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Award-winning

Atelier Crenn

4.6
4.6
827 Reviews
$50 and over
French

About this restaurant

  • Innovative
  • Romantic
  • Good for special occasions
Atelier Crenn serves chic, contemporary French cuisine with an artistic touch. The menu describes the multi-course meal through expressive poetry rather than the usual prose found on most menus. Mood, as opposed to a particular craving, is important here. Past early course options have included the salad with carrot jerky, the salsify with white chocolate and cauliflower and the squid ink rice paper. Larger plates at Atelier Crenn are beautifully prepared and aesthetically pleasing, such as the king crab with fennel and tarragon sorbet, the duck egg with pate in porcini mushroom broth, the scallop with pear and sea cucumber dashi, and the bone marrow with osetra caviar and nasturtium. Atelier Crenn's palate cleansers are perfect between-course refreshers. Try the cool raspberry gin and tonic tower.

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Additional information

  • Dining style
    Casual Elegant
  • Price
    $50 and over
  • Cuisines
    French
  • Hours of operation
    Dinner: Tuesday - Thursday: 5:00 PM -10:00 PM Friday - Saturday: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Phone number
    (415) 440-0460
  • Payment options
    AMEX, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
  • Dress code
    Smart Casual
  • Executive chef
    Dominique Crenn
  • Private party facilities
    Main Dining Room- Reservations for a 4 course, 6 course or Chef’s menu ordered off the regular menu are accepted for up to 8 people with a credit card guarantee.
  • Award-winning
    1. World's 50 Best #72 2022
  • Neighborhood
    Cow Hollow
  • Cross street
    Filbert
  • Parking details
    For valet parking, please download & use Luxe, the on-demand parking and valet services app. Luxe makes parking your car easy and stress-free - by picking up and dropping off your car with a simple tap of your phone. No more circling the block, be on time for your dinner reservation. Download Luxe and use code ATELIERCRENN to get $25 towards your first park!<br /><br />http://bit.ly/1FEmvTc<br /><br /><br />
  • Additional
    Banquet, Beer, BYO Wine, Corkage Fee, Farm to Table, Gluten-free Options, Non-Smoking, Private Room, Wheelchair Access, Wine

What 827 people are saying

Atelier Crenn reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

Overall ratings and reviews

4.6
4.6 based on all time ratings
  • 4.7Food
  • 4.6Service
  • 4.2Ambience
  • 0.1Value

NoiseModerate

827 Reviews
  1. ytaima VIP

    Dallas13 reviews

    2.0

    Reviewed on February 12, 2019

    1. Overall 2
    This was a poor, convoluted, overworked and under-cooked meal. The service was glacial, as was the dining room. I hated every minute of it. This, after thirty years of making my way through dozens of three-star Michelin restaurants. It just was excruciating, bizarre and unsavory. The bitter, sour taste of cold, grainy, tasteless food has remained more than a year on. This restaurant gets three thumbs down.

    2 people found this helpful

  2. OpenTable Diner

    San Francisco3 reviews

    4.0

    Dined on March 27, 2016

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 4
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 4
    A Challenge Menu. A perfect service. A very costly wine pairing. A not so good desert offering.

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  3. Deborahah

    Greater Boston31 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on March 6, 2016

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    We've done Daniels, Bill Hill, Inn at Little Washington, the now closed la Belle Vie, Robuchon, and Aubergine etc. but on a trip to San Francisco decided to visit the only female chef with a two star Michelin rating. So glad we did! Modernist cuisine is wonderfully interpreted in her hands! Of course, the exciting Kir Breton to start, followed by ocean and (a few) land interpretations of sea urchin and spiny lobster and beef. All marvelous against the backdrop of her poetry and the moss, fern and shell presentations. Expensive, but so worth it! Enjoy, my friend, enjoy.

