Chef/owner Hoss Zare defines hospitality. His restaurant is unlike any other in the city with its big, bold, unfamiliar flavors in the historic setting of the Fly Trap. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Late-night drinkers are powerless before the “sincronizada” ($7)— a gooey melted ham-and-cheese between pressed flour tortillas. One of our 25 favorite food trucks! Read more.
It is said that every US President since William Howard Taft has stayed at this hotel. This hotel is the first place Tony Bennett ever sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
Get tipsy on craft beers in the back garden or score the front booth for its famous mac ’n’ cheese. Read more.
Pair the meaty Taiwanese fried pork or fried chicken over rice ($7) with a side of anchovies with peanuts and chili peppers ($4). One of our 25 favorite food trucks! Read more.
Jeffrey Steingarten tells us this is his "favorite new Manhattan restaurant" in his New York Diet. He's a particular fan of the sauteed squash with parmesan. Read more.
Try the Texas hand roll at this new spot! It's fried chicken tenders, coleslaw, sesame seeds, crushed almonds, and hot-pepper jelly wrapped in a flour tortilla. Read more.
The sister restaurant to Tao, this clubby spot has a dance club downstairs, and serves an intense one-pound Wagyu-blend meatball upstairs. Read more.
This new offshoot of the UES mussels mecca has new dishes and a Top Chef: Just Desserts pastry chef! Read more.
Still the best Caesar Salad and roasted chicken. Always consistent after 30 years. Great Location. - Tim Nugent, Top Chef Just Desserts
Some argue that fried chicken is best enjoyed while sitting on a park bench on a summer’s day. Test that theory at this take-out window, where the chicken is paired with waffles or biscuits.
Just a couple varieties of savor-each-last-drop broth are available each day, but whether it's the crab flake or ground pork, these soups will have you slurping up every last bite. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
Try the tlacoyos ($3): long masa flatbreads stuffed with refried beans and topped with bright-orange spicy pork, sweet chopped onion, lettuce, and cilantro. One of our 25 favorite food trucks! Read more.
Go to the outlandish Sunday brunch: A decadent menu & free entertainment from a mess of circus freaks, including scantily-clad contortionists, a patio-bound firebreather & 18-ft tall stilt-walker Read more.
Bohemian bar next to City Lights Bookstore. Good place to see some of San Francisco's finest characters. -Laurine Wickett, Top Chef
Consummate hostess Yvonne makes a perfect braised oxtail ($6.50) and other Jamaican staples like curried goat. One of our 25 favorite food trucks! Read more.
Shelley Lindgren has crafted one of the best Italian wine programs in the country, service is gracious and chef Liza Shaw has kept the restaurant firing on all cylinders. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
