Diners' Choice: Best Overall restaurants in San Francisco

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Updated April 05, 2025

Looking for the best overall restaurants in San Francisco? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Savor Cafe

5.0

5 (75)

$30 and under

Vegetarian / Vegan

Sunset District

About the restaurant

Savor offers healthy, vegetarian, and modern Arabic food in the charming inner Sunset neighborhood. Stop by and try the many plant-based dishes that are creative and delicious. After owning Saha in San Francisco and Berkeley for 17 years, Chef Mohamed is excited to bring his newest spin on Arabic-fusion cuisine but this time offering a vegetarian-only menu. Savor offers an experience that has been described as "food that you find at a fine-dining restaurant but served in a casual environment with reasonable prices". One day, Savor may offer alcoholic beverages but in the meantime, guests are invited to bring their favorite bottle from home.

Top review

Lindy

Dined on Mar 20, 2025

Savor is a wonderful restaurant with fantastic tasty and healthy food and a great atmosphere.

Rose's Cafe

4.9

4.9 (597)

$30 and under

Californian

Marina / Cow Hollow / Presidio

About the restaurant

A favorite in the Cow Hollow neighborhood, Rose's Café is a hangout for locals who bask in the sun at sidewalk tables, duck inside for a cappuccino, or stay for a leisurely meal. Many customers are regulars who frequent the pretty bistro-café that offers table service and some of the most deliciously affordable food in San Francisco - Italian fare created using organic local produce, fresh seafood, humanely raised meats, and free-range poultry. Rose's artisan bakers bake a daily selection of pastries, desserts and breads. Menu highlights include: pizzas, daily soups and house made pasta. Accepting Reservations for Dinner Only!

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AnnVIP

Dined 7 days ago

Excellent food, service and ambience at Rose’s as always

Caffe Macaroni

4.9

4.9 (722)

$30 and under

Italian

North Beach

About the restaurant

Chef & co-owner, Mario and his delightful wife, Stephanie, have a knack for making you feel as if they are cooking and serving just for you at this super-reasonable North Beach nook offering robust Southern Italian fare reminiscent of his native Naples; whether you’ve snagged an outdoor table or are in the small, casual interior, it delivers a pasta fix. The menu changes daily to ensure freshness.

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Karla

Dined on Apr 13, 2025

Congratulations to your daughter the happy couple!!

KUSAKABE

4.8

4.8 (415)

$50 and over

Sushi

Financial District / Embarcadero

About the restaurant

Come and experience San Francisco's original Omakase (chef's choice) sushi in the Kyoto-kaiseki style.

Kyoto-kaiseki is considered to represent the ultimate in Japanese dining; combining art and the finest seasonal ingredients.

Kyoto-born and trained chef Mitsunori Kusakabe's creative accolades include winning the Creative Sushi Award from the National Sushi Society and Sushi of the Year in competition against other world-renowned sushi chefs.

If your party size is more than 11 guests or if you are considering a buyout, please contact us at info@kusakabe-sf.com.

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EbenVIP

Dined 6 days ago

Always a great place to enjoy good service and good sushi. Price is reasonable for omakase.

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Experience

Petite Omakase for Tuesday through Friday

Sushi Hashiri

4.9

4.9 (224)

$50 and over

Sushi

SOMA

About the restaurant

A progressive approach executed from a deep history of Kappo and Omakase Edomae Sushi. Two of Japan’s historical culinary concepts brought together combining hyper-seasonal ingredients and premium fish selections direct from our private purveyor inside the world renown Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, Japan. Hashiri’s focus is to exemplify its re-evolving cuisine to showcase Japan’s richest seasonal ingredients.

HASHIRI "KODAWARI EDOMAE SUSHI" - $300
Hyper seasonal multi course Kappo & Omakase Edomae Sushi dining experience at the sushi counter.

HASHIRI " OMAKASE EDOMAE SUSHI" - $200
Hyper seasonal Omakase Edomae Sushi dining experience at the sushi counter.

Due to our limited seating and the effort involved in curating our menu with internationally sourced ingredients, we kindly ask for your understanding regarding our cancellation policy. Cancellations or no-shows within 72 hours of your reservation will incur the full cost of the dining experience.

Top review

Minsfo

Dined on Mar 9, 2025

Amazing omakase sushi dinner. Friendly and professional team who genuinely want to get to know you. Service does not feel rushed, good ambiance, our favorite Japanese restaurant in the Bay Area.

