Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants in San Francisco
This list is the 28 Michelin-starred restaurants in our San Francisco guide. Those restaurants hold 42 Michelin stars citywide.
Quince in North Beach, Atelier Crenn in Marina, Benu in Financial District/South Beach, and Californios in South of Market hold three Michelin stars for 2026. Fourteen restaurants on this list also hold a Wine Spectator award. The Grand Awards on this list are Saison in Financial District/South Beach, Lazy Bear in Mission, and Acquerello in Nob Hill.
Starred restaurants on this list are also in Hayes Valley, Chinatown, Tenderloin, Japantown, Presidio Heights, Potrero Hill, Mission Bay, Western Addition, Russian Hill, Mission, South of Market, and Marina.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding Michelin stars, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
7 Adams
1 Michelin star
7 Adams holds a 2025 Michelin star and an Esquire Best New Restaurants nod for its five-course Californian prix-fixe on Sutter Street. Chef Bart Desmidt's kitchen applies focused technique to seasonal ingredients at a price point that sits well below comparable tasting-menu programs in the city. Reservations are competitive; plan accordingly.
Acquerello
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Open since 1989, Acquerello holds two Michelin stars and operates from a converted chapel on Sacramento Street, where classical Italian cooking, shaped by French technique, meets one of San Francisco's most serious wine programs. Wine Director Gianpaolo Paterlini oversees a cellar of 15,000 bottles with particular depth in Piedmont, Tuscany, and California. La Liste placed it among the world's top restaurants in both 2025 and 2026.
Angler SF
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred seafood restaurant on San Francisco's Embarcadero waterfront, Angler operates around a wood-burning hearth and Bay Bridge views that few comparable dining rooms can match. Under Saison Hospitality Group, the kitchen works in concert with a wine program of 2,530 selections and deep Burgundy and California strengths. Ranked #61 in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2024, it sits at the serious end of the city's contemporary seafood tier.
Atelier Crenn
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Atelier Crenn is San Francisco fine dining at its auteur end: Modern French technique filtered through California sourcing, seafood, vegetables, and the biographical poetry of Dominique Crenn. The restaurant carries Michelin three-star recognition and a 2026 OAD Top Restaurants in North America ranking, placing it in a rarefied bracket where provenance and precision matter more than luxury theater.
Benu
3 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Benu sits in San Francisco's serious tasting-menu tier, using French structure and Chinese-Korean reference points with uncommon technical control. Corey Lee's restaurant has the external validation to match the ambition: No. 12 on Opinionated About Dining's 2026 North America ranking, La Liste recognition, a 2025 James Beard Outstanding Restaurant semifinalist nod, and long-running Michelin three-star status.
Birdsong
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Birdsong holds two Michelin stars and a consistent top-60 ranking on Opinionated About Dining's North America list, placing it among San Francisco's most decorated progressive American tables. Chef Chris Bleidorn works a live-fire format at 1085 Mission Street, combining Pacific Northwestern ingredients with technique-driven plating and a wine program of 450 selections weighted toward Burgundy, Oregon, and California.
Californios
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Californios holds two Michelin stars and a consistent position inside Opinionated About Dining's North American top 100 for its contemporary Mexican tasting menu rooted in California's pre-statehood history. Chef Val Cantú structures each course around nixtamalized heritage corn, named local purveyors, and the agricultural traditions of both California and Mexico. The SoMa dining room operates Tuesday through Saturday for dinner only.
Hilda and Jesse
1 Michelin star
Holding a Michelin star for consecutive years in 2024 and 2025, Hilda and Jesse operates at the more accessible end of San Francisco's decorated American dining tier, a $$$ price point against a field of $$$$ peers. Located on Union Street in the Marina, it positions itself between neighborhood warmth and serious culinary intent, with Chef Ollie K.C. Liedags steering a kitchen that has earned sustained critical recognition.
Kiln
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Kiln holds two Michelin stars on Fell Street in Hayes Valley, placing it inside San Francisco's tightest tier of contemporary cooking. Chef John Wesley leads a kitchen ranked in the top 560 restaurants in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025. At the city's upper price bracket, the room delivers enough critical weight to justify the spend.
