In Rose Pistola, architect Cass Calder Smith created a cosmopolitan café with both nautical and old North Beach references. The restaurant features a sweeping 30’ mahogany bar below a yacht-like arched ceiling, a chef’s dining counter overlooking the open kitchen, booths & banquettes in the carpeted dining area, and window-side tables fronting both busy Columbus Avenue and the quieter Stockton Street with swing-out floor-to-ceiling windows. The walls are graced with elegant black-and-white photographs that document the heyday of North Beach and the beat era.
In addition to the outdoor, sidewalk tables, the restaurant has three distinct dining areas inside, each delivering a different experience. Entering from the Columbus Avenue side of the restaurant, you enter the bar space with its tiled floor and small, trattoria-style tables along the window. As you move through the restaurant, you next come to the main dining room, which holds the majority of our seating.
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Voted the best new restaurant in the country in 1996, Rose Pistola is a celebration of the bawdy, friendly but sophisticated side of San Francisco’s Italian district – North Beach. This stylish gathering place personifies the vibrancy of its namesake, a North Beach denizen who ran the most colorful bar and restaurant in the neighborhood. With its San Francisco-style dining counter, booths cozy dining room and lively bar, Rose Pistola invites everything from a leisurely glass of Chianti and a bowl of pasta, to a traditional, Italian-style feast of seasonal antipasti, whole roasted fish and rotisserie meats.
- Contact Kerry Glancy at (415) 399-0499 x104
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