest measure, the standard-bearer for classic Italian fine dining in San Francisco — a distinction it has held not by reinventing itself but by refusing to compromise the form.

brunchitalianmichelin star

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Based on 652 reviews

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The Parthenon

The Parthenon landed on Eater SF's radar as one of San Francisco's newer Greek arrivals, and it's staked out an interesting, slightly contradictory identity on Sutter Street in Union Square.

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Based on 521 reviews

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Tiya

The Sarkar brothers — Sujan, whose Michelin-starred Chicago room Indienne earned a James Beard Award nomination, and Pujan — did not open Tiya to serve San Francisco a cautious interpretation of Indian food.

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American•San Francisco•$$$$

MICHELIN ★★

Birdsong

At 1085 Mission Street, in a SoMa corridor that does not conventionally announce fine dining, Birdsong has spent seven-plus years building the case that California's most serious cooking can emerge from fire, wood, and a precise reverenc…

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North Indian•San Francisco•$$$$

Omakase

Omakase in San Francisco is doing something that requires genuine nerve: asking diners to surrender the menu entirely at a price level where the math on disappointment is unforgiving.

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Apna Chulha

Apna Chulha is a north indian pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Based on 377 reviews

Holbrook House

Holbrook House is a FiDi lunch destination built for people who still believe the midday meal should feel like an occasion.

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Bar Iris

Bar Iris is doing something that sounds like a pitch meeting concept but actually works in practice: it's a full cocktail bar on Polk Street in Russian Hill, backed by the kitchen of Nisei — Chef David Yoshimura's Michelin-starred Japane…

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Bar•San Francisco•$$$$

MICHELIN ★GREEN STAR

Bar Crenn

Bar Crenn occupies a specific and deliberate niche in San Francisco's fine dining ecosystem — it is simultaneously a drop-in cocktail bar and a Michelin-starred omakase counter, and the fact that both live within the same room without ei…

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Japanese•San Francisco•$$$$

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Nisei

Nisei is one of the most personally grounded restaurants to emerge from San Francisco's fine dining scene in recent years.

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Based on 231 reviews

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Bistro La Chaumière

Bistro La Chaumière is the kind of french room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Based on 168 reviews

SUNGHO

SUNGHO is a korean pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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O' by Claude Le Tohic

Atop ONE65, Claude Le Tohic's six-floor French undertaking, O' occupies its crowning floor with fewer than ten tables — a deliberate gesture toward intimacy that the Michelin one-star (held 2023 and 2024) seems to endorse.

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Based on 152 reviews

ABSteak by Chef Akira Back

ABSteak by Chef Akira Back is the kind of steakhouse room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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CHEF XIONG KITCHEN 川香園鉄木真

CHEF XIONG KITCHEN 川香園鉄木真 suits a night out when you want restaurant that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Sato Omakase

Sato Omakase suits a night out when you want sushi that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Californian•San Francisco•$$$$

HWA MI WON

HWA MI WON is a sensible korean call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Parasol

Parasol is a sensible californian call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Vegan•San Francisco•$$$$

The Vegan Hood Chefs

The Vegan Hood Chefs is an easy vegan option in San Francisco to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Bakery•San Francisco•$$$$

Saltwater Bakeshop

Saltwater Bakeshop is a bakery restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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American•San Francisco•$$$$

Son and Garden

Some rooms whisper; Son and Garden shouts in florals.

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9.0

Based on 1344 reviews

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Alexander's Steakhouse

Alexander's Steakhouse in San Francisco is not attempting to be another white-tablecloth beef institution.

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9.0

Based on 1101 reviews

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Niku Steakhouse

Niku Steakhouse occupies the Design District behind a gold door, the kind of overture that can read as bluster or confidence.

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9.0

Based on 850 reviews

Hakashi Japanese Sushi Bar & Grill

Hakashi Japanese Sushi Bar & Grill is a sushi pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Italian•San Francisco•$$$$

Dalida Restaurant

Dalida Restaurant is the kind of mediterranean room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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MAMA Oakland

MAMA Oakland is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Bar Sprezzatura

Bar Sprezzatura is a cocktail bar pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Pub•San Francisco•$$$$

Bottle Club Pub

Bottle Club Pub is a pub pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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ZOË

ZOË is a cocktail bar pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Equal Parts SF

Equal Parts SF is a restaurant pick in San Francisco when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Thai•San Francisco•$$$$

HolyShred – Thai Street Food

HolyShred – Thai Street Food is a sensible thai call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Spanish•San Francisco•$$$$

Maillards - Noriega

Maillards - Noriega is a restaurant restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Bar Jamón

Bar Jamón is a spanish restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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PABU Izakaya

PABU Izakaya is the kind of sushi room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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8.8

Based on 1491 reviews

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Seafood•San Francisco•$$$$

Osso Steakhouse

Osso Steakhouse is the kind of seafood room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Californian•San Francisco•$$$$

7 Adams

7 Adams makes a clear argument: that a Michelin star and a working Californian's budget needn't be mutually exclusive.

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8.8

Based on 441 reviews

Vietnamese•San Francisco•$$$$

Pho Huong Viet

Pho Huong Viet is a vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Hamburguesa Bar

Hamburguesa Bar is a sensible restaurant call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Bowling Alley•Presidio•$$$$

Mastro's Steakhouse

Mastro's Steakhouse suits a night out when you want steakhouse that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Presidio Bowl

Presidio Bowl occupies a category that very few San Francisco venues can credibly claim: a bowling alley and outdoor dining destination set within the Presidio itself, where the surroundings perform a function that no amount of interior…

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BIB GOURMAND

BANSANG

Bansang occupies a Fillmore room that strains for posh — hanging rattan lamps, a gold chandelier, brown-on-brown tones borrowed from a Pantone catalogue — and the question, always, is whether the cooking earns the staging.

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Bon Délire

Bon Délire is a sensible french call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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The Vault Steakhouse

The Vault Steakhouse is an easy steakhouse option in San Francisco to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Smish Smash

Smish Smash is an easy restaurant option in San Francisco to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Chaat Diner

Chaat Diner is a indian restaurant in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Bar•San Francisco•$$$$

Secret Bar at Son & Garden

Secret Bar at Son & Garden is a sensible bar call in San Francisco when you want something that usually lands well.

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Morton's The Steakhouse

Morton's The Steakhouse suits a night out when you want steakhouse that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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8.4

Based on 2074 reviews

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Thai•San Francisco•$$$$