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4.4
Awesome(196)
Price: Expensive
• Mexican • Downtown / Union Square
Booked 8 times today
Matador – San Francisco is a restaurant serving authentic Mexican cuisine. It offers delivery and takeout, and also provides catering services. The restaurant is recommended for lunch and dinner, and has garage and street parking. It is a good place for groups, and the attire and ambiance inside is casual. Matador – San Francisco offers full alcohol bar and the noise level during peak hours is average. The restaurant offers free WI-FI access and has outdoor seating as well.The menu at Matador – San Francisco includes classic Mexican dishes such as carnitas tacos, guacamole, mezcal with pineapple syrup and lemon, house salad with shrimp, salsa, and pozole. The waiting staff is friendly, courteous, and fast in taking orders and serving food.
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4.6
Exceptional(10938)
Price: Expensive
• Seafood • Financial District / Embarcadero
Booked 122 times today
Waterbar is a seafood-centric restaurant located on the waterfront with spectacular panoramic views of the bay and city skyline, exceptional design, and a menu of the freshest sustainable fish and seafood. Featuring stunning outdoor (dog-friendly) dining on the waterfront patio, a relaxed atmosphere and floor-to-ceiling circular aquariums filled with an eye-catching array of fish and marine life from the Pacific Ocean. Waterbar is not to be missed.
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4.7
Exceptional(8836)
Price: Expensive
• Californian • Mission District
Booked 161 times today
Foreign Cinema is a one of a kind, nationally acclaimed restaurant combining independent films with California-Mediterranean cooking. Enjoy an airy yet chic setting, complete with indoor dining room with a fireplace, outdoor courtyard with 35mm film screening starting at dusk, mezzanine, gallery curated by Modernism West & full bar in the main dining room. Foreign Cinema has something for everyone including their DJ/live music bar, Laszlo. Enjoy special happy hours, uniquely craft cocktails, zero proof selections, full Foreign Cinema dinner menu, and lively music to end your evening.We are currently booking for Outdoor Patio & Indoor/Standard seating 60 days in advance. A ‘standard seating’ reservation is indoor dining. Reservations for 10+ may be booked through private dining department - contact janine@foreigncinema.com for more information.
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4.7
Exceptional(3545)
Price: Expensive
• Californian • North Panhandle / USF
Booked 120 times today
Nopa is a San Francisco gathering place north of the Panhandle, serving urban rustic food and specializing in organic wood-fired cuisine. We serve simple dishes created with seasonal ingredients sourced from local farms and purveyors.
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4.7
Exceptional(2624)
Price: Very Expensive
• Contemporary American • Pacific Heights
Booked 42 times today
Octavia is the sister restaurant of Frances, helmed by award-winning Chef Owner Melissa Perello. Octavia serves dinner five nights a week in an elegant and relaxed neighborhood setting. Beautifully defined flavors and seasonally driven cuisine are the cornerstones of Octavia’s menu. Leveraging longstanding relationships with the region’s top purveyors and farms, Octavia's daily evolving selections spotlight Chef Perello's commitment to sustainability and the Bay Area’s wealth of agricultural resources.
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4.3
Awesome(838)
Price: Moderate
• Unspecified • Downtown / Union Square
Booked 2 times today
Our bar-centric concept plays host to a vivid social scene and creative craft cocktail menu with an emphasis on rare brown spirits. In a prime location perched five floors above the streets of the developing high-tech start-up epicenter in SOMA, Dirty Habit serves as an intimate hideaway for locals seeking inventive offerings and a sociable dining atmosphere, both inside the restaurant and on the spacious, heated outdoor dining room.
A photo of La Mar Cocina Peruana San Francisco restaurant
4.7
Exceptional(8514)
Price: Expensive
• Peruvian • Financial District / Embarcadero
Booked 104 times today
Inspired by the thousands of cebicherias found throughout Peru, La Mar Cebicheri­a Peruana, was created as an attempt to globalize and enshrine one of the best guarded treasures of Peruvian cuisine: cebiche, Peruvian seafood and the scenery created to enjoy them, the Peruvian style cebicheria.
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4.7
Exceptional(3411)
Price: Expensive
• Italian • SOMA
Booked 34 times today
54 Mint is a hidden gem in the heart of downtown San Francisco across from the old US Mint Building. We offer authentic Roman cuisine prepared only with fresh and seasonal ingredients. Our pastas, bread and desserts are made fresh in house on a daily basis. Our bar offers an extended variety of Italian wines, craft cocktails and high-end imported and local spirits.
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4.2
Awesome(686)
Price: Expensive
• Californian • Financial District / Embarcadero
Booked 14 times today
Hi Neighbor!Join us at our hidden downtown oasis with year a round tented and heated outdoor dining room located on the Plaza Level of the 555 California St. Building. The Vault Garden offers an all day menu highlighting American cuisine. The Vault Garden also offers a spacious and comfortable lounge and traditional dining under the soaring high rises.We provide a rain resistant, temperature controlled outdoor dining room for all of our guests. Blankets are available upon request should you be chilly.
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4.6
Exceptional(467)
Price: Expensive
• American • Noe Valley
Booked 3 times today
Mr. Digbys Bar and Restaurant is the new neighborhood spot in Noe Valley, SF! Join us for elevated American comfort food and classic cocktails in a comfortable, polished setting. We offer dog-friendly sidewalk and parklet seating, bar seating and standard seating. Chronicle rated "Best Food of the Week" 2021.

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  • Miguel
    Caribbean •3 reviews
    5.0
    Dined 1 day ago
    One of the best Dinning Experiences I’ve had. Their service and attention are TOP NOTCH! Every single plate we had was just incredible! Lawrence, the Chef and Owner also gave us an appetizer to try and gave my partner some cookies to take away. Highly recommended!
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    Nopa - San FranciscoPrice: Expensive• Californian• North Panhandle / USF
    4.7
  • WarrenVIP
    San Francisco Bay Area •39 reviews
    4.0
    Dined 2 days ago
    Great spot to have good tacos and drinks quaint and delicious. Nice neighborhood spot.
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    Matador - San FranciscoPrice: Expensive• Mexican• Downtown / Union Square
    4.4
  • PaulVIP
    Los Angeles •24 reviews
    5.0
    Dined 3 days ago
    Another incredible experience! The service and food were outstanding, with breathtaking views across the Bay Bridge too! Highly recommend!
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    WaterbarPrice: Expensive• Seafood• Financial District / Embarcadero
    4.6
  • Corey
    San Francisco Bay Area •9 reviews
    5.0
    Dined 3 days ago
    We always enjoy Foreign Cinema. They are great about accommodating my wheelchair, the food is fantastic, and the service is always excellent. We love it.
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    Foreign CinemaPrice: Expensive• Californian• Mission District
    4.7
  • Audrey
    San Francisco Bay Area •4 reviews
    5.0
    Dined on Dec 25, 2024
    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.
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    OctaviaPrice: Very Expensive• Contemporary American• Pacific Heights
    4.7
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