Kin Khao
1 Michelin star
Kin Khao holds a Michelin star and back-to-back Opinionated About Dining recognition for Thai cooking that draws on northern California produce without softening the spice or diluting the technique. Located inside the Parc 55 hotel in Union Square, it operates at a price point well below the city's top tasting-menu tier while delivering a level of culinary precision that places it in a different conversation from standard Thai dining in San Francisco.
Lazy Bear
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Lazy Bear holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste placement in San Francisco's Mission District, running a dinner-party format that seats guests communally across a mezzanine and ground-floor dining room. The cooking draws on nostalgic American reference points, executed with technical precision, and a 10,500-bottle cellar overseen by a James Beard-nominated beverage director operates from a separate facility across the street.
Le Comptoir at Bar Crenn
1 Michelin star
Le Comptoir at Bar Crenn holds a Michelin star in both 2024 and 2025, placing it within San Francisco's upper tier of contemporary dining on the border of Cow Hollow and the Marina. The bar-counter format and Dominique Crenn's broader culinary program make it one of the city's more considered expressions of California-inflected cooking at the four-dollar-sign price point.
Mister Jiu’s
1 Michelin star
Mister Jiu's holds a Michelin star and a 2022 James Beard Award for Best Chef: California, operating from a historic Chinatown banquet hall on Waverly Place. Chef Brandon Jew reframes Cantonese banquet tradition through seasonal Bay Area produce, positioning the restaurant in San Francisco's top tier of contemporary Chinese-American dining.
Nari
1 Michelin star
Nari holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among North America's top 250 restaurants in 2025, placing it at the sharper end of San Francisco's Thai dining tier. Chef Meghan Clark works from a Post Street address in Japantown, running a dinner-only format that treats the aromatics of central Thai cooking, galangal, kaffir lime, lemongrass, as structural, not decorative.
Niku Steakhouse
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Niku Steakhouse brings Japanese dry-aging discipline and wood-fired technique to San Francisco's Design District, operating under a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among North America's top restaurants. The 18-seat chef's counter frames an open binchotan charcoal grill, and the wine list runs 730 selections with particular depth in Burgundy and California. Dinner runs $66 and above per person before wine.
Nisei
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant on Polk Street, Nisei sits within San Francisco's $$$$ fine-dining tier while reading distinctly apart from the city's more theatrical tasting-menu circuit. Chef David Yoshimura's cooking draws on Japanese technique applied to California ingredients, earning consistent recognition from both Michelin and Opinionated About Dining across multiple years. The wine program runs to 1,455 selections with particular depth in France and California.
O' by Claude Le Tohic
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred French restaurant on the fifth floor of a Union Square hotel, O' by Claude Le Tohic operates in a register that San Francisco's fine dining scene rarely sustains: classically grounded French technique at the summit of the city's price tier, backed by a wine program of 1,265 selections and consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings since 2023.
Quince
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Quince sits in San Francisco’s Jackson Square at the formal end of the city’s Italian-Californian dining spectrum, with three Michelin stars, a Michelin Green Star, and deep farm sourcing behind the polish. Michael Tusk’s kitchen uses Northern Italian structure rather than red-sauce nostalgia, placing pasta, produce, and cellar depth in a conversation with Bay Area seasonality.
Restaurant Naides
1 Michelin star
Restaurant Naides on Bush Street brings Filipino fine-dining tasting menus to San Francisco's Chinatown-adjacent corridor, a format that remains scarce in the city's otherwise ambitious contemporary dining scene. The address places it within walking distance of several Michelin-recognised rooms, yet the cuisine it represents operates in a different register entirely, one the city's high-end circuit has been slow to acknowledge. Plan accordingly: availability and booking details are best confirmed directly.
