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The Best San Francisco Restaurants

San Francisco is the best destination to experience the most types of food and is consistently rated as the top city for dining out. Best known for its locally grown, farm-fresh ingredients, the city's beauty, accessibility and multitude of superb, neighborhood-based restaurants make San Francisco a one-of-kind destination for food lovers.

Trendy neighborhoods like Mission District and the expanding South of Market are home to world-class cuisine, while the best kept secret restaurants reside in more locally traveled neighborhoods like the Richmond and Sunset Districts. Look below for the best restaurants in all of San Francisco.

Some Authentic Tips to get you prepared for the plethora of delicious food in San Francisco:

1. Be willing to explore enclaves. Often times the best ethnic and most authentic cuisine is in their respective neighborhoods. Eating in San Francisco is like constructing a quilt. The best San Francisco dining experience will include food culture from different ethnicities and includes a wide range of prices and locations. Our goal at Authentic San Francisco is to suggest restaurants that are the best in every category.

2. Just about every restaurant in San Francisco possesses farm-fresh ingredients and fresh meat and poultry products - dot be afraid to order that sashimi salad or ordering your steak rare. "Organic and Sustainable" philosophy is rampant in San Francisco and this theorem extends to nurturing your mind, body and soul. Whether the food is Indian, Italian, Chinese, French, American, etc., food in San Francisco is a homogeny of preparation and presentation.

3. Prices have increased over the past year because restaurants have been hit with the living wage, paid sick leave and health insurance costs. Restaurant owners, required to absorb some of the cost, have begrudgingly raised prices. San Francisco dining is expensive, but the best spent money in the world on food. Hey, if you're going to live, money might as well be spent on healthy, tasty food for your body .Ground rules: This selective guide to Bay Area restaurants is independent of advertising. Expenses incurred by our critics are paid for by San Francisco, and visits are anonymous. Email us if your dining experience differs from ours. The best restaurants in San Francisco.

The nature of our Authentic Reviews:

- Authentic Food Reviews appear monthly in magazine production as well as the front page of Food and Drink section of web. These are the restaurant's first reviews and are based on at least TWO visits to the restaurant. Often times, restaurants must be open at lease one month before making the first visit.

- Subsequent reviews are posted in Restaurant Reviews section on our web by our staff.

- Authentic reviewers visit the restaurant anonymously and all meals are paid for by Authentic Media.

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Authentic San Francisco's annual celebration of the what you, the readers wanted was a top list of neighborhood restaurants that are not setting a trap for tourists. Rather, you wanted places that existed because they served delicious food, because it mostly dends on local patrons. This is what defines the Authentic "Best of the Best Award"

 

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