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Dinner: 631 Restaurants Found

Overal Rating: 9

Fifth Floor

Address: 12 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Fifth Floor

The chic Fifth Floor restaurant acts as a culinary and visual bridge connecting the Bay area and executive chef Laurent Manrique’s native Southwestern France. The menu is both refreshingly modern and faultlessly traditional, with one dish having a provenance traced to King Henry IV’s table. Fifth Floor’s décor enhances the experience of regional pastiche, with a color scheme that evokes the landscape of both regions. Cool ocean blues mingle with sandy ochres and wine reds, colors that embody not only the surrounding Bay area, but simultaneously transport the diner to Southern France. An evening at Fifth Floor is an exploration in the complexities of our global community, the uniqueness of regional differences and the surprising parallels connecting us all.

Overal Rating: 10

Jardiniere

Address: 300 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Jardiniere

Top 10 Best Restaurants Jardiniere exudes the sultry decadence of a 1920’s era speakeasy. Pat Kuleto’s décor is the height of opulence, with marble and mahogany accents illuminated by warm, amber lighting and cloaked in lush velvet drapes that seem to seclude the restaurant’s revelry from the outside world. With an inverted champagne glass dome, and champagne buckets adorning the Art Deco-style balcony railings, Jardiniere drips with bubbly excess. Chef and co-owner Traci Des Jardins’s French and California-inspired menu is as improvisational and lavish as the Jazz-era décor, changing regularly according to the season and the chef’s own culinary whims. Nightly live jazz completes the stylish ambiance, adding to an atmosphere that is both nostalgically classic and unfailingly hip.

Overal Rating: 10

Masa's

Address: 648 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Masa's

Masa’s has mastered elegant simplicity. Executive chef Gregory Short continues the Masa tradition of exquisitely prepared and well-paired contemporary French dishes presented in a select assortment of tasting menus. Masa’s menu is trimmed of excess fat, leaving only the most succulent and high quality of dishes organized into overwhelmingly indulgent six and nine-course dinners. Like its pared-down menu, Masa’s décor exudes a confident and precise minimalism. Dark chocolate walls contrast with stark white tablecloths, while vases filled with pink and white roses and black and white toile chairs add notes of pastoral charm. The overall effect suggests Masa’s is a study in the ease and sophistication of culinary expertise at its best.

Overal Rating: 9

Ame

Address: 689 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Ame

Located a few streets away from the busy Union Square area, Ame provides a relaxing and elegant getaway and a delectable dining experience. Ame is decorated in a chic and intimate Asian style, with a signature red table that seats eight. Ame offers a New American cuisine that is widely influenced by Japanese creations. The menu provides raw treatments from the sashimi bar as well as various appetizers and entrée plates. Creative dishes like Tai Snapper Sashimi “Kombu Jime” with seaweed, crab and cucumber sauce come from the Sashimi bar. For an appealing main course, Grilled Veal T-bone Steak on Herbed Spätzle with crispy sweetbreads and delta crayfish in oyster mushroom sauce shows off Ame’s culinary fusions.

Overal Rating: 9

Fleur de Lys

Address: 777 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Fleur de Lys

Top 10 Best Restaurants Fleur de Lys presents guests with sophisticated French cuisine in a romantic and intimate setting. The restaurant gives off a dramatic atmosphere with dim lighting, large vases full of flowers, and their trademark fabric ceiling tent. The menu offers creatively crafted dishes like the Duo of Veal Tenderloin and Braised Veal Shank “Parmentier,” which is scented with juniper berry and orange essence. Guests can choose to create a three-, four-, or five course meal with or without wine pairings. Chef/ Owner Hubert Keller is an award-winning chef who was featured on Bravo’s Top Chef as a guest judge in 2006.