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37 fine dining spots in San Francisco, scored and ranked for 2026.

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Top 10 Fine Dining Spots

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Quince
Italian Tasting Menu · Jackson Square · Michelin 3 Stars (2025)
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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Atelier Crenn
Fine Dining · Cow Hollow · Michelin 3 Stars (2025) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#44)
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...
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Benu
Fine Dining · SoMa · Michelin 3 Stars (2025) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#33)
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,...
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Lazy Bear
Modern American Tasting Menu · Mission · Michelin 2 Stars (2025)
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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Acquerello
Italian · Nob Hill
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...
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Saison
Fine Dining · SoMa · Michelin 2 Stars (2025) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 (#22)
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...
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Mister Jiu's
Modern Chinese / Cantonese · Chinatown · Michelin 1 Star (2025)
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 &...
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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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All 37 Fine Dining Spots in San Francisco

Sons & Daughters
Fine Dining · Mission
94
Kokkari Estiatorio
Greek · Jackson Square
93
Bar Crenn
French Wine Bar · Pacific Heights
93
Sorrel
Italian · Laurel Heights
93
The Progress
New American Tasting Menu · Western Addition
93
Gary Danko
Fine Dining · Fisherman's Wharf
93
State Bird Provisions
American · Fillmore
93
Nari
Thai · Japantown
92
Frances
California · Castro
92
Octavia
California · Pacific Heights
92
7 Adams
American · Fillmore
92
Spruce
New American · Presidio Heights
91
Boulevard
New American · Embarcadero
91
La Mar Cebicheria
Peruvian · Embarcadero
91
Rich Table
California · Hayes Valley
91
SPQR
Italian · Fillmore
91
Aziza
Moroccan · Inner Richmond
91
Ernest
New American Live-Fire · Mission
90
Ama by Brad Kilgore
Italian-Japanese (Itameshi) · Jackson Square
89
Prospect
New American · Rincon Hill
89
Pabu Izakaya
Japanese · Financial District
89
Waterbar
Seafood · Embarcadero
88
Harris' Restaurant
Steakhouse · Pacific Heights
88
Bourbon Steak
Steakhouse · Union Square
88
Starlite
Cocktail Bar · Union Square
87
The Vault Steakhouse
Steakhouse · Financial District
85
International Smoke
American · SoMa
82
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