Best Restaurants for Outdoor Dining in Russian Hill

Duck, salad, bolognese pasta were great Hamburger was horrible more like a giant meatball with weird pesto mayo Warm goat cheese appetizer was lackluster $9 bread that was ice cold Cocktails are nice

A wonderful meal! The only thing that isn’t great at Waterbar is their choice of music which does NOT fit the dining experience at all!!

Very nice restaurant. Friendly owner server. Highly recommended

The Habourview beef with lemon and the shrimp toasts are excellent. Very unusual.

The food quality at Octavia is very high. The chefs really know what they’re doing. We had a pre-fixe menu for Christmas Eve dinner and they accommodated dietary restrictions with advanced notice. They actually called a few days in advance of the reservation to confirm the dietary restrictions which was really nice. We had 9 courses I think and they were all delicious. My favorites were the soup and the pasta dishes. The service was also very good, the servers were very attending and accommodating. There was one dish I didn’t eat much of because it had radicchio in it which I don’t like, and our server offered to have the kitchen make me a replacement dish with a different lettuce instead. The only negative of Octavia is that it feels very cramped. The space is small and they squeeze in a lot of tables so you’re sitting basically on top of other diners and it’s a little awkward. Everything else was great though. I would definitely recommend Octavia as a good place for special occasions or bringing out of town visitors.