Forbes Travel Guide restaurants in San Francisco

Lazy Bear, Gary Danko and Kokkari Estiatorio are the most critically recognised San Francisco restaurants recognised by Forbes Travel Guide. We track 9 in total, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.

Updated August 2026

Every Forbes Travel Guide restaurant we track in San Francisco

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How this list works

Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Forbes Travel Guide 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 Forbes Travel Guide restaurants gets no page, so this is a list we can stand behind rather than a page built to exist.

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