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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Niku Steakhouse
Japanese Steakhouse · SoMa
A Division Street wagyu temple -- one of the first restaurants in America with a full A5 Japanese wagyu butcher on-site. Multi-course beef tasting menus anchored by rare cuts sourced directly from Jap...
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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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Nari
Thai · Japantown
Pim Techamuanvivit's Thai restaurant inside Hotel Kabuki -- easily one of the most ambitious Thai kitchens in the country. The tasting menu is the move. Sister restaurant to Kin Khao downtown.
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Spruce
New American · Presidio Heights
The grown-up Presidio Heights dining room that San Francisco keeps coming back to for anniversaries, closings, and first dates that matter. Leather banquettes, an enormous wine program (one of the cit...