    2 people found this helpful

  4. StephanieA

    San Francisco3 reviews

    4.0

    Dined on February 21, 2016

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 5
    Food was great and presentation was definitely an experience itself. Service was friendly and generally really good, although there seemed to be a bit of a lag at the beginning of our reservation, we had 8pm reservations & the first course didn't come out until after 8:30. I highly recommend the wine pairings, we got the regular pairings and they were delicious. They changed to a service included model and now the set menu is $295 with 17 courses and the regular wine pairing is $175.

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  5. OpenTable Diner

    San Diego3 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on February 13, 2016

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 3
    The food was fantastic!! Some of the dishes were so out there in terms or creativity and innovation! I love it when a place like this does not play it safe with "meat and potatoes" dishes. The only downside(not the restaurant's fault) is the type of clientele this attracts. Being a little more trendy than it is classy a lot of younger and annoying patrons will be seen here.

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  6. OpenTable Diner

    San Francisco6 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on February 11, 2016

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    We spent more than $680 for 2 persons. Very expensive, especially we only order a $30 wine by glass. The price is different from what opentable showed...But the meal is pretty worth 3 stars actually. If they can upgrade the dessert flavor, will be perfect.

    2 people found this helpful

  7. OpenTable Diner

    San Francisco2 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on February 10, 2016

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    The poem that was also a hint of what dishes have been prepared. It's a constant guessing game throughout the service

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  8. RobinW VIP

    San Francisco188 reviews

    5.0

    Dined on February 5, 2016

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    Worth every penny (100,000 of them). Perfectly executed - an evening of delicious and surprising food presented in a beautiful, thoughtful way. We could have skipped the wagu beef add -on (at 95 pp and 1 1/2 inches square it was ridiculously priced) but now I can tell my boyfriend I treated him to a thousand dollar dinner for his birthday - and he and it were worth it.

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  9. brockvond

    San Francisco50 reviews

    2.0

    Dined on January 31, 2016

    1. Overall 2
    2. Food 3
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 3
    Each course of the chef's tasting menu is a highly crafted item. Some work better than others. The first "course" is a poem by the chef (Dominique, don't quite your day job), "to guide you through the dining experience." The small and delicious marinated filet of trumpetfish garnished with kumquat slices comes accompanied by the head of the fish itself, the color of an inflamed uvula, that watches you balefully as you eat its flesh. Other courses provide their own interest. A wagyu steak course or a cheese custard (I ordered the latter) are offered as extras if you fear leaving without a full stomach. Whether it's a really great experience for you or a dip into bizarre curiosities will depend on your outlook. (I later found they had burned me for a cancellation fee I was told would be refunded.)

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  10. robinl

    San Francisco9 reviews

    4.0

    Dined on January 27, 2016

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 4
    Wow kinda of meal. On par with other top restaurants in the Bay Area. Playful, whimsical, tasty, creative...after the eight course i ran out words to describe the food. Worth it!

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3127 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94123

Additional information

  • Award-winning
    1. World's 50 Best #72 2022
  • Cross street
    Filbert
  • Neighborhood
    Cow Hollow
  • Hours of operation
    Dinner: Tuesday - Thursday: 5:00 PM -10:00 PM Friday - Saturday: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Price
    $50 and over
  • Cuisines
    French
  • Dining style
    Casual Elegant
  • Dress code
    Smart Casual
  • Parking details
    For valet parking, please download & use Luxe, the on-demand parking and valet services app. Luxe makes parking your car easy and stress-free - by picking up and dropping off your car with a simple tap of your phone. No more circling the block, be on time for your dinner reservation. Download Luxe and use code ATELIERCRENN to get $25 towards your first park!<br /><br />http://bit.ly/1FEmvTc<br /><br /><br />
  • Payment options
    AMEX, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
  • Executive chef
    Dominique Crenn
  • Additional
    Banquet, Beer, BYO Wine, Corkage Fee, Farm to Table, Gluten-free Options, Non-Smoking, Private Room, Wheelchair Access, Wine
  • Phone number
    (415) 440-0460
  • Private party facilities
    Main Dining Room- Reservations for a 4 course, 6 course or Chef’s menu ordered off the regular menu are accepted for up to 8 people with a credit card guarantee.
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