Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Burlingame from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Burlingame
Velvet 48 Wine Bar in downtown and Café Figaro in Broadway hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide. Ristorante Rocca in Burlingame serves Northern Italian cooking with California influences and a wine list.
A downtown wine bar with an exceptional program, over 40 wines by the glass and 800 by the bottle. It holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and Star Wine List recognition, which places it among the city’s most focused wine stops.
Café Figaro is a Broadway Italian restaurant with an exceptional wine program. It holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and Star Wine List recognition for 2026. The restaurant opened in 1989 and serves classic pasta and seafood.
Ristorante Rocca in Burlingame serves Northern Italian cooking with California influences. Meals are served à la carte. The restaurant has an extensive wine list.
Rasa in Burlingame serves contemporary Southern Indian food, New England Lobster Eatery in Burlingame serves East Coast seafood, and Sakae Sushi & Grill in Downtown Burlingame serves sushi.
Rasa in Burlingame serves contemporary Southern Indian cooking as small plates and à la carte, using traditional techniques, modern flavours and local ingredients. The restaurant pours sake.
New England Lobster Eatery in Burlingame is a seafood market and eatery for East Coast seafood, with lobster, oysters and clams, counter dining and an on-site fish market. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2025.
Sakae Sushi & Grill in Downtown Burlingame offers counter dining and à la carte Japanese sushi. The sushi draws praise as one of the best in the Bay Area, with highlights that include Toro and Kobe beef sushi.
One Wine Spectator award winner is in downtown and the other is in Broadway. Velvet 48 Wine Bar is in downtown and pours over 40 wines by the glass and 800 by the bottle, with Star Wine List recognition. Café Figaro is in Broadway and holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and Star Wine List recognition.
There are 2 Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winners in our Burlingame guide, both recognised for 2026. Velvet 48 Wine Bar in downtown also holds Star Wine List recognition and offers complimentary house sparkling wine on arrival. Café Figaro in Broadway is a classic Italian restaurant and wine bar that opened in 1989.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Burlingame guide. New England Lobster Eatery in Burlingame, a seafood market and eatery with counter dining and an on-site fish market, holds a Michelin Plate for 2025.
Velvet 48 Wine Bar and Café Figaro have the strongest wine programs in the guide. Both are recognised with Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and Velvet 48 is the city’s most explicitly wine-led room.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A Michelin Plate-recognised seafood spot on Burlingame's industrial edge, New England Lobster Eatery holds consecutive OAD Casual rankings (#786 in 2024, #800 in 2025). The draw is direct: whole crustaceans, counter-service informality, and sourcing that prioritises shellfish integrity over dining-room ambition. A practical benchmark for the Bay Area's no-frills seafood tier.
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Cafe Figaro at 1318 Broadway brings a focused wine program to Burlingame's Broadway corridor, earning recognition from Star Wine List in 2026. The venue occupies a niche that sits closer to wine-bar seriousness than casual neighborhood dining, with a list curated well enough to draw attention beyond the Peninsula. A useful address for anyone treating a Burlingame evening as more than an afterthought.
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Velvet 48 on Lorton Avenue is Burlingame's Star Wine List-recognised bar, sitting at the quieter, more considered end of the Peninsula's drinking scene. The wine and spirits program earns its recognition through curatorial depth rather than volume. Reserve well in advance for weekend visits.
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Bistro Arancini occupies a direct address on Broadway in Burlingame, a stretch where casual Italian-leaning concepts sit alongside more eclectic neighbourhood dining. The name signals its anchor ingredient, and in a mid-Peninsula dining scene that increasingly rewards specificity over breadth, that focus carries editorial weight. For visitors exploring Burlingame's Broadway corridor, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the area's other neighbourhood staples.
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Broadway Grill occupies a corner of Burlingame's Broadway corridor, a stretch that draws Peninsula diners looking for a reliable local anchor rather than a destination splurge. See our full Burlingame guide for broader context on where it sits among local options.
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Himali Bistro brings Himalayan cooking to Burlingame's Broadway corridor, sitting within a mid-Peninsula dining scene that spans everything from Italian small plates to American seafood. The restaurant occupies a distinct cultural niche on a street that rewards exploration. For those tracing South Asian and high-altitude cuisines through the Bay Area, it represents a specific and deliberate stop.
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Max's of Burlingame sits on Old Bayshore Highway, a stretch of the Peninsula where utilitarian address and casual format have long coexisted with serious cooking intentions. Positioned within a Burlingame dining scene that ranges from coastal seafood to South Asian and Italian, it occupies the kind of mid-tier American dining slot that rewards regulars who value consistency over novelty.
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Rasa brings the depth of Indian regional cooking to Burlingame's Park Road dining corridor, drawing on culinary traditions that extend well beyond the curry-house shorthand most American diners know. The address at 209 Park Rd places it within easy reach of the Peninsula's tech-corridor clientele. For context on the wider local scene, see our full Burlingame restaurants guide.
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On Broadway in Burlingame, Ristorante Rocca occupies a stretch of the Peninsula's most consistent dining corridor, where Italian-rooted kitchens have built loyal followings among both local regulars and SFO-adjacent travelers. The restaurant sits within a walkable block of several competing formats, making it a reference point for understanding how Italian dining in this zip code is positioned and priced.
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Sakae Sushi & Grill occupies a steady position in Burlingame's California Drive dining corridor, where the Peninsula's appetite for Japanese-American cooking meets a neighbourhood demographic that rewards consistency over spectacle. Compared to the more theatrical sushi formats that have migrated south from San Francisco, Sakae operates in the mid-register grill-and-sushi format that defines much of the Bay Area's suburban Japanese dining scene.
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