Best Fine Dining Restaurants in North Panhandle / USF

Service and quality of food. Hard to get reservations

Clearly one of the best restaurants in the Bay Area. We had the 9-course tasting menu, chef Claude’s signature. Usually for such menus there’s always one or two less interesting. Not here, no miss, everything was exquisite. Very polite and knowledgeable service staff. Quiet. Really a fantastic experience.

Zuni is special. It’s that rare combination of exceptionally good food, warm and gracious service and a beautiful, timeless environment where you immediately feel at home. It’s been this way for years and it’s why it is one of my favorite restaurants in the world. This visit reinforced that all over again.

One Market was a great place to go for dinner. The first thing you encounter are the staff and the ambience. Both felt extremely welcoming. The decor of the restaurant has a couple of features that make it outstanding without drawing attention to themselves. First is the layout and high ceiling; this allows for a festive overall feel while still allowing normal conversation. Second is it's location where Market turns the corner onto Steuart. Something about dining while watching buses and streetcars round the corner makes it feel a quintessential San Francisco experience. Food: The chicory salad was great. Bordering on minimalist it nevertheless held a great variety of flavors in choice of ingredients. We had a couple of non-alco drinks. I had a "faux groni" bitter drink. On its own, not so fun. But a great prime rib counterpoint. The prime rib. Admittedly SF has set a high bar with HOPR half a city away. So with the inevitable comparisons: Nice crusted cap surrounding the main body of meat. A little stringier than I like overall. The spinach was sauteed with the garlic a little overcooked for my liking. A small amount of mashed potatoes and the biggest popover I've seen on the side. An odd citrus-y butter presumably for the popover. Not horseradish so dont slather it on your meat. Overall, a very credible prime rib dinner. Dessert was very nice. I had the lemon cheesecake, my dining partner had the butterscotch pudding. The latter was pretty rich so warning there if you think it's tiny or if you conversely want something light. The cheesecake? As nice as it was it demonstrated the idea of seasonality. A square slab of cheesecake topped w/ a small scoop of raspberry sorbet was surrounded by summer berries. Some of which tasted exactly how you'd expect summer berries to taste in Dec. In closing, a place we'd revisit. Comfortable with a rewarding menu.

Amazing dining experience for my husband's birthday. Daria was our server and was excellent. We loved her suggestions on the menu as well. We enjoyed the octopus (best I've ever had), lamb meatballs, Gigantes, Smelt, and the goat stew to finish. We were absolutely stuffed and definitely slept like babies! Everything was stunning. I've heard such wonderful things before coming here, and they had exceeded my expectations.