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Where To Have A Unique Dining Experience In SF
A funhouse-like spot that turns trash into food, a fine dining place that cooks solely over an open flame, and more SF restaurants you won’t forget any time soon.
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Saluhall
Saluhall is a food hall in the IKEA building that works for an extended lunch break, as long as you stick to the second floor.
Where To Have A Unique Dining Experience In SF
A funhouse-like spot that turns trash into food, a fine dining place that cooks solely over an open flame, and more SF restaurants you won’t forget any time soon.
Noodle In A Haystack
Noodle In A Haystack serves a phenomenal ramen-inspired tasting menu in the Richmond. There’s no other place like it in the city.
Kiln
Kiln is a seafood-focused tasting menu in Hayes Valley that gives you sensory overload in the best way possible.
Hog Island Oyster Co.
Hog Island Oyster Co. is an excellent seafood spot at the Ferry Building with sweeping views of the Bay Bridge.
Poc-Chuc Restaurant
Poc-Chuc in the Mission is a Yucatecan spot that’s a full-on party with karaoke, a dance floor, and a live DJ most nights.
Old Skool Cafe
Old Skool Cafe is a ‘20s-inspired jazz supper club and soul food restaurant that doubles as a violence prevention program.
Lazy Bear
Lazy Bear is a fine dining tasting menu spot that leans hard into an outdoorsy vintage camp theme—it makes dinner at this Mission restaurant a lot of fun.
State Bird Provisions
We could eat at State Bird Provisions five nights in a row and never get bored—that’s because the Fillmore spot makes the most creative small plates in the city.
The Rotunda
The Rotunda at Neiman Marcus in Union Square is one of the city’s most unique dining spots—sit under a stunning stained glass ceiling, and drink afternoon tea or champagne.
Osito
Osito in the Mission is the only restaurant in SF with a fine dining menu that’s prepared entirely over a live fire.
Shuggie's
Shuggie's uses blemished and surplus produce and meat off-cuts in their pizzas to reduce food waste. Not every dish is a hit, but this Mission spot with the funhouse-like dining room is a conversation starter.
Bix
Bix is an old-school American restaurant in Jackson Square that feels like time-traveling back to a 1930s nightclub.
Handroll Project
The temaki-focused spot in the Mission is an exciting and laidback spinoff from the Ju-Ni people, with the same high-quality fish for about half the cost.
Kaiyō Rooftop
Kaiyō Rooftop is a trendy SoMa rooftop bar with views of downtown, lots of cocktails, and great Peruvian-Japanese dishes if you get hungry.
Californios
A meal at Californios, a Mexican fine dining restaurant in SoMa, is less of a dinner and more of a spectacular production.
Mr. Pollo
Mr. Pollo is a tiny tasting menu restaurant in the Mission unlike anything else in the city.
Emilia’s Pizza
Emilia’s is the best pizza in the Bay Area. Getting it is a huge pain in the ass. But it is 100% worth it.
Suppenküche
Suppenküche has San Francisco's best German food on a corner in Hayes Valley. Hope you're ready for some Jägerschnitzel.
Empress By Boon
Empress by Boon is an upscale Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown that feels like an exclusive club you actually want to go to.
House Of Prime Rib
House of Prime Rib in Nob Hill is where to go when you want a lot of meat and large bottles of wine.
