📍 Polk Gulch, San Francisco
26 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 26 Restaurants
Polk Street from California to Broadway: a standing-only crab counter, a prime-rib institution, and a dense run of cocktail bars and neighborhood pubs
Top 10 in Polk Gulch
1
Swan Oyster Depot
An 18-seat counter on Polk Street since 1912 — James Beard America's Classics Award winner that hasn't changed its formula in over a century. No website, no reservations, cash only...
94
2
House of Prime Rib
San Francisco's prime rib institution since 1949 — dim red leather, silver carving carts wheeled tableside, and a single-purpose menu that's barely changed in seven decades. Four c...
92
3
The Golden Yak
The Golden Yak opened on Polk Street in 2026 as a women-led, family-run Nepali-Indian kitchen — three generations working the same recipes, by the family's own account, with spice ...
91
4
Ora Wine Bar
Ora Wine Bar opened on Polk Street in Polk Gulch after what tablehopper's Marcia Gagliardi described as a long-awaited arrival for the stretch, and it built its identity around a w...
91
5
Mashita Galbi Jjim
Mashita Galbi Jjim is a Polk Gulch specialist built around a single showpiece: galbi jjim, beef short ribs braised until they surrender, plated over rice-cake tteokbokki and finish...
90
6
Karam
Karam is a family-owned, halal Mediterranean counter at 1725 Polk Street in Polk Gulch, built around Lebanese and broader Arabic cooking. The menu runs through neighborhood-shawarm...
88
7
Bob's Donuts
Bob's Donuts has been a Polk Street fixture since opening as a family business in 1960, one of the few San Francisco donut shops still making everything from scratch by hand. Ronal...
86
8
Woods Polk Station
Woods Polk Station is one outpost of Woods Beer & Wine Co., a small Bay Area family of brewpubs and bars that also includes Woods Cerveceria, Woods Cole Valley, Woods Outbound,...
86
9
Brenda's French Soul Food
Brenda's French Soul Food sits on Polk Street in Polk Gulch, where New Orleans cooking meets San Francisco. The kitchen blends French and Creole soul-food traditions, the kind of m...
84
10
Mymy Coffee Shop
Mymy is a small, colorful breakfast-and-brunch counter on California Street in Polk Gulch, built around a menu of eggs benedict, pancakes, and french toast alongside mimosas. The d...
84
All 26 Restaurants in Polk Gulch
Robberbaron
84
Cresta's Twenty Two Eleven Club
84
Sorella
83
Juniper
83
Macondray
82
Amelie
81
Harper & Rye
80
Mezcalito
80
The Buccaneer
78
Hi-Lo Club
74
Polkcha
73
Kozy Kar
72
McTeague's Saloon
71
Lush Lounge
70
Shanghai Kelly's
69
R Bar
68
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