The 27 Best Restaurants in San Francisco

"When chef Brandon Jew opens a new restaurant, you know the design is going to be as stylish as the food is delicious. Open rafters, pale pink and bright teal tiles serve as visual appetizers to the feast ahead. Jew’s sweet and sour chicken is a house specialty, and for good reason: you can’t go wrong with crispy rice-battered free range chicken, pineapple, honey, and hawthorn. The only way it could be better? Stuffing it into a homemade pineapple bun as a crispy chicken sandwich. Other highlights include the mushroom mapo tofu with shiitake and fermented chili, and the black sesame banana cake with white sesame cream for dessert." - Kimberley Lovato, Jenna Scatena