Here are the top five restaurants in San Francisco based on recommendations from Open Table, these restaurants were also chosen because they offer a unique dinning experience.
- Slanted Door ($31-50)
Dinning Style: Casual Elegant
The Slanted Door is a modern Vietnamese restaurant, with strong emphasis on its economically friendly use of produce. The menu contains a great variety from their “raw bar” such as oysters, scallops, and salmon to items on their “meat” menu such as Clay Pot Chicken with Carmel sauce, Oven Roasted Duck Breast to a diverse veggie menu showcases truly unique dishes such as such as the Vegetarian Glass Noodles with Tofu Skin.
- Pres a Vi ($20-$40)
Dinning Style: Casual Elegant
At this restaurant featuring global cuisine you can enjoy tastes of Italian cuisine, Spanish, French, Filipino, and infused with flavors of Latin America. As a complement to the dinning experience, an extensive selection of wine is available that will showcase various regions of the world as well as California’s finest. Dinning Style: Casual Elegant
- Perbacco ($30 and Under)
Dinning Style: Casual Elegant
This restaurant introduces you to the flavors of Italian regions of Piemonte and Liguria with a touch of Provence. The menu offers great variety in Northern Italian cuisine, with dishes to suite the taste of everyone. If you’re a regular, you will never get bored with the menu because the head chef makes an effort to change the menu often.
- Foreign Cinema ($31-$50)
Dinning Style: Casual Elegant
The menu is inspired by California and Mediterranean cuisine infused with the energy of San Francisco’s Mission District. This restaurant offers a unique dinning experience for the dinner with movie screening of independent and foreign films in their outdoor courtyard, as well as music in their bar Laszlo.
- Town Hall ($31-$50)
Dinning Style: Casual Elegant
This trendy restaurant’s menu features American cuisine with a twist. At many restaurants you will see items such as Duck Confit, but the Town Hall has a specialty dish of Duck Confit Enchiladas. You will also see the menu sprinkled with traditional favorites such as Fish and Chips, and Tuna tartare. You will find truly original dishes and a unique interpretation the old favorites at the Town Hall.
June 4th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
My wife and I recently ate at Perbacco. Being from New York, we are always searching for great Italian restaurants. Perbacco did not let us down. Great food and a cool ambience. Definitely one of our favorite San Francisco Restaurants.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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