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San Francisco

Everywhere we track in San Francisco — restaurants ranked by the ones where we've seen the Amex Resy credit badge ourselves, then Michelin standing, then how people rate them.

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68 restaurants · showing 41–68

Merchant Roots

4.5 out of 5(188 reviews)American Restaurant · $$$$

Fine dining venue offering reservation-only, themed tasting menu dinners with wine pairings.

1148 Mission St, San Francisco

Sorella

4.4 out of 5(317 reviews)Italian Restaurant · $$$$

Carefully sourced, ambitious New American cuisine & cocktails in a sleek space with a long bar.

1760 Polk St, San Francisco

Zuni Café

4.3 out of 5(2,661 reviews)Californian Restaurant · $$$$

Bustling, bi-level bistro serving famous roast chicken & other seasonal wood-fired eats.

1658 Market St, San Francisco

Abacá

4.3 out of 5(820 reviews)Filipino Restaurant · $$$$

Airy Filipino eatery for rice & noodle dishes, small plates & BBQ skewers with a Californian twist.

2700 Jones St, San Francisco

Che Fico

4.2 out of 5(1,230 reviews)Italian Restaurant · $$$

Handmade pastas, pizzas & seasonal Cal-Italian fare, plus wine & cocktails, in chic top-floor digs.

838 Divisadero St, San Francisco

House of Prime Rib

4.6 out of 5(7,478 reviews)Steak House · $$$

Old-school, English-style restaurant serving acclaimed prime rib & martinis since the 1940s.

1906 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

The Anchovy Bar

4.6 out of 5(451 reviews)Californian Restaurant · $$$

Beer, refined seafood dishes & desserts at a laid-back place with sidewalk seating.

1740 O'Farrell St, San Francisco

Camden Spit & Larder

4.6 out of 5(393 reviews)Restaurant · $$$

Swanky stop for British-inspired spit-roasted meats & farm fare, plus wine & small batch spirits.

555 Capitol Mall #100, Sacramento

Foreign Cinema

4.5 out of 5(3,428 reviews)Californian Restaurant · $$$

Crowds eat Californian-Mediterranean fare (& a popular brunch) in an outdoor space screening films.

2534 Mission St, San Francisco

Waterbar Restaurant

4.5 out of 5(4,596 reviews)Seafood Restaurant · $$$$

Stylish seafood spot with oysters, a horseshoe-shaped bar, and patio with up-close views of Bay Bridge.

399 The Embarcadero, San Francisco

John's Grill

4.4 out of 5(4,923 reviews)Restaurant · $$$

Old-school, wood-paneled space with photos of famous past patrons, offering steaks and seafood.

63 Ellis St, San Francisco

Getting there on points

Published award prices from San Francisco, from our own pricing run.

Flights

CUNBusiness · American AAdvantage
30,000 mi
SJDBusiness · American AAdvantage
30,000 mi
KEFBusiness · Aeroplan
75,000 mi
LHRBusiness · Aeroplan
75,000 mi

Hotels

Hyatt Regency Kyoto
15,000/night
Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile
15,000/night
Park Hyatt Dubai
20,000/night

How this list is built. Restaurants and bars come from Google Places for San Francisco, refreshed Oct 14, and are split between the two tabs by the venue type Google reports. Booking platform is detected from each restaurant's own website. Michelin and Sapphire Reserve marks are matched by name and place. Where Google has no description we say what we hold about the venue instead.

What the marks mean. Since August 1 a restaurant only triggers the Amex Resy credit if its Resy page shows the “Qualifies for Resy Credit” badge — we open those pages and look, last on Sep 15, and a blank badge means we haven't checked yet, not that the credit fails. A sighting inside thirty days reads “Resy credit”; an older one carries the date we saw it, because what we can honestly say is what we saw and when. A Sapphire Reserve table is on Chase's Exclusive Tables list, where the $150 half-yearly dining credit applies — enrol the card at OpenTable first · list Sep 9. Michelin means starred, Bib Gourmand or Selected in the 2026 US guide, collected Sep 9. James Beard and the bar lists are the current year's awards, with a win shown differently from a nomination.

Card credits change without notice. Confirm on Resy or with your issuer before you count on one.

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