Michael & Lindsay Tusk's Jackson Square flagship, widely considered one of America's finest tasting menus. A hushed, chandelier-lit dining room where every course is a small theater piece -- table...
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Lazy Bear
Modern American Tasting Menu · Mission
David Barzelay's 'dinner party' restaurant -- communal tables of strangers, a welcome drink upstairs, then a multi-course American tasting menu served with a printed menu as takeaway. Started as an un...
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Birdsong
New American Tasting Menu · SoMa
Chris Bleidorn's Pacific Northwest-inflected tasting menu inside a stripped-back SoMa room anchored by a smoldering hearth. Ingredients are foraged, pickled, smoked, and aged with obsessive patience -...
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Angler
Seafood Hearth · Embarcadero
Joshua Skenes' Embarcadero seafood shrine -- an open hearth, a wall of taxidermy, and a view of the Bay Bridge. Wood-fired everything: radicchio in beef fat, clams in butter, whole fish with bones tha...
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Kokkari Estiatorio
Greek · Jackson Square
The standard by which every Greek taverna in America gets measured. A roaring fireplace in the main room, whole branzino butterflied tableside, lamb chops with lemon and oregano that have been on the ...
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Bar Crenn
French Wine Bar · Pacific Heights
Dominique Crenn's Fillmore wine bar, next door to her three-star Atelier Crenn. An intimate room of velvet seating, candlelight, and an encyclopedic wine program -- this is where you go when Atelier i...
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Sorrel
Italian · Laurel Heights
Alexander Hong's Laurel Heights Italian -- an airy corner room with an open kitchen and a pasta-focused menu that reads like a love letter to regional Italy. The tasting menu is one of the best deals ...
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The Progress
New American Tasting Menu · Western Addition
Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski's Fillmore Street restaurant -- a multi-course, family-style tasting menu served in a soaring post-industrial room next door to State Bird Provisions. Seasonal Calif...
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Cotogna
Italian · Jackson Square
Michael Tusk's casual Italian sister to Quince, sharing a wall and a kitchen philosophy. Wood-fired pizzas, hand-rolled pastas, and a rotisserie that never stops turning -- all at a price that doesn't...
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Rintaro
Japanese Izakaya · Mission
Sylvan Mishima Brackett's Mission izakaya -- a cedar-wrapped room where every element feels hand-built by a master craftsman. Housemade udon, yakitori from a dedicated robata, and some of the most tho...