Here's every single Michelin starred restaurant in San Francisco

Star rating: Three stars

What is it? Atelier Crenn’s French-born chef-owner Dominique Crenn was the first U.S. woman to earn three stars (in 2018, continuing to today), along with a James Beard award and a spot on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list. Her summers spent on the Brittany coast developed her respect for the sea and the flavors and textures of seafood, apparent in her seafood-forward menu—but vegetarians can also be accommodated. Chef-owner pâtissier Juan Contreras concocts pastries that evoke nature, flowers and aromas; he is a two-time James Beard finalist for outstanding pastry chef. The approximately three-hour experience involves two seatings per evening.

What Michelin says: “The pescatarian menu skillfully weds a panoply of delectable sauces and impeccably prepared seafood, a true testament to Crenn’s mastery of French cuisine—and a loaf of exquisite brioche from her grandmother’s recipe drives the point home.”

Address: 3127 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94123

Opening hours: Tues–Sat 5–8:45pm

Expect to pay: $405 per person, plus add-ons (a 3 percent San Francisco healthcare mandated fee, a 20 percent service charge, and a $5 order fee).

Star rating: Three stars

What is it? James Beard award-winning chef Corey Lee has been a mainstay in this region for years, including a turn as head chef at French Laundry. Benu celebrates 15 years in 2025, with a three-hour experience that features a wide variety of seafood and vegetables, several meat courses and sweets. You can expect delicacies like faux shark's fin and lovingly prepared xiao long bao, as well as an upscale take on Korean barbecue. Want insight beforehand? Purchase Lee’s book Benu, published by Phaidon, which outlines his South Korean heritage and U.S. upbringing and lists 33 of his tasting menus with delectable photos.

What Michelin says: “Benu is an oasis in the center of the city. Patience seems to define this kitchen in its relentless pursuit of excellence, whether that may be perfecting technique or waiting for just the right moment to serve an ingredient at its peak. Meals begin with a series of highly technical small bites.”

Address: 22 Hawthorne St, San Francisco, CA 94105

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 5:30–7:30pm

Expect to pay: The tasting menu is $425 per person, plus a 22 percent service charge.

Star rating: Three stars

What is it? In honor of the restaurant’s 20th anniversary in 2023, Lindsay and chef Michael Tusk refreshed the restaurant, while still honoring its early 1900's vibe in Jackson Square. The restaurant has an exclusive relationship with 25-acre Fresh Run Farm north of the city, committed to sustainable farming. New in 2025 is the Bolinas Bar, an intimate salon with a five-course California Coast and Valleys offerings, or diners can stick to the traditional eight-ten course gastronomy menu served nightly in the main dining room. A four-course lunch is also offered on Fridays and Saturdays, and when the season permits, a white truffle menu is available.

What Michelin says: “Pasta has always been a highlight here, and the agnolotti filled with white asparagus is no exception. Local lamb cooked in the fireplace is arranged with a springtime melange of fava beans, green garlic, and edible blossoms, and accompanied by freshly baked bread tinted by vegetable ash.”

Address: 470 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133

Opening hours: Fri–Sat 11:30am–1pm; Tue–Sat 5-9pm

Expect to pay: $390 or $420 per person for the gastronomy menu, $280 per person for the California Coasts & Valleys menu, $895 per person for the seasonal white truffle menu—plus a 20 percent service charge and a 6 percent surcharge to offset costs for employee healthcare and benefits.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? The food photos at the Sons and Daughters’ website will honestly have you picking up the phone to make a reservation; these are beautiful dishes. And the dishes they are served on are also beautiful; the ceramics are made by Oakland ceramicist Erin Hupp in collaboration with chef Harrison Cheney. The restaurant’s new Nordic cuisine is prepared in an open kitchen, which plays a lively role in the tasting menu experience. The experience takes 2.5–4 hours and includes “symbiosis with other guests,” as the website explains. Cheney won Michelin’s young chef (California) award in 2023, perhaps explaining the restaurant’s bump from one to two stars in 2024, after remaining at one star for 11 years. In early November 2025, Sons and Daughters moved from its Bush Street location to take over the 18th Street space of Osito, a Michelin-starred restaurant that closed in May 2025.

What Michelin says: “Offering an abundance of poise, polish, and charm, this cozy Nob Hill jewel box remains quietly impressive. With a passion for pickling, fermenting, curing, and smoking, chef Harrison Cheney and his tight-knit team present a cleanly minimalist, new Nordic menu that deftly weaves together a variety of preserved fruits and vegetables, flawless seafood, aged meats, and superb sauces.”

Address: 2875 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110 (a new location in November 2025)

Opening hours: Tue–Thurs 6–8pm, Fri–Sat 5:30–9pm

Expect to pay: $315 per person plus a 20 percent service charge and $5 order fee, wine pairing $185, reserve pairing $385, alcohol-free beverage pairing $145.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? Chef Val M. Cantú's Californios serves Mexican cuisine with a passionate complexity. For instance, Michelin raves about the lime-cured cold-smoked hamachi teamed with a sweet lime aguachile with pickled Buddha's hand and cold-pressed cilantro, and the black cod tortilla with sour cherry tamarind salsa. New this year, the San Francisco Martini Trail features the Californios Martini on its map, and the restaurant has been ranked No. 14 on the 50 Best Restaurants in North America list. The ever-evolving three-hour tasting menu focuses on Mexican and Californian influenced cuisine. With black walls and bright, colorful art, the décor inside is evocative of a modern art museum.

What Michelin says: “Californios is a divine dining temple where a passionate focus on heritage is applied with masterful technique….The foundational elements of Mexican cuisine are elevated here through the team's ingenuity and the utilization of the finest products. Familiar dishes are turned complex and deliciously unique.”

