Top 10 recently opened restaurants in SF

Beretta (photo by jeannie choe)

Since the coming of a new year is always an occasion for lists, here is my list of top restaurants that have recently opened in SF (recently being 2008 and 2009). They are restaurants I have visited and reviewed. If you click on the links below, they will take you to my review. I will create another list of my absolute top 10.

(1) Frances: Mediterranean-inspired cuisine in a cozy corner of the Castro.

(2) Nombe: Japanese izakaya in the Mission serving very delicious small plates at reasonable prices

(3) 54 Mint: wonderful Sicilian cuisine, excellent selection of Italian wines (downtown SF)

(4) Otoro: small sushi bar serving excellent sushi, sashimi and other Japanese small plates, reasonably priced, in Hayes Valley.

(5) Plant Organic Restaurant: delicious thin-crust pizza, salads and organic food (reasonably priced) near the Ferry Building

(6) Farina: Italian restaurant in the Mission serving excellent pastas and antipasti

(7) Beretta: another Italian place in the Mission, excellent pizzas, fabulous late-night dinner hangout

(8) Gitane: glam interiors, fabulous Mediterranean food and cocktails (downtown)

(9) Zare at Flytrap: Persian-inspired Mediterranean food (SOMA)

(10) Pizzanostra: excellent thin-crust pizza, antipasti, reasonably priced wines (Potrero Hill)

Posted by Esme Vos on Dec 29 2009. Filed under Restaurants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry