Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Among the local ingredient highlights are garden crudité, oyster tartare, coal-roasted sturgeon, + "stages of grape." – Green Guide Editor
201 S California Ave (at Park Blvd), Palo Alto, CA
Molecular Gastronomy Restaurant · Evergreen Park · 10 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: The menu is a list of ingredients for a modernist French meal, from cauliflower + mussels to beef fillet to pistachio cake. – Green Guide Editor
320 Village Ln (at N Santa Cruz Ave), Los Gatos, CA
New American Restaurant · 34 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Harmonious new combinations make plates like Belon oyster w/ seaweed ice + nut-crusted chicken breast w /roasted lettuce. – Green Guide Editor
Indian Restaurant · Hayward Park · 33 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: California-Indian cuisine means savory cheesecake in sun-dried tomato crust or spiced sea bass on a bed of sweet corn. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Order lamb tartare, Kurobuta pork chop over crisped mustard spaetzle, and angel food cake dusted in pumpkin powder. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Go hearty w/ boudin blanc or pan-seared skate, or light w/ toasted barley salad. Dessert is a must: crème caramel is perfect. – Green Guide Editor
French Restaurant · Old Mountain View · 23 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Creative takes on antelope filet or poached lobster are a hit, but so are standards like duck breast and tuna tartare. – Green Guide Editor
3859 Piedmont Ave (btw Rio Vista & Montell), Oakland, CA
New American Restaurant · Piedmont Avenue · 28 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Menus change often, but may have Dungeness crab w/ quince "snow" or caramelized abalone or charcoal-roasted Sonoma duck. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Come for seasonal, uncomplicated cooking like hamachi tartare, the famed "rabbit rabbit rabbit," or a "fig Newton." – Green Guide Editor
French Restaurant · Central Napa · 31 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: The 3 or 4-course prix-fixe might start with a grilled portobello, then sweet Nantucket scallops or Niman Ranch ribeye. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Start with frisée + greens then go to rustic chicken roasted in the wood-fired hearth, all smoky skin and juicy flesh. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Tasting menus showcase the chef‘s brilliance with suzuki crudo, Yukon gold gnocchi, or veal. Save room for the bread. – Green Guide Editor
American Restaurant · Saratoga Village · 37 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: It's a global menu, Italian lamb to Asian abalone. The tasting has treats like truffled quail egg + cheesecake bonbons. – Green Guide Editor
755 Silverado Trail North (at Rosedale Rd), Calistoga, CA
New American Restaurant · 93 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Nibble the "locally world-famous" beet salad on the terrace or indulge in crisp, piquant "sol fries" with lemon aïoli. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Moderate portions let you curate your own 4, 5, or 6-course menu. Try crisp pig trotter croquettes and phyllo bisteeya. – Green Guide Editor
2967 Woodside Rd (at Whiskey Hill Rd), Woodside, CA
New American Restaurant · 50 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Bar bites are good, but go all out with arancino and pesto, butter-poached abalone, or the very popular roast chicken. – Green Guide Editor
New American Restaurant · South Beach · 64 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: No menus here, just chef's selections like Parmesan custard, cod in coconut curry, or morels stuffed with pigeon farci. – Green Guide Editor
New American Restaurant · SoMa · 93 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Get the tasting menu for Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and French influences in harmony. Try monkfish liver + pumpkin tofu. – Green Guide Editor
470 Pacific Ave (at Montgomery St), San Francisco, CA
New American Restaurant · Jackson Square · 78 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: The prix-fixe offers seasonal ingredients in perfectly cooked, complex combinations. House made pastas are a highlight. – Green Guide Editor
American Restaurant · North Beach · 61 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Look for deliciously conceptual dishes like "earth and sea," combining tofu with sea water, trout roe, and flowers. – Green Guide Editor
3127 Fillmore St (at Pixley St), San Francisco, CA
French Restaurant · Union Street · 57 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Dishes tell stories: "A Walk in the Forest" is an edible diorama of local mushrooms with white pine-dusted meringue. – Green Guide Editor
800 North Point St (at Hyde St), San Francisco, CA
New American Restaurant · 141 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: You can mix & match a three, four, or five-course tasting menu. Whatever you do, order the fantastic cheese plate. – Green Guide Editor
New American Restaurant · SoMa · 38 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: A typical prix-fixe may be a seasonal pasta, a trio of guinea hen prepared sous-vide, and a savory-sweet dessert. – Green Guide Editor
1529 Fillmore St (btwn Geary & O'Farrell St), San Francisco, CA
New American Restaurant · Fillmore District · 219 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Dim sum-style dishes are delicious fun. Order off the menu for "state bird" (chicken-fried quail) or fried pork belly. – Green Guide Editor
1911 Fillmore St (btwn Bush & Pine St), San Francisco, CA
Italian Restaurant · Lower Pacific Heights · 171 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: The superlative pastas are a necessary focus to meals here, consider embarking on the six-course pasta tasting menu. – Green Guide Editor
American Restaurant · Financial District · 78 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Leave room for refined renditions of classic desserts, like the rich red-velvet génoise with hibiscus-rooibos cream. – Green Guide Editor
Moroccan Restaurant · Outer Richmond · 106 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Lamb confit + the famous duck basteeya have been known to cause swooning. Sip vodka infused with strawberries and chili. – Green Guide Editor
1722 Sacramento St (btwn Polk & Van Ness Ave), San Francisco, CA
Italian Restaurant · Polk Gulch · 45 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Remember to save room for the mignardise cart laden with exquisite cookies, chocolates, lollipops, and caramels. – Green Guide Editor
3640 Sacramento St (btwn Spruce & Locust St), San Francisco, CA
New American Restaurant · Presidio Heights · 133 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Favorites include burrata, duck breast, and lemon and pistachio tart. Don’t miss the cocktail menu and wines by the glass. – Green Guide Editor
Hotel · Downtown San Francisco-Union Square · 56 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Contemporary tones are deliciously clear in the samosas filled with duck spiced with garam masala. Try the key lime pie. – Green Guide Editor
1250 Jones St (btwn Clay & Sacramento), San Francisco, CA
French Restaurant · Nob Hill · 25 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: The best dishes blend French, Californian, and Asian, like cauliflower mousse with trout roe, uni, and cherry blossom smoke. – Green Guide Editor
French Restaurant · Polk Gulch · 65 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Look for courses like pig‘s feet, sweetbreads, lobster terrine, or cheese soufflé with sorbet, bacon and sesame tuile. – Green Guide Editor
French Restaurant · Financial District · 131 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Homey flavors and unexpected touches abound in chorizo with seared scallops or pork short ribs with kabocha squash. – Green Guide Editor
American Restaurant · Downtown San Francisco-Union Square · 51 tips and reviews
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Don't skip the house-made breads that match the tasting courses, from brioche to buckwheat toast to a pretzel roll. – Green Guide Editor
Michelin Travel & Lifestyle: Ame: whether a la carte or as a tasting menu, look for tuna tataki, soft-shell crab, and black cod. Ask for a sake pairing. – Green Guide Editor