Michelin-starred restaurants in San Francisco Bay Area

Californios

Mexican · San Francisco · $$$$

Chef Val Cantú

Val Cantú cooks a nightly seasonal tasting menu of contemporary Mexican food built on Bay Area ingredients, with dishes like a bluefin tuna tostada and a Dungeness crab flauta. A run of tacos on house-made sourdough tortillas is part of the meal. Bar seats put you among the chef's books and art.

4.7·600 Google reviews

Enclos

Sonoma · $$$$

Chef Brian Limoges cooks modern California coastal cuisine in a restored Victorian house near Sonoma Plaza, pairing French technique with Pacific influences. Seasonal eight-to-ten-course tasting menus lean on ingredients from the restaurant's own farm, with wines from Stone Edge Farm.

4.9·108 Google reviews

Naides

San Francisco · $$$$

Chef Patrick Gabon and Celine Wuu's Filipino fine-dining tasting menu is the Bay Area's only one of its kind. Dinner opens with a burst of street-food-inspired bites, like an abstract lumpia and a mung bean okoy, then builds on funk and acid.

5.0·50 Google reviews

Troubadour

Healdsburg · $$

A Healdsburg bakery by day and intimate 20-seat bistro by night, Troubadour pairs French classics with Sonoma ingredients. Chefs Sean McGaughey and Melissa Yanc serve a prix fixe dinner, with an optional caviar course, or a longer chef's table in a private study with books and a record player.

4.6·192 Google reviews

Wolfsbane

Contemporary Californian with Nordic, Japanese and French accents · Dogpatch, San Francisco · $$$$

Chef Rupert Blease

Chef Rupert Blease serves a seasonal tasting menu of modern, elegant dishes, stripped back to their essentials and built on Northern California produce. Expect nine courses, perhaps shellfish or Liberty Farms duck breast with cocoa-juniper sauce, in an airy, sunlit Dogpatch space with a whiskey-forward cocktail list and a deep wine list.

4.7·39 Google reviews

Joodooboo

Oakland · $$

Chef-owner Steve Joo, who cooked at Chez Panisse and trained in Korea, makes fresh tofu daily at this casual Oakland counter-service banchan shop. Korean cooking through a California lens, with seasonal banchan. Try the fried dooboo set or the chilled acorn noodle bowl.

4.7·278 Google reviews

Kitchen Istanbul

San Francisco · $$$$

A Clement Street neighborhood Turkish restaurant, à la carte, where chef Büşra Ayvaz's menu pairs the beloved adana kebab, wrapped in homemade lavash, with charcoal-grilled prawns and gochujang-spiked mussels. Owner Emrah Kilicoglu's serious but unpretentious wine list is a draw too, with a three-glass tasting program.

4.5·488 Google reviews