Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurants in San Francisco

Gary Danko, Zuni Café and Wayfare Tavern are the most critically recognised San Francisco restaurants featured on Best Thing I Ever Ate. We track 7 in total, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.

Updated August 2026

Every Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurant we track in San Francisco

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How this list works

Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Best Thing I Ever Ate and sits among the most critically acclaimed restaurants we index in San Francisco. Ordering is by total professional critic mentions, not user reviews or star averages.

A city with fewer than 5 recorded Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurants gets no page, so this is a list we can stand behind rather than a page built to exist.

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