Diners' Choice: Best Overall restaurants in San Francisco Bay Area

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Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for the best overall restaurants in San Francisco Bay Area? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Sonoma Wine Shop & La Bodega

5.0

5 (111)

$31 to $50

Mediterranean

Sebastopol

About the restaurant

Gourmet Vegetarian and Gourmet Vegan dining - 5 nights a week.
We make our own pastas, soups, salads, desserts from scratch.
Headquarters for 3,000 member dine and wine club.
Over 1,500 local members live here in Sonoma County .
Cozy West County vibe. Indoor / patio / garden seating.
5 Stars on Yelp. 7 years Nextdoor Fave.
Reservations and pre-ordering preferred.
Talk with us about any dietary concerns.
A true 'find' here in Sonoma County.

Top review

Michael

Dined 3 days ago

Meekk, Francesca and Elise were all great. Excellent vegetarian food, wonderful wine pairings adjust as we ate. Our favorite meal experience during our wine country visit. I highly recommend.

Velvet 48 Wine Bar

5.0

5 (85)

$31 to $50

Wine Bar

Burlingame

About the restaurant

Velvet 48 is a premium wine bar in downtown Burlingame started by 20-year wine industry veteran, Jason Cooper. We offer over 40 wines by the glass, 1100 wines by the bottle, a cultivated beer selection, and a variety of delicious savory and sweet small plates.

We have wines across every price point so there is something for everyone, from the casual wine drinker to the wine aficionado, who will be impressed by a wine collection that houses some of the finest wines in the world. We aim to cultivate an experience for our guests that starts with a complimentary splash of our house label, Velvet 48 Sparkling wine, followed by outstanding service from our Wine Specialists to guide you through our expansive list. We offer a discount of 25% off bottles purchased TO GO.

Due to the nature of our alcoholic license, we are unable to allow anyone under 21 on the premises, including infants.

Thank your for your understanding.

Top review

Michael

Dined on Apr 5, 2025

Hundreds of wines to choose, from local to worldwide. Knowledgable and friendly staff, chic tasting room, always great vibes and good tunes spinning when we visit Velvet 48!

Sun Moon Studio

5.0

5 (58)

$50 and over

Californian

Oakland

About the restaurant

Sun Moon Studio is a farmer and producer-driven restaurant in West Oakland by Chefs Alan Hsu and Sarah Cooper.

We offer a multi-course tasting menu for $150 per person in our intimate, 4-table dining room. An optional beverage pairing is available for $90 per person. The focus of our menu is to highlight the bounty of local producers and farmers through the lens of our life experiences. *Please note: beginning July 18th, 2025 the tasting menu price will increase to $180. *

We are happy to adjust our menu to accomodate dietary restrictions, but require advanced notice. Please let us of your party's dietaries when making a reservation so we may plan for your arrival.

Reservations are released on a rolling basis, 6 weeks in advance at 12 noon.

We are looking forward to cooking for you!

Alan and Sarah

Top review

Jennifer

Dined on May 31, 2025

What a memorable, lovely meal in a warm and inviting space! I could taste the love and care the chefs put into each dish, and felt like they were able to highlight the essence of each thoughtfully-selected ingredient. I would highly recommend Sun Moon Studio for any celebration, big or small.

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Experience

Sun Moon Studio Tasting Menu

808 Zone

5.0

5 (24)

$50 and over

Japanese

Foster City

About the restaurant

Getting tired of the same omakase experience? Too intimidated to even go to our first one? 808 Zone may be the perfect place for you!
With a contemporary kaiseki meets omakase fused with western inspiration and unexpected flavor combinations experience, your taste buds are surely to thank you for delighting them with something unique and different. Every dish aims to bring something innovative to the table while highlighting the freshness and beauty of the ingredients themselves.

Top review

kevin

Dined 5 days ago

Amazing experience. Very unique and experimental omakase. Would highly recommend.

Commis Bar

5.0

5 (51)

$50 and over

Californian

Oakland

About the restaurant

With only 10 bar height chairs at the cocktail bar, the COMMIS BAR experience offers a fixed 4-course menu highlighting some the best seasonal Northern California ingredients through modern and classic cooking techniques.

Diners at the bar are invited for 1.5 to 2 hours over the entire course of the meal with the shorter fixed menu compared to our full length DINING ROOM menu experience.

Top review

KenVIP

Dined 5 days ago

As always an extraordinary dining experience. The food, service and ambiance creates a transformative experience.