Saison
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Saison belongs to the Bay Area's serious farm-to-table lineage, but its vocabulary is fire, coastal sourcing, and a dining room built around the kitchen rather than separated from it. Richard Lee's current era keeps the restaurant in San Francisco's high-end Progressive American conversation, backed by OAD, La Liste, James Beard, Relais & Châteaux, AAA, and World's 50 Best recognition.
San Ho Won
1 Michelin star
San Ho Won brings Michelin-starred Korean BBQ to San Francisco's Mission District, where Corey Lee applies the same precision that defines his three-star Benu to charcoal-grilled meats and fermented banchan. Ranked #38 in Opinionated About Dining's North America list for 2025, this is Korean BBQ operating at a tier well above the genre's casual default, serious cooking in an accessible price bracket.
Sons & Daughters
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Sons & Daughters holds two Michelin stars and draws from new Nordic principles to frame the abundant produce of Northern California inside a focused tasting menu format. Chef Harrison Cheney leads a kitchen where Scandinavian restraint and seasonal sourcing meet California's ingredient depth. The Mission District address and a 630-selection wine list anchored in Burgundy, France, California, and Italy complete the picture.
Sorrel
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred New American restaurant on Sacramento Street in San Francisco's Presidio Heights, Sorrel has held a star since 2024 and ranks #291 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list. Chef Alexander Hong runs a focused dinner service Wednesday through Sunday, positioning the restaurant as a neighbourhood anchor in one of the city's quieter residential corridors.
Ssal
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Michelin-starred Ssal elevates Korean heritage through Chef Junsoo Bae's refined tasting menu in San Francisco's Russian Hill, where traditional fermentation meets French technique. This intimate destination transforms familiar flavors like kimchi and gochujang into sophisticated creations, earning recognition among the city's leading dining establishments.
State Bird Provisions
1 Michelin star
State Bird Provisions on Fillmore Street operates a dim sum-style small plates format that remains one of San Francisco's more distinctive service models at the $$$ price tier. Holding a Michelin star since at least 2024 and ranked by Opinionated About Dining in both its casual and gourmet casual tiers, the restaurant from Nicole Krasinski and Stuart Brioza organizes its cooking around salt, fat, acid, and texture rather than classical French architecture.
The Progress
1 Michelin star
The Progress on Fillmore Street earns its Michelin star through a whole-animal, whole-vegetable approach rooted in California's seasonal abundance, with smoke, fire, curing, and fermentation doing the heavy lifting. Sister restaurant to State Bird Provisions, it occupies a tier of San Francisco dining where the cooking is genuinely regional rather than globally referential..
The Shota
1 Michelin star
The Shota + San Francisco elevates Edomae sushi to theatrical art within an intimate eight-seat counter, where Michelin-starred Chef Ingi Son crafts eighteen-course omakase experiences using fish flown directly from Tokyo's Toyosu Market and premium Gifu rice, creating San Francisco's most authentic Japanese fine dining destination.
Wolfsbane
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Named one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Bay Area Restaurants for 2025, Wolfsbane operates out of 2495 3rd St in the Dogpatch corridor, a neighbourhood that has quietly absorbed a disproportionate share of the city's serious new cooking. The recognition places it among a small cohort of Bay Area openings worth tracking from the first year of service.
Planning Michelin-starred restaurants in San Francisco
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants are on this list?
- This list contains the 28 Michelin-starred restaurants in our San Francisco guide, and those restaurants hold 42 Michelin stars citywide.
- Which restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Grand Award?
- Saison in Financial District/South Beach, Lazy Bear in Mission, and Acquerello in Nob Hill hold a Wine Spectator Grand Award on this list. All three also hold two Michelin stars for 2026. Saison's wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive list.
- How many selections are on the wine lists at Angler SF, Nisei, and O' by Claude Le Tohic?
- Angler SF in Financial District/South Beach lists 2,530 selections, Nisei in Russian Hill lists 1,455, and O' by Claude Le Tohic in Financial District/South Beach lists 1,265. Angler SF's list has Burgundy and California depth, Nisei's has depth in France and California, and O' by Claude Le Tohic's program is exceptional and extensive.
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