Chef Melissa Perello's Michelin-starred Castro hideaway celebrates seasonal California cuisine with regional farm ingredients. Housemade sourdough arrives warm with Straus butter; the daily-changing m...
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Last Rites
Tiki Bar · Castro
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 across the ceiling,...
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Anchor Oyster Bar
Seafood · Castro
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 reservations, no pret...
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Firefly
American · Noe Valley
Noe Valley's most enduring neighborhood restaurant: LGBTQ-owned, seasonal, and quietly excellent for over two decades. Chef Brad Levy's menu ranges from fried heritage chicken with mashed potatoes and...
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Twin Peaks Tavern
Bar · Castro
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 at a time when gay ...
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Blackbird Bar
Cocktails · Castro
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, tobacco bitters) an...
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Starbelly
American · Castro
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 — the kind of casual ...