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Restaurants reviewed by San Francisco Magazine (Showing 1-99 of 143)
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| +75% | Civic Center California and French | 
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| July 01, 2008 - In recent years, the big-name restaurant in the Hotel Palomar has been a roller coaster with a revolving door: lots... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Mission Mexican | ||
| May 08, 2008 - As celebrated as Texas beef barbecue and Carolina-style pulled pork is stateside, barbacoa de borrego is one of the... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Mission | ||
| May 08, 2008 - As celebrated as Texas beef barbecue and Carolina-style pulled pork is stateside, barbacoa de borrego is one of the... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Albany | ||
| April 03, 2008 - 3.5/4 stars - Washington Street in Yountville is wine country's version of Hollywood's Walk of Fame, a short promenade flanked by... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Western Addition | ||
| April 02, 2008 - Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and okra succotash are not the kind of dishes you expect from a cook raised in... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Nob Hill | ||
| April 02, 2008 - Bartenders borrow from chefs all the time. It may have started when someone stole a pickled onion from the salad... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Pacific Heights | ||
| April 02, 2008 - A mongrel neighborhood of light industry and historic houses, Dogpatch has a new breed of resident-modern loft... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Potrero American |
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| April 02, 2008 - A mongrel neighborhood of light industry and historic houses, Dogpatch has a new breed of resident-modern loft... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| SOMA | ||
| April 02, 2008 - At this sexed-up South of Market restaurant the sound system throbs with techno music and speakers in the men's room... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Pacific Heights Italian |
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| April 02, 2008 - It has grown fashionable-and not merely for doomsayers in sandwich boards-to point out parallels between our own... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| SOMA | ||
| April 02, 2008 - This month's Congressional Award for Culinary Courage goes to Jeremy Fox, former chef de cuisine at Manresa in Los... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Financial District | ||
| January 16, 2008 - Even by the spendy standards of Marin County, $2 million for an entrée qualifies as steep. But that's the price tag... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Oakland Tapas, French and Spanish |
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| People who go to bars looking for passion don't expect to find it in a glass. But the passion-fruit caipirinha at À... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +72% | Marina Italian and Pizza |
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| 3/4 stars - When chef Christophe Hille left last April, Nate Appleman, Hille’s right-hand man since the restaurant opened in... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +74% | SOMA Steakhouse, American and California |
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| 2/4 stars - There's no question that this is the place to be on game days, when the orange-and-black faithful stop in for a juicy... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +80% | Berkeley California, Greek and Mediterranean |
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| 2/4 stars - Cal professors and staffers must be thrilled to have a real restaurant right across from campus that's never overrun... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| SOMA | ||
| It's true what they say: Everything does taste better with bacon. Consider the oyster. I think of myself as a purist... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | Financial District Seafood and French |
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| 3/4 stars - Every once in a while, you eat a meal that's so good, you lose your train of thought and stop talking. All you want... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Oakland Coffee and Bakery | ||
| Fried-chicken sandwiches may be Bakesale Betty's claim to fame-the Oakland bakery sells almost 550 of them every day... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +79% | Nob Hill Seafood |
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| 2/4 stars - Commence the crudo craze and its namesake beer-and-wine bar where lovey-dovey couples forgo the same old seaweed-and... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Bernal Heights American and California |
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| 2/4 stars - What got its start as a notable neighborhood restaurant in 1999 has grown into a staple people cross town for on a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +60% | Nob Hill Seafood, California and Tapas |
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| 1/4 stars - If your idea of postwork fun is a stiff drinkâ€"or an even stiffer citrus-vodka oyster shooterâ€"then Blupointe... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | SOMA Vietnamese |
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| 2/4 stars - At this sexed-up South of Market restaurant the sound system throbs with techno music and speakers in the men’s... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | SOMA American and French |
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| 3/4 stars - Fourteen years and the party’s still going strong at what is one of San Francisco’s most celebrated restaurants... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +73% | Nob Hill American and Tapas |
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| 2/4 stars - Brick’s chef, Noah Tucker, is as clever as he is talented. His deconstructed Buffalo wings are reimagined as a row... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| Oakland | ||
| Tanya Holland always thought she'd open a bistro-a place that would draw on her experience cooking in France-but then... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +68% | Pacific Heights Japanese, Asian and French |
