San Francisco Restaurants
★ Eat where San Franciscans eat ★
✭ Save As You Savor San Francisco ✭
Fact: San Francisco is America’s #1 city to visit.
Fact: San Francisco's 3,489 restaurants are a big reason it's #1.
Fact: Most visitors never try the best of them.
This is your guide to the best.
Not the tourist traps, not the money flushers — these are the restaurants where San Franciscans, like us, eat.
Many are an easy stroll from the Moscone Center. And many more are well outside what Garrison Keillor calls “San Francisco’s Tourist Reservation.”
Look for our personal faves under Personal Faves. And, now, Ask the Concierge. Chief concierge David Gunderman reveals the places he loves best.
We've even thrown in — no extra charge — The San Francisco Diet. It allows you to eat everything on the menu your heart desires — without putting on pounds.
✭ About Jules and Effin Older ✭
We're travel & food journalists. We've reviewed and photographed restaurants from Italy to Iceland, New England to New Zealand, for magazines, newspapers, public radio and TV.
We're funny, opinionated and incorruptible.
We've won beaucoup awards from our peers.
We love to eat.
And we worship at the temple of great value.
★ About the Authors ★
Effin was raised on meat & taters, fresh corn & raw milk in northern Vermont.
Jules was raised on crabs & clams, fried chicken & cold watermelon in Baltimore.
We've lived in New York & New Zealand, a Vermont village of 200 & now, the center of San Francisco.
We love to eat, to write, to shoot, and now to make videos. And we adore outstanding value.
This app brings it all together.
★ About Sutro Media ★
This guide is published in partnership with Sutro Media. By enabling local writers to share their expertise on mobile phones, Sutro Media is making it easier and more fun to explore the world!
If you have any problems, comments, or suggestions for improvement, we'd love to hear from you - letusknow@sutromedia.com
What's new
Ah, there is is so much new here. New restaurants, of course. New photos, natch. Also, new entries on: parking in SF, gluten-free restaurants, our leading food critic Michael Bauer, new entries from Ask the Concierge, newly expanded horizons in Marin, Mendocino and Napa. And now, videos — lots of new videos — including one from the SF Fancy Food Show.
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