Restaurants

1015 Folsom

One of San Francisco’s largest dance-music nightclubs, on Folsom in SoMa.

A16

Marina Neapolitan pizza restaurant on Chestnut Street, open since 2004. VPN-certified pizza and Southern Italian cooking.

Arsicault Bakery

Bon Appétit named it the Best New Bakery in America. Best Croissant in the country.

Bix

A two-story Art Deco supper club in Jackson Square with live jazz nightly.

Boom Boom Room

A Fillmore blues, funk, and soul club with live music most nights.

Bourbon & Branch

A Tenderloin speakeasy in a building that hid a real Prohibition-era bar.

Buena Vista Cafe

The bar that brought Irish coffee to America, perfected here in 1952.

Burma Superstar

Tea leaf salad mixed tableside is the dish the restaurant is best known for.

Cavaña

A 17th-floor Latin American cocktail bar with skyline views in Mission Bay.

Charmaine’s

A rooftop bar 120 feet above Market Street with fire pits and skyline views.

Comstock Saloon

A restored 1907 Barbary Coast saloon with a pre-Prohibition cocktail list.

Dirty Habit

A 5th-floor downtown bar with over 640 whiskeys and a heated patio.

DNA Lounge

A SoMa club going since 1985, owned by Netscape engineer Jamie Zawinski.

Elixir

A Mission corner saloon on a site that’s held a bar since 1858.

Foreign Cinema

Films from the 1960s and 1970s projected on the courtyard wall.

Good Mong Kok Bakery

Chinatown bakery on Stockton Street, open since 1977. Steamed char siu bao (barbecue pork buns) is the signature; cash only and fast counter service.

Grubstake

If you’re looking for a late night diner experience.

Hon’s Wun-Tun House

Hong Kong-style wonton noodle soup with hand-wrapped wontons and clean broth. So Tasty!

House of Nanking

Two-time Chopped champion on Food Network. The family was the subject of the docuseries Chef Dynasty: House of Fang

House of Shields

A 1908 SoMa saloon with no clocks, where Warren Harding reportedly had his last drink.

Jones

A tropical cocktail bar in the Tendernob with a large outdoor patio.

La Taqueria

Voted Best Burrito in USA. James Beard America’s Classics Award winner.

Latin American Club

A Mission dive since the 1940s, known for strong margaritas under paper lanterns.

Liguria Bakery

Liguria Bakery makes one thing: focaccia bread since 1911.

Local Edition

A speakeasy in the basement of the old San Francisco Examiner, among the printing presses.

Lone Palm

A candlelit Mission cocktail bar with a pre-Prohibition drink list.

Mister Jiu’s

Michelin star Chinese restaurant and James Beard Best Chef

Monarch

A two-level SoMa club with a basement Void sound system voted Best in the city.

Mosto Bar

Mosto Bar SF

A Valencia Street agave bar with over 300 tequilas and mezcals.

Old Ship Saloon

A Jackson Square saloon on a Barbary Coast site dating to the 1850s.

Pop’s Bar

A Mission dive on 24th and York, a Legacy Business with block history back to 1937.

Rise Over Run

A glass-ceilinged rooftop solarium bar near Union Square.

Sam’s Burgers

Anthony Bourdain ate here on The Layover and called it “top three in the world.” plus It’s great for late night food after the bar.

Scoma’s

Seafood goes from dock to kitchen with no middleman.

Sotto Mare

North Beach seafood counter on Green Street serving cioppino, fresh oysters, and Dungeness crab in a 30-seat dining room. No reservations for parties of two; parties of three or more can book.

Tadich Grill

Operating since 1849, widely cited as California’s oldest restaurant.

The Beehive

A 1960s-styled Mission cocktail bar with a negroni list and a fondue menu.

The Detour

A Castro arcade bar with about 30 free-to-play cabinets and pinball.

The Knockout

A Mission dive with punk and garage DJs, live bands, bingo, and burlesque.

The Mix

A Castro dive on 18th with a pool table and a back smoke patio.

The Rotunda

Lunch and afternoon tea under a 1909 stained-glass dome.

The Saloon

San Francisco’s oldest bar, on Grant Avenue since 1861, with live blues nightly.

Tonga Room

A 1945 tiki bar in the Fairmont basement with an indoor lagoon and rainstorms.

Tony’s Pizza Napoletana

Tony Gemignani is a 13-time World Pizza Champion and the first American to win the World Pizza Cup in Naples (2007).

Toronado

A Lower Haight beer bar since 1987, with around 50 taps of Belgian and craft.

Trick Dog

A Mission cocktail bar whose menu changes theme twice a year. Two-time James Beard finalist.

True Laurel

A James Beard-recognized Mission cocktail bar from the Lazy Bear team.

Uji Time Dessert

First shop in the Bay Area to serve taiyaki ice cream in fish-shaped cones baked to order. The Fish Cone is the house specialty.

Valencia Room

A two-floor Mission dance club in the former Elbo Room space.

View Lounge

A 39th-floor hotel bar with picture windows over Yerba Buena and the skyline.

Zeitgeist

A Mission beer bar with a huge gravel back patio and around 50 taps.