📍 Castro, San Francisco

Chef Melissa Perello's Michelin-starred Castro hideaway celebrates seasonal California cuisine with regional farm ingredients. Housemade sourdough arrives warm with Straus butter; ...

Billed as a 'Polynesian-Noir Adventure', Last Rites is built inside a fictional crashed 1960s airplane fuselage — actual airplane seats serve as bar chairs, banyan-tree roots crawl...

A Castro institution since 1977, operated by Roseann Grimm for its entire lifespan. Fresh raw oysters, Dungeness crab, and housemade cioppino at a simple counter — no website, no r...

Santa Cruz roaster's SF cafe on the corner of Church and Market above the Church Muni station, in the Castro near Mission Dolores. The flagship Streetlevel blend (Guatemala, Colomb...

A Castro cornerstone since 1935 and a landmark in LGBTQ+ history: when the bar installed its then-radical floor-to-ceiling windows in 1972, it made queer life visible on the street...

The Castro gay sports bar — twenty-plus flat screens, a Market Street crowd that doesn't choose between cheering and cruising, and a bar-food menu of corn dogs, cauliflower sticks ...

A literary-themed cocktail bar on Market Street where the craft drinks are as considered as the aesthetic is understated. The Leather Bound Book (rye, bourbon, cardamaro, absinthe,...

The Castro's living room: California comfort food on a heated patio one block off Noe. Potato pizzas with nduja and fingerings, a proper Starbelly Manhattan, brunch every weekend —...

Castro arcade bar with actual food, actual cocktails, and a floor split between retro cabinets and newer machines under neon worth photographing. The Detour pulls the LGBTQ+ neighb...

A WWII-themed cocktail bar at Church and Market in Duboce Triangle, with a whiskey list deep enough to justify lingering and a cocktail program that runs from PX Old Fashioneds to ...