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Experience

"OMAKASE EDOMAE SUSHI"

Experience

"KODAWARI EDOMAE SUSHI"

Blue Plate

4.9

4.9 (1527)

$31 to $50

Contemporary American

Bernal Heights

About the restaurant

The Blue Plate opened in 1999 as a casual spot where friends and neighbors can enjoy the best ingredients our seasons have to offer. Owners Cory Obenour and Jeff Trenam have created a space that feels like a home, with three distinct dining rooms each appointed with the work of local artists. In the back, a lush, night-fragrant garden offers an exotic retreat from the bustle of the city. The kitchen stays committed to using the highest quality local produce and meats in classic American and rustic Mediterranean dishes. Through a working friendship with Bay Area farmers, the Blue Plate is expanding the notion of "the blue plate special" to include dining that is casual, affordable, delicious and responsible.

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Beth

Dined on Apr 11, 2025

Delicious food, good value, great staff, nice ambience

Cafe Tiramisu

4.8

4.8 (1582)

$31 to $50

Italian

Financial District / Embarcadero

About the restaurant

We are offering our food and services in a new way, one that safely creates jobs for our employees, and still provides that quintessential experience only Cafe Tiramisu can.
At Café Tiramisu our pasta and salads as a takeaway experience with authenticity, carefully selected ingredients for maximum taste and freshness to provide healthier options for all of our customers to satisfy vegan, and vegetarian options! ready to be collected or delivered to you.
Remember to save room for one (or more) of our dessert options.

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Tony

Dined 5 days ago

Everything that should be true about dining out is a reality at Cafe Tiramisu. The whole experience from service, ambience, food, and hospitality are just first class in a relaxed atmosphere. A better Italian meal than any other location you might try in North Beach several blocks away. Belden Place is a hidden jewel in the shadow of the BofA building.

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Popular dish

Tiramisu 'Pick Me Up'

Donaji

4.8

4.8 (12)

$31 to $50

Regional Mexican

Mission District

About the restaurant

Donaji is a restaurant in San Francisco that serves Oaxacan, Mexican cuisine. The restaurant is owned and operated by Chef Isai Cuevas, who is a native of Oaxaca, Mexico. Chef Isai serves up his two favorite things: Maiz in all of its forms alongside a blooming Mezcal program Highlighting Oaxacan Distilleries.

The menu at Donaji features a variety of Oaxacan dishes, including Mole, Tlayudas, and Incredible Enchiladas. We also have a Mexican Spirits Bar program with Oaxacan Mezcal at the Forefront along with some other eclectic Mexican Spirits, Mexican Wine and Local Beers.

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ZakaiVIP

Dined on Apr 17, 2025

Pedro was an incredible server. Funny, engaging, and attentive despite how packed the restaurant was. Food was exceptional. Chicken con mole was incredibly juicy with a shatteringly-crisp skin. Also, don’t be afraid to try some grasshoppers! Lastly, this is a great place to try some high-end Tequila and Mezcal at very reasonable prices. Don’t miss out on the extensive beverage list!

Seven Hills

4.9

4.9 (2509)

$31 to $50

Italian

Russian Hill

About the restaurant

Welcome to Seven Hills. We are a rustic neighborhood bistro offering regional Italian food, located in the Russian Hill Neighborhood of San Francisco. We serve great fresh affordable food. Our emphasis is on homemade pastas. Our wine list is small but extremely well thought out and complements our cooking style. We look forward to taking care of you and your guests. If you can not find what you are looking for online please call us directly at the restaurant. See you soon!

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SusannahVIP

Dined 6 days ago

Fabulous staff, fabulous service, extremely elegant food

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4.9

4.9 (48)

$50 and over

American

SOMA

About the restaurant

Saison is a two Michelin-starred, open wood fire restaurant under the leadership of Executive Chef Richard Lee, emphasizing the bounty of California’s evolving terroir and its incredible farmers, ranchers, and fishermen and women. Saison is driven by Lee’s dedication to purity and innovation, paired with a Grand Award-winning wine list in a dynamic space where guest and team celebrate an intimate, culture-shifting experience. Chef Lee builds upon Saison’s formidable foundation as the original fine dining establishment in the U.S. to use open hearth cooking, crafting nuanced flavors with intention that are inspired by the culinary diversity of Northern California.

Saison has one of the country’s largest and most remarkable selections of Old and New World wine, with a special emphasis on Burgundy, originally established by Saison Hospitality co-founder and Saison Winery winemaker Mark Bright and now curated by Beverage Director and Assistant General Manager Molly Greene.

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ellieVIP

Dined 2 days ago

Again and again exceeding expectations in all front

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Experience

Saison Bar Experience

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