Hidden gems: Lunch restaurants in San Francisco

Discover the city's hidden treasures—remarkable spots that are relatively undiscovered but offer exceptional experiences. Our selection criteria? A rating of 4.5 or higher with fewer than 150 reviews. Explore these lesser-known yet outstanding places that promise a delightful visit in San Francisco. This list contains 13 places from Lunch restaurant category.

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Barbary Coast Provisions
Restaurant
👍👍 Amazingly FRESH farmers market food! 🥗🥑 Super clean and the kind of food that GIVES you energy! Bowls🍲smoothies🥤and Avocado Toasts! 🥑 Friendly owner that just opened, go check him out! I want to eat this kind of healthy food everyday.
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5.00 (32 reviews)
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Hungry Cafe
Cafe
👍👍 Delicious cafe that's a must try! Love it's part of the new community center. Various seating available with tables, couches, and long table for cafe laptop friendly working with free wifi. Everything I've tried so far has been really tasty! The Salmon open face toast was one of the best I've ever...
5.00 (21 reviews)
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Keiko's Coffee Shop
Coffee shop
5.00 (16 reviews)
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Kiss My Seoul
Korean restaurant
👍👍 This Korean restaurant serves up delicious and authentic food that's perfect for takeout. I was really impressed with the quality and flavor of the dishes I tried. Everything I had was legit and tasted like it was made by real Korean chef. The menu had a great variety of options, and the prices were...
4.90 (116 reviews)
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Pistachio Kitchen
Breakfast restaurant
👍👍 Saw this place just open on my walk around the neighborhood and decided to try it out! The hostess was super nice and she gave us complimentary baklava as part of their grand opening event. The baklava was delicious! We also ordered: - French Toast 7.5/10 it was good but a little soggy, would’ve p...
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4.90 (42 reviews)
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Creative Ideas Café - Colombian | Mexican Eats
Cafe
👍👍 Restaurant: Excited to have truly amazing breakfast, lunch options like the arepas (love the egg and tomato, onion!!), chorizo breakfast burrito is one of the best, and the bandeja boxes are delicious! Amazing Columbian/Mexican spot and really good for people who are gluten free and vegan. My favori...
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4.70 (58 reviews)
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Leonore’s Deli & Taqueria
Lunch restaurant
👍👍 Loved the vibe of the owner. He was grateful to have business. I got pesto omelet which comes with hash brown and choice of bread. I asked and got English muffin. Big plate to go that i split into 2 meals. Made a muffin sandwich out of it. The egg burrito with choice of meat (sausage) was huge...
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4.70 (47 reviews)
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Peacock Pansy
Breakfast restaurant
👍👍 I am so excited about this new brunch spot in Hayes Valley! The restaurant itself is beautiful, the food is beautiful, but most importantly the food is delicious. My friend and I shared the Fried Chicken & Croffle and the Peacock Pansy pancakes, and we loved them both. I was especially impressed wit...
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4.60 (103 reviews)
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The Happy Vegan
Vegan restaurant
👍👍 They gave me the wrong drink at first but it’s okay cause the matcha drink I did order was delicious 🥹🫶🏼 and the ultimate fries were so good! 10/10 must order.
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4.60 (66 reviews)
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Thanh Thanh Cafe
Vietnamese restaurant
👍👍 I always like coming here for their bbq chicken over rice with their imperial rolls. Super good plus their seafood noodle soup is also really good! Really good customer service, i’ve had to wait a while sometimes in the past for my order but i get to talk to the young guy with glasses who has always...
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4.50 (136 reviews)
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Karma Cafe
Cafe
😐 I have no idea how this place get such good reviews on Google Maps–either this place deteriorated during Covid or previous reviewers are locals who simply stick with their little corner café and have not had something actually good. I stopped by one day and had a small, overpriced breakfast sandwic...
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4.50 (135 reviews)
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Vaulins Taproom Wine Restaurant
Brazilian restaurant
🫤 If you’re cool with waiting 60-90 minutes for basic food, knock yourself out. The front of house folks are friendly and attentive. The food is objectively not bad but the kitchen seems to make one plate at a time for the entire restaurant, with long breaks to discuss whatever Brazilian talk show is...
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4.50 (73 reviews)
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Nob Hill Club at the Mark Hopkins Hotel
Restaurant
Sophisticated restaurant serving seasonal Californian cuisine, with a plush lounge & local wines.
4.50 (26 reviews)
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