From North Beach's brick-oven pizza rivalry to a family-run Sardinian kitchen in Noe Valley, San Francisco's Italian restaurants run deep. Seven spots across the city, each with its own regional character.
Financial District · 490 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
An Italian restaurant in Jackson Square built around a wood-burning oven, where the menu rewrites daily. Housemade pastas, whole fish, spit-roasted meats, and wood-fired pizzas all shaped by whatever's coming in from Ba…
North Beach · 1042 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
A classic Italian restaurant in North Beach built around their wood-fired brick oven. The pizza loads up with thick toppings on char-crisped crust, and the Calzone stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella, sausage and mushrooms…
Noe Valley · 291 30th St, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
An intimate, family-run Sardinian restaurant in Upper Noe Valley, with a warm dining room, a menu written in the island's own dialect, and a 170-bottle wine list featuring an entire section devoted to Sardinia. The mall…
North Beach · 1512 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Florentine floor tiles, Carrara marble, and cherry wood paneling built by Italian craftsmen set a room that has been doing Tuscan cooking since 1970. Fresh pasta is made daily, the prosciutto is cured and hung in-house,…
North Beach · 532 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
A sprawling, buzzy room in the former Rose Pistola space on Columbus Avenue, built for groups and packed every night since day one. The three-day naturally-leavened dough comes out airy and slightly crunchy, the Cacio e…
North Beach · 1570 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Seven dedicated ovens calibrated to twelve distinct pizza styles. Neapolitan wood-fired, New York coal-fired, Detroit pan, St. Louis thin crust. Line the kitchen at this North Beach institution that reads more like an i…
Russian Hill · 1896 Hyde St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
A cozy Italian neighborhood restaurant on Russian Hill, where Florentine chandeliers and sponge-painted walls give the dining room an old-school charm. The house-made pastas are the draw, especially the maccheroncelli i…
Russian Hill · 1800 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
More than forty years of Italian-American cooking have made Contadina one of North Beach's enduring institutions. Reservations are expected, the dress code is enforced, and the menu takes itself just as seriously. From …