From Michelin-starred tasting menus to jazz-filled supper clubs and candlelit wine bars, San Francisco's date night scene earns the city's romantic reputation. These are the spots locals pull out for anniversaries, first dates, and everything worth celebrating.
Marina · 3127 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA
The menu is a poem. Literally, each course arrives preceded by a few lines of verse, and the food lives up to the setup. Twenty-two seats in a spare, precise room where the tasting menu runs seafood-forward California c…
North Beach · 56 Gold St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
A two-story supper club in Jackson Square. Fluted columns, mahogany paneling, plush banquettes, white-jacketed bartenders, and live jazz every evening. The cocktail list runs classic, the menu modern American, and most …
Japantown + Pacific Heights · 3131 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA
A cocktail bar on Fillmore dressed in 1930s Paris. Low light, velvet, and a menu that spans the Blush (rhubarb, grapefruit, rose, gin, champagne) on the floral end to the Rio (mandarin olive oil, eucalyptus, mezcal) on …
Russian Hill · 1113 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
A speakeasy bar in Russian Hill where every cocktail is an original recipe built around Chinese baijiu and Asian regional ingredients, all inspired by the Journey to the West folktale. Walk-in only, password required: f…
North Beach · 565 Green St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
A North Beach wine bar with a menu that punches hard: warm raclette over Yukon Golds, Spanish sardines with crostini and lemon, and a cheese and charcuterie combo board big enough to make dinner of. Evenings pull toward…
Hayes Valley · 458 Grove St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
A garden-patio wine bar where old- and new-world bottles (classic and natural) keep a walk-in crowd happily lingering. Weekday afternoons bring "Cheeky Hour": $9 mini spritzes and stuzziccini on the front parklet, brief…
Mission · 3565 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
A former vinyl store on 20th Street that kept the records and built a bar around them. Full albums spin on the turntable, natural and skin-contact wines pour at an intentional pace, and the food stays tight: seasonal sm…