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| 1/4 stars - In a neighborhood where most of the buildings are utilitarian eyesores, Bushi-tei is an impressive exception... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +71% | Nob Hill French, American and Coffee |
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| 2/4 stars - Au revoir to the tired tourist stop that occupied this corner for far too long. Aqua Development Corporation's... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +74% | Pacific Heights California, Asian and International |
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| 2/4 stars - It’s been over 15 years since Café Kati opened on a quiet block of Sutter, and the restaurant’s cuisine conÃ... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +72% | Pacific Heights Cuban, Coffee and Latin American |
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| 2/4 stars - Chef Johnny Alamilla has infused some much-needed soul into Laurel Heights, transforming a corner space into a lively... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +60% | Pacific Heights Sandwiches/Subs, Eastern European and German |
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| 2/4 stars - After all their kvetching, New York transplants finally have a deli they can call home. Or at least call in to-go... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Nob Hill California, American and Mediterranean |
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| 3/4 stars - This Tendernob cubbyhole was once a coffee shop. But like its neighborhood, the tiny space has taken on the hues of... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +69% | Sausalito | |
| 2/4 stars - Big-name chef Chad Callahan jumped ship last September, and the upscale seafood shack closed its doors for two months... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +73% | Hayes Valley Wine Bar, Mediterranean and Tapas |
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| 1/4 stars - A man cannot survive on drink alone, but the idea is tempting. Cav presents a best-of list of vintages from 18... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Oakland Mediterranean | |
| 2/4 stars - The food is pretty good, and reasonably priced, at this chic tapas spot. So is the booze. Which is lucky, because you... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +73% | Berkeley Spanish and Tapas |
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| 2/4 stars - The food is pretty good, and reasonably priced, at this chic tapas spot. So is the booze. Which is lucky, because you... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +66% | Berkeley Indian, Tapas and Vegetarian |
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| 2/4 stars - Indian chaat have never sparked a frenzied trend on par with Mediterranean small plates. But they're worthy of one... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Oakland Pizza | |
| 2/4 stars - On a stretch of Telegraph Avenue that has morphed into something of a Gourmet Ghetto South, chef Charlie Hallowell... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | Berkeley California, French and Italian |
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| 3/4 stars - To say that Chez Panisse has a lot to live up to is putting it mildly. Every night, the iconic Berkeley Craftsman... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Mission French |
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| 3/4 stars - You may want to arm yourself with a French dictionary before dining at Chez Spencer. It could come in handy for... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +62% | Albany Chinese |
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| 2/4 stars - On the surface, this looks like any other Chinese restaurant on Solano, except it has a few more chandeliers. And a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Oakland French, American and California |
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| 3/4 stars - Rockridge residents could be called spoiled. Not only do they have the rigorously screened produce at Market Hall and... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | SOMA California, Greek and Mediterranean |
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| 2/4 stars - Loretta Keller tore up the carpet and tossed out the tablecloths at her bistro Bizou and rechristened the space... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | North Beach California, French and International |
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| 3/4 stars - Like it or not, Coi is a restaurant with a strong perspective. MRIs of fruits and vegetables hang on one wall of the... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Sausalito California, Italian and Tapas |
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| 2/4 stars - J.D. Stambaugh and Cornelia Mathis have culled a smart, focused wine list that features gems from around the globe... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | Nob Hill Tapas, International and Mediterranean |
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| 2/4 stars - Once you’ve primed your servers to ensure you make curtain time, you can forget everything except the immediate... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Mission Italian, California and Pizza |
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| 3/4 stars - Delfina is a slam dunk of a dinner choice. Craig Stoll's memorable Italian dishes to share or to hoard, served in a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +53% | Oakland California |
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| 1/4 stars - Not content with their command over the cappuccino, the owners of a popular Grand Avenue café have expanded into... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Oakland Italian and Pizza |
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| 2/4 stars - Every neighborhood should have a Dopo“a friendly, sophisticated, no-fuss spot where you can count on eating something... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +72% | Palo Alto Greek, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern |
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| 3/4 stars - A decade after Evvia brought its nouveau Greek cooking to the Peninsula, its mesquite-grilled lamb chops and whole... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +71% | SOMA Latin American | |
