superb service and quality food all around. one of the best if not the best for authentic italian food in SF!

If you close your eyes you're in Italy complete with locals laughing, sharing spirits, and eating the homemade pasta, perfect pizza, fresh fish, juicy steaks, and more. Dessert is a must with unique creations of freshly made gelatos and hands down the best tiramisu outside of Italy!

The proprietors, Martino and Valeria, welcome you into their newly remodeled Italian hideaway where they like to push "test kitchen" creations on daring patrons. Some authentic Italian creations and others will leave you happy they throw new world and old world together to create magic. Love, love, love the experience every time!

Excellent Italian restaurant in downtown San Francisco. Pizza is very authentic and thin crust. They have a wood oven that makes for a great pizza. Tiramisu is amazing!

It was very elegant . I wasn’t dressed up and no judgement while ordering . Just overall it was a great experience.

Fabulous food and service! Great for a group.

Excellent service, cuisine, ambiance, and more importantly appropriately priced (not over-priced). Extensive appetizer menu, pasta expertly made, and don't forget the outstanding pizzas. Bottom Line!!! Best Italian restaurant in town.

Excellent Meal. Old school service done right.

Fantabulous!!!!

From start to finish Palio's service, food and beverage are outstanding. Ambiance and décor create a fine dining experience.

We went here on a whim to celebrate my mom’s birthday. The staff was great! The food was amazing and the bill was way lower than we expected for the amount and quality of the delicious food and drinks that we enjoyed! We will definitely be back!!

Great food and friendly staff. We had a great experience from beginning to end!

Food was delicious and service was amazing! Main course excellent and dessert and espresso ended the meal perfect. Restaurant is tucked in a strip setting. Take the time to find it because it’s totally with it.

Everything about my experience at Palio was perfect, as it ALWAYS is--global pandemic or not. Every aspect of my experience was consistent to the perfect experiences my husband and I have had at Palio for now multiple years. The food was delicious! I salivate even thinking about my meal! Martino always makes us feel like we are members of the family when he greets us and always provides impeccable service. If we lived closer to San Francisco, we would 100% eat at Palio every week!

Service was pretty nice, but we ordered ravioli and pizza, both were not good.

The food and service were generally very good. The black truffle butter for the bread was quite good, as was the Bronzino and the pizza. Solid food, a little pricey for what one gets but still worth it.

Always a great location for lunch. The food is good and consistent in it preparation and delivery. Great Italian wine list and friendly service. When business clients are in from out of town this is a "go to" location.

My pasta with crab had little crab, didn’t see or taste green peppers nor breadcrumbs so less than expected. My friends salmon salad looked great. Waiter was nice but didn’t check in. Had to ask for bread.

Great food. The 3-course Fast lunch item was a good value

Food was superb. Ambiance was terrific. Soups and pastas were especially good.
Service was a little on that slow side but not bad. Absolutely no rush through dinner.

Good food, service was good, great place for business lunch.

Valentine’s Dsy

Went here for Valentines Day. Felt it was quite overpriced for the quality of the pizza and pasta. Ordered the crab pasta and it was really crunchy with what tasted like crab shells in it.
Ordered the burrata as an app, it was delicious but asked for a side of bread which was ~$15! Kind of crazy for bread. Guess we were supposed to eat the burrata alone.
It wasn’t very crowded and the service was slow for drinks, then charged for an extra drink. Sadly would not go back.

Absolutely amazing food, good service and affordable🔥 would come again if i ever visit San Francisco again!

We went to Palio for Valentine’s Day. We were seated in the back room. Not as nice as the main room. We had a shared risotto with mushrooms which was great. Our entree was Branzino and Scallops. Also very good. Then our waiter disappeared for 20 minutes. We never got a dessert menu. I had to stand up and waive both of my arms at our waiter. He said i will be right with you...i said no. Here is my credit card. I want to leave. This really ruined our experience at Palio. I will not go again.

Excellent food. Have come here for years for pasta and crab dish. Molto bene!

Good experience. Food was good.

We arrived at Palio to be told that their pasta machine was broken so there would be no pasta served and also there was no Risotto. Not sure what a broken pasta machine has to do with Risotto but that is what was said. We live in Hawaii and had actually made a special trip to San Francisco for the weekend to celebrate my wife’s birthday. Since she loves Italian food and we had been to Palio in the past, that is where she selected. Needless to say she was very disappointed and it put a real bummer on her evening. We chose not to stay and went elsewhere for dinner.

Arturro was fantastic and really made the occasion special.

Excellent food, the di mare salad is a winner. Lovely atmosphere. The perfect place for a business lunch and even though the restaurant was completely full, conversation was possible. Palio is now on my top 3 list for financial district lunches.

Food was horrible.
Fish was completely overcooked

I haven't been to Palio in several years since they did the renovation. It was nice to see that they still had the same excellent high standards in their food and service.

Palio consistently provides excellent food, seasonal choices, and an outstanding staff. It continues to be my go to place for business lunches in the Financial District and the renovation is just plain classy!

Terrific food and service; wonderful for a business lunch.

We had a sizable group which needed to come right away. They did a job getting us in quickly.

Palio is an excellent restaurant that has great ambience and excellent food. We were there to celebrate our New Year’s Eve and has the fixed menu which was both generous and tasty. The service was outstanding and the staff incredibly friendly and we’ll definitely go back again!

NYE dinner with the family

They charged me $5 for bread they never brought to the table.

I enjoy the food although it was better the time before when I had dinner.

Always love Palio! Everyone is super friendly and attentive. The food is great too. It is my go-to restaurant for business lunches and dinners.

While usually we love this spot, the service on this occasion was sub par. We were only a group of 6 and were not attended to in a timely manner. We ended up having to take our food to go because after 45 minutes were were not served. When we tried to speak to the manager he was rude and did not take care of us in a professional manner. A group of six was seated after us and got their order taken and their food before us and in a very normal, timely manner. Not sure why all this occurred, but left with a very bad taste in our mouth.