Address: 355 11th St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 5–10pm

Expect to pay: $390 per person.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? A James Beard semifinalist this year for Best Chef in California, executive chef Richard Lee offers innovative live-fire cooking inspired by California terroir at Saison, housed in a historic brick warehouse. Saison is one of, if not the, first fine dining establishments in the U.S. to use open hearth cooking. Diners can opt to eat in the dining room with a view of the kitchen or, from Tuesday to Thursday, in an intimate booth in the barside salon. Saison offers a full eight to ten-course tasting menu or an abridged six to eight-course menu. You can add on extras like sea urchin toast ($48) or A5 wagyu from Japan grilled over the embers ($78).

What Michelin says: “At once playful and profoundly earnest, this privileged playpen is adored by the Bay Area's elite. The studied cool of the kitchen extends to its crowd, and the striking warehouse setting blends rusticity with refinement. Everything revolves around the roaring hearth.”

Address: 178 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 5:30–9:30pm

Expect to pay: $338 per person plus beverages, 20 percent service charge, sales tax and the 3 percent mandated San Francisco fee. The abridged tasting menu starts at $218 per person. Wine pairing is $198 for the tasting menu and $158 for the abridged menu.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? Birdsong cherishes “heritage cuisine” by valuing the wisdom of the past and using ingredients in the most whole form possible: seasonal produce, locally butchered animals. You can engage in two different tasting menus; the discovery menu is 2.5 hours and is billed as a streamlined menu perfect for pre-theater dining (Birdsong is close to the Orpheum and the Gold Gate, among others), while the journey menu lasts 3.5 hours and is more intense and immersive. A sample menu item that Michelin appreciates: the lacquered quail with grilled Parker House rolls and crunchy pickles that you can assemble yourself like a Peking duck serving.

What Michelin says: “Live fire is of the essence at this high-ceilinged and elegantly appointed dining room. Chef Christopher Bleidorn's skill lies in his ability to combine the rugged appeal of flame-kissed meats with a delicate touch and palpable sense of whimsy.”

Address: 1085 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 5:30–8pm

Expect to pay: $265 per person for the discovery menu, $325 for the journey menu.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? There’s distinctive atmosphere to Kiln's dark, warehouse-like interior—as if you are in a kiln baking with the pottery. The tasting menu consists of 20-odd courses not tied to a specific culture or geographical region, but “meant to be a study in intention, simplicity and purity of flavor,” reads the website. The experience lasts 2.5 to 3 hours, and you can expect inventive dishes like a crispy curlicue of puffed beef tendon, while Michelin says a more traditional offering would be a “squab breast lacquered with burnt honey and served with a truffled jus.” New to the Michelin list in 2024 with one star (and with the Young Chef award for chef John Wesley), Kiln instantly upped the game with a second star this year.

What Michelin says: “Industry veterans Chef John Wesley and general manager Julianna Yang have combined their talents at Kiln, where the warehouse space is warmed by personable service and the kitchen delivers artful creations. The tasting menu leans Nordic, highlighting preservation techniques like curing, drying and fermentation in dishes whose simplicity is belied by intricate techniques and compelling flavor combinations.”

Address: 149 Fell St, San Francisco, CA 94102

Opening hours: Tue–Thurs 6–8pm, Fri–Sat 5–8:30pm

Expect to pay: $305 per person, $165 beverage pairing, $350 reserve pairing, $135 spirit-free pairing, plus 20 percent service charge, $5 order fee.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? With an A-frame ceiling and earth-toned walls, Acquerello is one of the oldest restaurants on San Francisco’s Michelin list, founded by executive chef-owner Suzette Gresham in 1989 and operated by Giancarlo Paterlini. Here in Nob Hill, you’ll find an extensive Italian wine and Champagne cellar, noted as one of the best in the country, as well as an eight-course seasonal tasting menu, a tasting of vegetables, a four-course menu, and a white truffle tasting menu with hand-foraged truffles when they are available.

What Michelin says: “Handmade pastas combine classic technique with a touch of personal style, and mimicking the art on the walls, some dishes like carrot and ginger terrine or the must-order cheese plate arrive as visual masterpieces. Sweets are a notable strength, down to the very last few bites when one of the best mignardises carts in town rolls up stacked with chocolates, pâtes de fruits, and caramel rolls.”

Address: 1722 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 5–9:15pm

Expect to pay: $275 per person for the tasting menu ($215 for the vegetable tasting, $495 for the truffle tasting, and $165 for the four-course menu); $185 for wine pairing ($95 for the four-course menu), plus a 20 percent service charge and a 4 percent employee benefit surcharge.

Star rating: Two stars

What is it? Lazy Bear is a playful, nostalgic dinner party: the website is set up as a “field guide,” and instead of reservations, you book “tickets” to the experience. Although the communal tables where diners sat together are no longer, the 2.5-hour tasting menu provides hyper-seasonal ingredients paired with creative technique from executive chef and founder David Barzelay and chef de cuisine Genoa Pieron. Seasonal components this fall included aged duck, ham and barley broth, raspberry, summer squash, king salmon, orange creamsicle, new potato fondue, strawberry and grilled lamb. Fun things to consider after you go home: a virtual cooking class, where you receive a meal kit in advance and then do a scheduled Zoom with Barzelay to cook it. You can also do a private wine tasting in the “bear cave” with beverage director Jacob Brown.

What Michelin says: “The nightly tasting menu is served in a swanky, bi-level warehouse decked out like a mogul's hunting lodge. The menu has a sweeping creative scope, drawing on both nostalgia and current culinary trends with a confident swagger.”

Address: 3416 19th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Opening hours: Tue–Sat 5–10pm

Expect to pay: $295 per person plus tax, beverages, service charge.