| 2/4 stars - Since South America is the purported birthplace of the chili pepper, it's fitting that Mochica, with its rust red... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +74% | Civic Center Southern & Soul and California |
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| 2/4 stars - Jay Foster knows what his followers want. They fawned over his Southern eats at BlueJay Café, and now they’re... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +72% | Sausalito Seafood |
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| 2/4 stars - Big-name chef Chad Callahan jumped ship last September, and the upscale seafood shack closed its doors for two months... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | Nob Hill French and Vegetarian |
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| 3/4 stars - After 20 years at the helm of San Francisco's Frenchy-French timeless treasure, chef Hubert Keller still packs a full... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Mission California, International and Mediterranean |
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| 2/4 stars - The tired dinner-and-a-movie date found new life when Foreign Cinema first appeared on grungy Mission Street back in... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +65% | Bernal Heights Southern & Soul |
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| The front porch at the Front Porch isn't a porch but a red concrete patio facing the hustle of 29th Street and... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +73% | Mission French |
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| 2/4 stars - The boys behind the bustling Belden Street restaurants B44 and Café Bastille have brought their blueprint across town... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Marina Vegetarian |
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| 2.5/4 stars - No self-respecting carnivore ventures into just any vegetarian restaurant. It must have an enticing, daily-changing... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | Marina Japanese and Sushi |
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| 1/4 stars - This glossy restaurant with pretty nylon lanterns and a pulsing sound track straddles the line between Japanese... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +67% | Noe Valley Italian, California and Pizza |
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| 2/4 stars - After you take a bite of pistachio-studded mortadella and snowy-white lardo, it's clear that chef Chris Cosentino... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Berkeley Indian, Kosher and Middle Eastern |
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| 2/4 stars - Zahèd Salimi keeps his kitchen in a constant simmer, infusing homey dishes from Pakistan with a fiery complexity... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +60% | Bernal Heights Latin American and Southern & Soul |
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| 1/4 stars - The service here is remarkably friendly, the ambience warm but still in the works, and the food, wellâ€Â¦hearty and... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +71% | SOMA American, Asian and Spanish |
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| 2/4 stars - True to its Shakespearean namesake, Jack Falstaff embodies the spirit of the young businessman eager to explore his... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Oakland California, American and French |
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| 2/4 stars - With flavor-of-the-month venues popping up all along Piedmont Avenue, Curt Clingman and Mary Jo Thoresen’s... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Palo Alto Indian |
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| 2/4 stars - Sometimes too many cooks can sweeten the paratha instead of spoiling it. Floyd Cardoz, chef at New York’s Tabla... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Menlo Park Japanese |
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| 3/4 stars - A world away from dragon rolls and bento boxes, Keiko and Toshi Sakuma’s peerless restaurant could change your... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +66% | Civic Center Japanese |
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| Much of the menu here speaks the international language of sushi and shabu-shabu, those boil-it-yourself hot pots... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +58% | Oakland Japanese | |
| 1/4 stars - Weary lies the head that wears the toque at a restaurant with such a wildly ranging menu. The crew behind Miss... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | Sunset Japanese, Asian and Sushi |
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| 2/4 stars - Lacy tempura and cornmeal-crusted calamari. Wakame salad and grilled asparagus. The inner Sunset's slickest Japanese... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +72% | Noe Valley Italian, Pizza and Seafood |
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| 1/4 stars - The name is Italian slang for belly, and here diners can fill theirs with seafood, salt, and olive oil, the holy... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +71% | Russian Hill French and California |
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| 3/4 stars - The harlequins had their day at Roland Passot's very fine French restaurant. But their happy, haunting faces have... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | San Rafael International | |
| 2/4 stars - A meal at Picco might start with sea bass seviche, and then shift to a rich torte of chard and ricotta, before... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Bernal Heights Indian and Vegetarian |
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| 2/4 stars - Bernal Heights at night has always had that romantic thing going on“it's quaint and quiet, and right uphill is one of... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +79% | Western Addition Pizza and Italian |
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| 2/4 stars - A new, casual-cool, candlelit pizza parlor“rumored to rival the East Bay's legendary Zachary's“has added twinkle to a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +77% | Russian Hill Mediterranean, Greek and Tapas |
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| 1/4 stars - Ben de Vries, most recently at Andalu, has left the hubbub of the Mission for the relative hush of Russian Hill. His... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +71% | Mission French, American and Italian |
