🍽️ Best Fine Dining in San Francisco
37 fine dining spots in San Francisco, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Fine Dining Spots
1
Quince
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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2
Atelier Crenn
Three Michelin stars. Chef Dominique Crenn — the first female chef in the US to earn two Michelin stars, then three — serves a poetic, pescatarian-forward tasting menu in San Francisco's most artistic...
98
3
Benu
San Francisco's first three-Michelin-star restaurant. Chef Corey Lee's personal tasting menu opens with a thousand-year-old quail egg and builds through a deeply Korean-inflected lens: soup dumplings,...
98
4
Lazy Bear
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...
96
5
Birdsong
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 -...
96
6
Acquerello
Two-Michelin-starred Italian fine dining since 1989 — San Francisco's oldest continuously Michelin-starred restaurant. Chef-owner Suzette Gresham's multi-course compositions honor Piemontese tradition...
95
7
Saison
Two-Michelin-starred open wood-fire tasting menu in SoMa where Chef Richard Lee sends nearly every dish through live flame. Ember-grilled trout with crackling skin, sea urchin with charred sourdough a...
95
8
Mister Jiu's
Brandon Jew's modern Chinese tasting room above a 1880s Chinatown banquet hall on Waverly Place. Michelin 1-star and James Beard Best Chef: California (2024 winner). The roasted whole duck, salt &...
95
9
Angler
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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10
Niku Steakhouse
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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All 37 Fine Dining Spots in San Francisco
Sons & Daughters
94
Kokkari Estiatorio
93
Bar Crenn
93
Sorrel
93
The Progress
93
Gary Danko
93
State Bird Provisions
93
Nari
92
Frances
92
Octavia
92
7 Adams
92
Spruce
91
Boulevard
91
La Mar Cebicheria
91
Rich Table
91
SPQR
91
Aziza
91
Ernest
90
Ama by Brad Kilgore
89
Prospect
89
Pabu Izakaya
89
Waterbar
88
Harris' Restaurant
88
Bourbon Steak
88
Starlite
87
The Vault Steakhouse
85
International Smoke
82
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