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Best American Restaurants in San Francisco

By HypedAbout · 11 places · San Francisco

11 American restaurants in San Francisco that creators actually filmed, ranked by how many of them went.

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   Birdsong

   American · SoMa · $$$$

   High Speed Dining · Two Michelin Star Chef Mic'd Up at Birdsong in SF #foodie #restaurant #cooking · May 2026
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   Saison

   American · China Basin · $$$$

   S3 · Sep 2025
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   Buena Vista Café

   American · Fort Mason · $$ Liked it

   • Irish coffee How strong is the Irish coffee? You could put down four. Four? Like you

   S3 · Sep 2025
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   7 Adams

   American · Japantown · $$$ Loved it

   • Beet crustade with dungeness crab tomato jam. Wait, that was great. Sit around on
   • Steamed hens egg a "vichy" potato foam on top. Okay. Obsessed with the egg. That was to die for. I'm going

   S3 · Sep 2025
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   ABV

   American · Mission Dolores · $$ Liked it

   • burger I'm going to get that burger and a cocktail and it's going to make me feel all good about life. There's no reason the food here needs to

   S3 · Sep 2025
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   Ernest

   American · Mission District · $$$ Loved it

   • Koshikari rice my favorite dish that chef makes doesn't get better than this. Koshikari rice. We season it
   • Ikura Ikura. It's 80% saki and 20% nikiri. If there's Oh my god. A little bit of acid at the end of it. It's so nice. I love like punchy, acidic,

   S3 · Sep 2025
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   Spruce

   American · Presidio Heights · $$$ Loved it

   • trout Crudo with blood orange hit their trout Crudo with blood orange
   • sweet pea and Ricotta capetti their sweet pea and Ricotta capetti and the star of the show these glorious

   Michael Ligier · 3 Places in one of the Best Food Cities in the US · Jun 2024
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   Epic Steak

   American · Rincon Hill · $$$$ Loved it

   • surf and turf special ditch the menus and brought us back to make his famous surf and turf special
   • herb crusted Lobster alongside this insane herb crusted Lobster drowned in butter I never really bought into the surf and turf hype but I

   Jack's Dining Room · Who likes surf and turf?? 📍Epic Steak, SF #food #steak #foodreels · Feb 2023
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   Red's Java House

   American · South Beach · $$$

   Anthony Bourdain · Bourdain — No Reservations (2009)
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    Mr Bing's

    American · Chinatown · $$$

    Anthony Bourdain · Bourdain — The Layover (2011)
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    Polly Ann Ice Cream

    American · Outer Sunset · $$$

    Anthony Bourdain · Bourdain in San Francisco

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