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Covering a wide swath of San Francisco, including the San Francisco Giant's AT&T Park, the Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art and the Folsom Street club scene all in one sweep, South of Market has some of San Francisco's finest destination restaurants and hippest under the radar dining and nightlife hot spots. Chez Spencer and Sushi Groove South (unmarked from the street) deliver undercover chic in an industrial, unassuming section of SOMA. Some of San Francisco's finest restaurants, like Town Hall for American cuisine done with a rustic, gourmet flair or sister restaurants, Lulu and Anzu, are within walking distance from the Moscone Center and the MOMA. Around the ballpark, SOMA offers excellent spots for house-brewed beers and hamburgers as easily as martinis and gourmet noshes.
82 14th St. 94103. South of Market
A hidden treasure, South of Market—presenting elegant French cuisine with cozy indoor and outdoor seating!
Chez Spencer epitomizes San Francisco's French bistro phenomena. Its heated patio, flowering garden, wood burning oven, and tucked away location make it a real charmer. Chez Spencer is named after Chef Laurent Katgely's son and he does him proud with sophisticated and stylish French-inspired fare.
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448 Brannan Street, San Francisco CA 94107; Tel. 1.877.447.3196
SOMA's Top Destination: Open Kitchen, Multilevel Dining,
Active Bar with Wine Galore & Live Entertainment Nightly
Whether it's for business dining, a celebratory dinner, casual Friday lunch, late-night snack, or just a fun night out, Bacar offers a warehouse full of wine and culinary adventures. This vibrant South of Market (SoMa) restaurant features Northern California cuisine in a welcoming atmosphere.
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24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco CA 94107
An all American steak and chop house right at the AT&T Park baseball stadium. It features organic veggies and grass-fed, planet-friendly beef without annoying hormones and antibiotics. In addition to happy cows, entrees include lamb, pork, duck and catch of the day, served with all-American side dishes like baked potatoes, onion rings, macaroni and cheese, and creamed spinach. Appetizers include clams, oysters and cracked crab. Among the bar specialties: regional wines, single malt scotches, cognacs and armagnacs.
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689 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105
Celebrated Napa Valley chef Hiro Sone opened San Francisco's Ame restaurant in the St. Regis Hotel to great acclaim. Ame's seasonal menu reflects a refined blending of local ingredients with the flavors of southern France and northern Italy, filtered through Hiro's Japanese culinary sensibilities. The food is as beautiful as the setting.
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68 Fourth Street, San Francisco CA 94103
Annabelle's Bar and Bistro is a classic San Francisco restaurant nestled between Union Square, Sony Metreon and Yerba Buena Gardens. The warm dining room dates back to the early 1900s and features spacious high ceilings and ornate columns. Annabelle's has a full bar and a relaxed and lively atmosphere, complete with white linens and antique tile floors, and is open late for post-Metreon dining.
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826 Folsom, San Francisco CA 94107
French Asian. Sister restaurant to the next-door LuLu's, Azie excels at chic, Asian fusion cuisine in a minimal, modern setting buffered by soaring beams and muted lighting. Curried calamari and other Asian touches to well-prepared dishes served family-style, in addition to attentive and knowlegable service, have secured Azie a place on the San Francisco destination restaurant list. |
598 Fourth St., San Francisco CA 94107
French for "little kiss," Bizou is an unpretentious French fusion bistro housed in a historical San Francisco building (it's been everything from a saloon to a bookie house) in South of Market at Pac Bell Park baseball stadium. The menu features bistro favorites like oysters on the half shell, inventive salads and Frenchified meats, seafood and game for tasteful and nuanced entrees. The flatbreads, especially the Harvest Pizza (with Champagne grapes and bacon), are excellent and affordable choices.
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855 Howard St., San Francisco CA 94103
A kitschy place for Italian immigrant flavor and food in South of Market near the Moscone Convention Center and the SF Museum of Modern Art. Carafes of wine keep flowing (not the vintner's choicest, but certainly the cheapest) and the menu covers the family style favorites like garlic bread, ravioli, hearty pennes, cheesy lasagna and meaty sauces. The atmosphere is boisterous and fun, with red gingham tablecloths and a veritable explosion of Italian-American paraphernalia adorning the walls. Buca di Beppo also has a full bar and is an excellent San Francisco restaurant for large groups and birthday parties.
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500 Brannan Street, San Francisco CA 94107
In the home of the former Bizou, COCO 500 Chef Loretta Keller has revamped the menu, the idea, and the decor. Now catering to ballgame fans and a younger, hipper clientele, COCO 500 still prepares old favorites like the tempura fried green beans with a daily changing dipping sauce, wood oven flat breads and pizzas and the braised beef cheeks. COCO 500 offers the same dedication to fresh, local, organic, ingredients, but with a bright new modern look, an updated menu, and a new bar serving signature cocktails.
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598 2nd St, San Francisco CA 94107
The newest addition to the Plumpjack group, Jack Falstaff brings slow food and fine wine together. The menu at Jackk Falstaff focuses on fresh organic ingredients from local producers in dishes like Vandenberg Farms beef carpaccio with pickled onions, Parmesan, DaVero extra virgin olive oil, crostini, and mustard sauce, or coriander crusted tombo tuna with braised romano beans, Early Girl tomato and saffron vinaigrette, white corn fritters, and spicy remoulade. Popular with the after work crowd and with the pre-game baseball fans, Jack Falstaff restaurant offers plenty of seats at the bar and on an outside heated patio.
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315 Fifth St., San Francisco CA 94107
$$. Relax and order a goat cheese and roasted pepper salad or go straight to a main course of halibut with tomato confit with a sorrel beurre blanc. Dinner for two with wine is about $50. An $18 three-course prix fixe dinner is available.
