Castagnola's
Castagnola's Fisherman's Wharf is located in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Castagnola's specializes in serving seafood delivered fresh daily to the restaurant's own dock on San Francisco Bay. Thomaso Castagnola, the founder of Castagnola's, is believed to have created and served the world's first crab cocktail at the 1915 World's Fair, a dish the restaurant still serves today. An upstairs banquet room can fit parties of 200 and includes an outdoor patio with views of the Fisherman's Wharf, Coit Tower and the downtown skyline. Castagnola's is adjacent to a stop on San Francisco's historic F-line public trolley, the world's oldest publicly-operating streetcar line.
Castagnola's
286 Jefferson St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 776-5015
castagnolassf.com
Roots
The Roots Restaurant prepares dishes all day using meat, dairy and other produce grown from local sources. The restaurant is operated inside of The Orchard Garden Hotel, an eco-friendly establishment built to satisfy standards laid out by the US Green Building Council. Roots was chosen by San Francisco Weekly as 2009's Best Organic Restaurant. Roots serves both breakfast and dinner, and private lunch reservations are available on request. The menu features both American and Mediterranean-style food. Roots also offers a cheese menu serving five dairy dishes from local farms. Roots also has a banquet service that feeds up to 50 individuals.
Roots Restaurant at The Orchard Garden Hotel
466 Bush St.
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 659-0349
therootsrestaurant.com
E&O Trading
The San Francisco E&O Trading Company restaurant is located in the city's Union Square district. The interior décor is based upon E&O Trading's history as a famed Southeast Asia trading line. E&O Trading's Southeast Asian Grill offers a variety of Southeast Asian cuisine served family style. E&O Trading is managed by the Moana Hotel & Restaurant Group. Arnold E. Wong, the executive chef of E&O's San Francisco, Larkspur and San Jose locations, has given the restaurant's menu a more modern interpretation of traditional Asian dishes.
E&O Trading Company
314 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 693-0303
eotrading.com/restaurants/sfran/gallery.html
The Cliff House
San Francisco's historic Cliff House contains two dining establishments: Sutro's, featuring three-course fine dining, and the Bistro, which offers a variety of dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Cliff House has been operating as a dining establishment owned by Dan and Mary Hountalas since 1975, but was originally established as a senator's home in 1863. The Bistro is located in the property's 1909 building. The Cliff House has been rebuilt from fire twice, and withstood the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Cliff House
1090 Point Lobos
San Francisco, CA 94121
(415) 386-3330
cliffhouse.com
Opaque
Opaque San Francisco offers a unique dining in the dark experience. Customers order from a menu offering appetizers, entrees and desserts in the restaurant's lobby, and are then led into a pitch-black dining room where patrons are waited on by visually-impaired servers. With the lights off, customers are invited to enjoy both a fuller sense of taste for their meal and a fuller sense of hearing for conversation. The San Francisco Opaque location can seat up to 50 for private events.
The Opaque at Crimson Lounge
689 McAllister St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(800) 710-1270
sf.darkdining.com/
