Every year the San Francisco Chronicle comes out with its ”Top 100 Restaurants in San Francisco” list. It is an honor for chefs and restaurants to be on this list as tourists and natives alike look to this for guidance. It breaks down restaurants by Bay Area city and region, type of cuisine, price range, reader rating, noise level, and more.
Michael Bauer, the Chronicle’s Restaurant Critic really has a tough job! He is also the luckiest man alive. I was born and raised in San Francisco and always enjoy the restaurants there. Several of the restaurants and chefs on the list are prior James Beard award recipients and several nominees for this year’s award. Provided the complete list prior in another article James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Award Nominees.
Besides San Francisco itself, included in the Bay Area listings are also Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Placer, Monterey, Mendocino, Madera, Contra Costa, and Alameda Counties. This list actually contains more than 100 listings because of many have more than one location and other reasons that Bauer lists in his article.
San Francisco, like other great cities have suffered in this economy. The successful ones are adapting to the times with special menus, allowing a diner to bring in their own wines and at reasonable corkage fees if any at all, and serving great food. I have reported in other articles about restaurant closures because of this economy and San Francisco lost some major ones this year, but because of its diversity in restaurants and price ranges, it is still surviving.
Below you will find the direct link to the Top 100 Restaurants website. There you can sort by any of the criteria mentioned above, click the link and be taken to the Michael Bauer’s review of the restaurant, make a reservation through Open Table or other, and if the restaurant has a website it will be listed so you can go there directly and see their menus and prices.
As mentioned in prior articles, these restaurants need you to survive. It is up to you to keep them in business by going out to dinner and enjoying yourself a bit. Restaurants are not just a place to eat, they are a place to escape and unwind. They also help the economy because of all the employees and chefs this industry employs and all the sub-industries: distributors, wholesalers, truckers, consultants, printers, musicians, interior designers, special kitchen supplies and equipment sellers and manufacturers, liquor, wine, and food producers, real estate firms, insurance agencies, accountants, lawyers — I think you get the drift.
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Top 100 Restaurants in San Francisco
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