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1469 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Located at the top of Potrero Hill, this groovy restaurant and lounge feels like a tropical oasis in the city. Executive Chef Ann Thephakay blends the freshest local ingredients with traditional spices to create delicious, contemporary Thai cuisine. Lingba also features unique tropical cocktails and nightly DJs, to a backdrop of palm trees and hanging plants. (Description provided by Opentable.com)
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101 Fourth St. (2nd Floor), San Francisco CA 94103
A dark atmospheric martini club with live jazz perched on the second floor of the Metreon, LJ's Martini Club & Grille offers a full martini menu with such tempting concoctions including the blood orange crush with Charbay blood orange vodka, triple sec, and fresh orange juice or the kaffir lime gimlet featuring Hangar One kaffir lime vodka. Complement the drinks at LJ's Martini Club & Grille with dishes from the restaurant menu which features organic ingredient and dishes ranging from hamburgers to a seared ahi Napoleon and Cajun-style jambalaya.
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816 Folsom (at Fifth St.), San Francisco CA 94107
French Provencal. The upscale darling of SOMA, LuLu opened to rave reviews and continues to be a San Francisco destination restaurant. With an open hearth turning LuLu's signature rotisserie chicken and a family-style menu, LuLu boasts an airy, approachable feel, excellent French Provencal comfort food and attentive service.
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303 Second St. (at Harrison), San Francisco CA 94107
Maya restaurant elevates Mexican food to new heights with its sleek, modern take on classic dishes like tamales and enchiladas as well as more inventive fare like braised pork shoulder with red onion-orange habanero escabeche and grilled hanger steak with a chile de arbol vinaigrette.
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760 2nd St., San Francisco CA 94107
Right across the street from San Francisco's SBC park, MoMo's is a destination for pre- or post-game dining. Try standout dishes like the Dungeness crab cakes with sweet corn salsa and chipotle aioli or the country barbeque baby back ribs with french fries and cole slaw. The extensive menu goes beyond our continental borders offering pizza, risotto, and other dishes alongside the American classics. Outdoor dining in San Francisco MoMo's is hard to beat with its large outdoor decks in one of San Francisco's sunniest nooks.
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1489 Folsom, San Francisco, CA 94103
American. In the same historic brick building as Slim's, the Public is a well kept San Francisco restaurant secret in SOMA with a paradoxically romantic and industrial setting. The menu changes frequently to reflect meticulously crafted twists on American cuisine. The Duck Sugo is a house specialty.
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651 Howard St., San Francisco CA 94105
Tucked away on the quaint Hawthorne Lane, newcomer Roe Restaurant is a punchy addition to the SoMa restaurant scene. A live jazz band plays every night and lends a romantic mood to the passion fruit cocktails and extensive champagne list. Inventive Burmese-Japanese fusion cuisine pairs seafood curries with sushi.
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101 2nd St., Ste. 100 San Francisco CA 94101
Roy's Hawaiian-Asian-fusion cuisine is, in a word, sumptuous. From scallops to mahi mahi to a divine chocolate fudge explosion for dessert, Roy's offers surprising combinations from its open kitchen while the wine list is impeccably tailored to complement the cuisine (or try the Earth-Wind-Fire-Air Sake sampler). Close to Market St. in SOMA and popular at lunch with a Financial District crowd, Roy's has a dark wood dining room with touches of Hawaii and a staff that really exudes a warm, Island hospitality.
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133 Steuart St., San Francisco CA 94105
Shanghai was once the "Paris of the East," and this glamorous and sultry SOMA supper club is an ode to the jazzy glitz of bygone times. The doorman is in period gear, the cocktails are more nostalgic here than elsewhere and the Chinese cuisine gets a chic twist.
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1516 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94107
Sushi. Almost unnoticeable from the outside, Sushi Groove is a hip, industrial hideaway across from Slim's in SOMA's Folsom club corridor. With a live DJ nightly and signature sake cocktails, locals flock to Sushi Groove South for excellent, inventive sushi and a bustling, in-the-know atmosphere.
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661 Howard (at New Montgomery), San Francisco CA 94105
Spanish. A casual, approachable SOMA spot for house-brewed beer and small, Spanish-inspired tapas. Perennially packed during Happy Hour, Thirsty Bear Brewing Company is a favorite among the working crowd and students at the nearby Academy of Art.
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American. Town Hall is a restaurant, located in the historic Meco building, serving New American cuisine with a focus on regional ingredients. There is a communal table, bar, patio, private room, living room and brick and wood dining room.
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130 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA
It's hard not to love Tres Agaves restaurant. Boasting one of the country's premier tequila collections, the good times (and loud) Mexican restaurant also features an open kitchen that turns out soulful, renditions of Jaliscan and other central Mexican classics made with freshest Bay Area produce.
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22 Hawthorne Lane, San Francisco, California 94105
American. An extension of San Francisco's famous (and expensive) Hawthorne Lane restaurant, TWO signifies the restaurant's two, top tier chefs. This new San Francisco restaurant incarnation features funky but sophisticated design, inventive cuisine and attentive service in a secluded and romantic setting on the hideaway Hawthorne Lane.
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181 Third St. (at Howard), San Francisco CA 94103
Fusion. Located on the ground floor of the W Hotel San Francisco, xyz is a sleek space for chic cuisine in a modern, DJ-lounge setting. Mellow, ambient beats fill the air while a knowledgeable staff serves seasonal cuisine, fine wines and cocktails. The xyz restaurant San Francisco is now open for weekend brunch.
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