📍 Russian Hill, San Francisco
21 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 21 Restaurants
Quiet residential blocks on the Hyde Street cable-car line with an Italian osteria, a natural-wine bar, and a solid neighborhood coffee counter
Top 10 in Russian Hill
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Ssal
Ssal serves a single nightly tasting menu in a Polk Street dining room that opens onto its kitchen. The menu shifts constantly, joining Korean ingredients and techniques with moder...
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2
Nisei
Chef David Yoshimura's tasting-menu restaurant in Russian Hill draws on his experience as a second-generation Japanese American, the source of the name Nisei. The kitchen pairs Jap...
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3
Amarena
Amarena has held down a corner rowhouse at Larkin and Green since 2002, when Milan native Paolo Galli opened it as a neighborhood trattoria and still runs the kitchen today. White ...
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4
Bar Iris
The cocktail companion to Chef David Yoshimura's Michelin-starred Nisei, tucked into Polk Street's Russian Hill stretch. The bar program leans hard into Japanese spirits — single-c...
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5
Seven Hills
A small Italian restaurant on Hyde Street in Russian Hill, working a menu of fresh pasta and Italian plates in an intimate neighborhood room. It's a longtime local favorite along t...
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6
Piccolo Forno
Piccolo Forno is a small, no-reservations trattoria on Columbus Avenue at the edge of Russian Hill, turning out homemade pizzas and pasta from an open kitchen. The restaurant pours...
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7
Serafina
Serafina sits on Jones Street in Russian Hill, run by owner Maurizio Bruschi, who named the restaurant after his grandmother, who kept her own restaurant in Trastevere, Rome — wher...
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8
Saint Frank Coffee
Specialty coffee roastery started by Ritual alum Kevin Bohlin in 2013. The Polk Street cafe is the flagship; the company now operates a Mission Street roastery, sibling cafe St. Cl...
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9
Trattoria Contadina
Trattoria Contadina has worked Russian Hill's Mason Street as a family-run Italian trattoria for decades. The kitchen sticks to the classics — house pastas, veal, and red-sauce mai...
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Luisa's Restaurant Wine Bar Since 1959
Luisa's has run out of the same North Beach corner since 1959, these days under Luisa Hanson, who built the menu on family recipes she carried from Pompei, near Naples. The kitchen...
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All 21 Restaurants in Russian Hill
Fiddle Fig Cafe & Coffee
86
Abrazo
86
Frascati
85
Swensen's
84
The New Spot on Polk
84
Leopold's
84
Fueling Station Cafe
84
La Rocca's Corner
84
Graffeo Coffee Roasting Co.
84
Union Larder
83
Greens Sports Bar
81
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