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| 2/4 stars - Since its debut in 2000, Luna Park’s owners have opened a carbon copy branch in Los Angeles, and last spring they... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | San Mateo California, Seafood and Tapas |
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| 3/4 stars - Hooked on seafood. That's what you'll be after one bite of chef–co-owner May Lawrence's sea scallops and gnocchi in a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | Marina Mexican |
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| 2/4 stars - Squeezed between a gaggle of blond highlights and a pod of blazers and striped shirts, one can't help but wonder... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | Civic Center Vietnamese and Vegetarian |
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| 2/4 stars - The dining room's purple and green paint job is a little splashy, and the kitchen keeps pace with its refined, if not... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | Los Gatos Spanish, French and Seafood |
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| 3/4 stars - Like a star working off-Broadway, David Kinch commands a stage far from the spotlight and waits for the crowds to... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | Palo Alto Indian, California and French |
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| 1.5/4 - Like a kid who refuses to live up to potential, this Indian fusion restaurant reveals just enough flashes of genius... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Financial District American, French and Italian |
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| 2/4 stars - With its mustard-colored awning and broad outdoor dining area, the Ferry Building's MarketBar is a restaurant that... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Mission American |
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| 2/4 stars - Despite the name“an homage to a renegade cattleman“this cheerful place is less Old West than New Mission, with just... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +72% | Castro American |
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| 2/4 stars - The wraparound bar, spilling into the lounge, is packed with a gossiping, cruising crowd intent on being fabulous... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +70% | Haight Barbecue and American |
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| 2/4 stars - Bob Kantor's white oak–smoked brisket warrants a trek to this still-gritty stretch of Haight Street. So do his... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| SOMA Mexican |
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| What is it about dressed-up Mexican restaurants? No matter how elevated their intentions, they often wind up feeling... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +73% | SOMA Latin American and Vegetarian |
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| 2/4 stars - Since South America is the purported birthplace of the chili pepper, it's fitting that Mochica, with its rust red... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +74% | Financial District California and French |
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| 3/4 stars - Sean O'Brien's menu walks a fine line between upscale and easygoing, like a guy crashing a black-tie party without a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +73% | Marina Tapas |
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| 2/4 stars - Score one for wine drinkers in the beer-swilling Marina. Its newest bar pours tastes, glasses, and flights from a... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +80% | Western Addition California, American and Mediterranean |
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| 2/4 stars - After working the burners at Chow and Chez Nous, Laurence Jossel was ready for something new. So the chef set his... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +76% | Redwood City Seafood |
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| 2/4 stars - Sometimes you find things where you least expect them. Like a lobster shack next door to a Supercuts in a strip mall... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Oakland Italian, California and Mediterranean |
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| 3/4 stars - At this Rockridge institution, the emergence of porcini mushrooms on the menu is as clear a sign of winter as the... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +82% | Financial District Vietnamese | |
| 2/4 stars - Is it the hangar-sized room, the conversation-squelching din, or the pumped-up waitstaff in clingy black Ts that... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +75% | Alameda California |
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| 2/4 stars - The housing bubble eventually found its way to sleepy Alameda, and good Cal-Med food wasn't far behind. Casual-chic... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +74% | Milpitas Thai and Vietnamese | |
| 2/4 stars - If Americans deserve blame for inventing the strip mall, others merit credit for perfecting it. Consider, for example... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +67% | San Rafael California and International |
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| 2/4 stars - A meal at Picco might start with sea bass seviche, and then shift to a rich torte of chard and ricotta, before... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +77% | North Beach French |
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| 3/4 stars - A large shepherd's table is the centerpiece of this convivial restaurant, where a festive spirit is dressed up with... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +79% | Oakland Pizza, California and Italian |
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| 2/4 stars - On a stretch of Telegraph Avenue that has morphed into something of a Gourmet Ghetto South, chef Charlie Hallowell... full review at San Francisco Magazine | ||
| +78% | Mission Pizza, California and Italian |
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| 2/4 stars - The formula is familiar: seasonal ingredients spared tortured preparation, with the results delivered in a fashion... full review at San Francisco Magazine |
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