📍 The Castro, San Francisco
19 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 19 Restaurants
The heart of LGBTQ nightlife — gay bars, diners, coffeehouses, and a global spread of small kitchens.
Top 10 in The Castro
1
Ka Kai Northern Thai
Ka Kai brought Northern Thai cooking to the Castro from a team with roots at Farmhouse Kitchen, arriving at a moment when San Francisco's Thai scene has gotten more specific about ...
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2
Castro Indian Restaurant & Bar
Castro Indian Restaurant & Bar opened in 2023 on Castro Street, bringing a modern take on Indian-American cooking to a strip better known for bars than sit-down dining. The kit...
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3
Potto
Potto brought Japanese nabe, hot pot, culture to a small Japandi-style room on Sanchez Street in the Castro, built around the idea of a shared pot rather than individual plates. Th...
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4
Bar49
Bar49 opened in June 2024 at 2295 Market Street, in a space that had cycled through operators for years as the former Bagdad Café. It's the second Castro bar from Colm O'Brien, who...
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5
Cafe de Casa
Cafe de Casa has served Brazilian food in the Bay Area for more than a decade, with this location anchoring 17th Street in the Castro alongside sister spots at Fisherman's Wharf an...
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6
Tanglad
Tanglad takes its name from the Vietnamese word for lemongrass, run as a family business serving Vietnamese street food out of a counter-service space on Castro Street. The garlic ...
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7
Castro Coffee Company
Castro Coffee Company has operated in the same Castro Street storefront for decades, tracing back to an earlier identity as The Castro Cheesery under the same ownership before the ...
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8
Last Call Bar
Last Call Bar has operated at 3988 18th Street, at the corner of Noe, since 1971, though not always under this name. It opened as Mistake, became the Men's Room in 1977 under owner...
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9
Poesia Café
Poesia Café opened in the Castro in August 2022, a partnership between pastry chef Giovanni Liguoro and Francesco D'Ippolito, who also owns Poesia Osteria Italiana. Liguoro is a se...
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10
Orphan Andy's
Orphan Andy's has anchored the gateway to the Castro at Jane Warner Plaza, next to the Twin Peaks Bar, since 1977. Owner Dennis Zieball had run Andy's Donuts nearby starting in 197...
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All 19 Restaurants in The Castro
Philz Coffee
84
Poesia Osteria Italiana
84
Fable
82
Cafe Mystique
82
The Sausage Factory
82
The Cove on Castro
82
Moby Dick
82
Copper Bar Kitchen & Microbrewery
82
Blind Butcher
80
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