Where to Find California Cuisine in San Francisco

Quince
Gourmet magazine says this Octavia Street restaurant serves "exquisite food honoring the best of the West's small organic producers and family farms."

Hog Island Oyster Company
If California cuisine is about fresh California-produced foods, then this Ferry Building cafe is its purest form, serving fresh oysters from Hog Islands coastal farms.

Chez Panisse
The restaurant where Alice Waters invented California cuisine is still packed every night. If you want to eat here, start calling at 9:00 a.m. one month ahead of time and say your prayers, you'll all the help you can get.

Cosmopolitan Café
San Francisco Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer says this place "features the stellar cooking of Steven Levine." It has also earned the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for its wine list.

Greens
With a beautiful view of the San Francisco Marina and chef Annie Somerville's imaginative cooking, there's much to like at this pioneering vegetarian restaurant.

Hawthorne Lane
Chef Bridget Batson describes her style as “market-driven,” hallmark of California cuisine.

Michael Mina
James Beard Award-winning chef Mina's eponymous restaurant is in the Westin St. Francis Hotel.