Selected local Restaurants

 [within walking distance (1 to 5 blocks) from Marines’ Memorial Hotel]

 

 

Grand Café                         Zagat Ratings: Food: 21  Décor: 26   Service:  20

510 Geary (at Taylor)

415-292-0101

“plenty of praise for the French inflected New America food”

Average price $44 (entree, salad, 1 drink)

art deco style.

(in the Hotel Del Monaco downtown)

 

Pacific                                   Zagat Ratings: Food: 23  Décor: 22   Service:  21

500 Post St (at Mason)

415-929-2087

fine Cal-Pacific Rim food

Average price $48 (entree, salad & 1 drink)

(inside the Pan Pacific Hotel)

“tastefully elegant retreat”

 

Farrallon                             Zagat Ratings: Food: 21  Décor: 26   Service:  20

450 Post (bet. Mason & Powell)

415-956-6969

Average price [are you ready for this?] $57 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

“when you need to dazzle your guests”

“whimsical, nautical fantasyland décor”

“luscious, creative seafood”

“well schooled servers ”

“it costs an arm and a leg”

“ambience is refreshing”

 

Postrio                                  Zagat Ratings: Food: 24  Décor: 24   Service:  23

545 Post St (bet Mason & Taylor)

415-776-7825

New American eats

Average price $ 56 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

“staff doles out great treatment”

 

Scala’s Bistro                         Zagat Ratings: Food: 22  Décor: 20   Service:  20

423 Powell (bet Post & Sutter)

415-395-8555

French Italian

Average price $ 56 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

Le Central (Union Square) Zagat Ratings: Food: 19   Décor:  18   Service:  22

453 Bush St

415-391-2233

French

 "popular with politicians, tourist, and Francophiles who add character to the authentic Parisian surrounding", [food ok, very cramped quarters]

Average price $ 39 (includes entrée, salad, 1 drick) 

 

*B44                                     Zagat Ratings: Food: 21  Décor: 17   Service:  18

44 Belden Pl (bet. Bush & Pine)

415-986-6287

Spanish style food

Average price $ 35 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

Anjou                                     Zagat Ratings: Food: 23  Décor: 18   Service:  22

44 Cameron Pl

415-392-5373

French (Bistro)

"authentic bistro worth dealing with small quarters [but they are less cramped than Le Central's] with excellent traditional French fare"

Average price $ 39 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

*Plouf                                   Zagat Ratings: Food: 22  Décor: 16   Service:  17

40 Beldon Pl (bet. Bush & Pine)

415-986-6491

French Seafood

Average price $ 35 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

Anzu                                      Zagat Ratings: Food: 22  Décor: 20   Service:  21

222 Mason St (at O’Farrell St)

415-394-1100

Japanese Steakhouse Sushi

Average price $ 48 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

Millennium                          Zagat Ratings: Food: 23  Décor: 21   Service:  22

580 Geary St (at Jones St)

415-345-3900

Vegan Vegetarian

Average price $ 42 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

*Brindisi Cucina di Mare  Zagat Ratings: Food: 22 Décor: 18   Service:  18

88 Beldon Place (off Pine St)

415-593-8000

Italian

Average price $ 28 (entrée, salad, 1 drink)

 

 

* These restaurants are about 5 blocks away.  The others are closer to the hotel