Auro

5.0

5 (230)

$50 and over

American

Calistoga

About the restaurant

Calistoga's only Michelin-starred restaurant. Chef Rogelio Garcia crafts seven courses from Napa Valley's peak ingredients, applying French technique with Mexican and Japanese influences. Book the alfresco patio or the intimate dining room and enjoy vineyard and mountain views, or reserve the Chef's Table inside the kitchen. Sommelier Derek Stevenson pairs each course from his 450-label wine list - Wine Spectator's Best of Award of Excellence winner. Experience what happens when Napa Valley's bounty meets Four Seasons hospitality and world-class artistry.

Top review

Nikolas

Dined 5 days ago

Top notch on all levels. It’s an experience my wife and I will never forget. Exceeded our high expectations!

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Sushi Hashiri

5.0

5 (226)

$50 and over

Sushi

SOMA

About the restaurant

A progressive approach executed from a deep history of Kappo and Omakase Edomae Sushi. Two of Japan’s historical culinary concepts brought together combining hyper-seasonal ingredients and premium fish selections direct from our private purveyor inside the world renown Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, Japan. Hashiri’s focus is to exemplify its re-evolving cuisine to showcase Japan’s richest seasonal ingredients.

HASHIRI "KODAWARI EDOMAE SUSHI" - $300
Hyper seasonal multi course Kappo & Omakase Edomae Sushi dining experience at the sushi counter.

HASHIRI " OMAKASE EDOMAE SUSHI" - $200
Hyper seasonal Omakase Edomae Sushi dining experience at the sushi counter.

Due to our limited seating and the effort involved in curating our menu with internationally sourced ingredients, we kindly ask for your understanding regarding our cancellation policy. Cancellations or no-shows within 72 hours of your reservation will incur the full cost of the dining experience.

Top review

LouisVIP

Dined on May 24, 2025

This is definitely the best sushi spot in SF and among the top 5 in the world I have been to. And one of the other spots was a local Ginza place which Chef Ono worked there before and recommended us to go in our last Japan trip. :-)

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Experience

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Cetrella

4.9

4.9 (864)

$31 to $50

Mediterranean

Los Altos

About the restaurant

Inspired by Capri, Cetrella's Mediterranean-Rim, California Coastal cuisine appears in Gourmet, MODERN LUXURY Silicon Valley and Sunset Magazines. The dining room has a coastal-forest palette, opens to a spacious Spanish tiled Paseo for outdoor dining under an umbrella sky, adjacent teaching kitchen, and underground speakeasy. The premises are designed by award-winning Gensler Architects.

Cetrella Executive Chef Amol Thanky brings 16 years experience at fine restaurants attending Austin's Le Cordon Bleu while preparing Italian dishes at Siena Ristorante Toscana, casual to fine dining at Scottsdale's 5-star Desert Ridge, and globally-inspired French cuisine at San Francisco's Gary Danko. Dishes accommodate guest dietary preferences with seasonal vegetarian, fish and meat starters, artisan pasta, and sustainably sourced premium branzino, salmon, chicken, lamb, short rib, steaks, signature desserts, full bar serving wine, beer, cocktails and mocktails.--

M'hamed Bahet | Managing Partner

Top review

Mike

Dined on Apr 13, 2025

The service was outstanding. The waiter, the bartender, the cooks, the owner.

Himali Bistro

4.9

4.9 (24)

$31 to $50

Nepalese

Burlingame

About the restaurant

Himali Bistro is a culinary delight that blends the vibrant spices and traditional cooking techniques of Nepali and Indian cuisine to transport your taste buds on a flavorful journey inspired by the majestic Himalayan region. At this modern restaurant, each dish is crafted with care and expertise to evoke the essence of the mountains, offering a fusion of unique flavors that pay homage to the diverse culinary heritage of the region.

Top review

JohnVIP

Dined on Jun 3, 2025

Lovely dinner. Friendly, helpful and attentive staff. Interesting menu. Great food.

PintxoPote

4.9

4.9 (501)

$31 to $50

Spanish

Los Gatos

About the restaurant

Bienvenidos a PintxoPote! (pronounced 'pincho potay') a pintxos (tapas) bar offering a dining experience showcasing the range of traditional flavors typical of the Basque country in Northern Spain. Here, you will be transported to the world's most acclaimed culinary region: the seaside resort of San Sebastián, a region whose cuisine is distinguished by the excellence of the ingredients and the simplicity in cooking techniques.

Pintxo Pote is the only place in the SF Bay area that offers a current expression of authentic pintxos.

Top review

Nathan

Dined 6 days ago

Amazing and authentic tapas! Very friendly staff. We ordered about 10 dishes and we found all of them to be excellent. Highly recommend with the shortage of good restaurants in the South Bay.

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