This comfortable, popular café is one of the outer Mission's best hangouts, with people lining up for fresh breakfast pastries in the morning and settling...

A perfect spot for sunset cocktails, the Beach Chalet, a historic Willis Polk-designed building on the coast, is home to a fine restaurant and brewpub. The...

Owner Stephen Decker purchased Le Barbizon café in Paris and shipped it to San Francisco one piece at a time. The result, set in an alleyway and resplendent...

Fresh-faced boys and girls crowd Flore's gorgeous patio day and night to check each other out and feast on local favourites (brunch is a must). Deep house...

This is one of the city's great cafés, a former hangout for Kerouac and Ginsberg and is where Coppola is said to have written the screenplay for The...

This is where chef/owner Alice Waters created California cuisine more than 35 years ago. Her modest, wood-framed restaurant still reigns supreme, serving...

This SoMa restaurant is a reinvention of sorts for its popular proprietor, Loretta Keller, whose penchant for Parisian hospitality has given way to a small...

Be prepared to wait a little to be seated for your breakfast: maybe huevos rancheros, perhaps pancakes, possibly a funky omelette or huge scramble of cheese...

Now one of the stalwarts of Mission dining, this restaurant is dominated by the screen on one side of the outdoor courtyard dining room, on which classic...

This collection of ex-military buildings features various cultural institutions, including the Museo ItaloAmericano (Building C, 673 2200,...

Vegans and carnivores alike extol the virtues of venerable Greens, with its waterfront views of the Golden Gate Bridge and award-winning, all-vegetarian...

One of the Castro's can't-go-wrong options, this sceney restaurant has big-city atmosphere but small-town comfort. The crowd tends to be on the make, but...

There are few better places in the city of San Francisco for tea. This serene tea house, an offshoot of the original Chinatown shop, offers a vast array of...

Chris Cosentino's highly regarded restaurant is known for championing sustainably harvested produce, meat and seafood, and for the frequent appearance of...