🥞 Brunch club

The line out front is the whole story. Worth it for a morning bun and a coffee that turned SF into a pastry city.

Order the roast chicken for two and a Caesar, sit by the window, and watch Market Street go by. Forty years on and still the definition of an SF night out.

They project old films on the courtyard wall while you eat. Unbeatable date setup: heated patio, oysters, candlelight, and a movie you half-watch over dinner.

Driftwood-walled beach cafe near Ocean Beach. Famous brunch (the Dutch pancake), house bread, the cozy fog-day antidote.

A cafe in a converted stable with a sunny brick courtyard. Slow morning energy, good for a daytime date that isn't trying too hard.

Theater-district club pairing Creole-Cajun-Southern plates with live blues.

Southern brunch of chicken and waffles, chicken fried steak and beignets.

Pink-walled and always packed; lazy-susans of xiao long bao and glistening char siu arrive fast.

Lemon ricotta pancakes and fried egg sandwiches that draw long weekend lines.

Beloved bistro with French onion soup and a heated patio.

$26/hr unlimited mimosas with seven flavor options at a popular brunch destination.

Since 1938, beloved for its silver-dollar pancakes

House-cured bacon, earl grey cream donuts and blueberry pancakes.

Larger all-day Tartine outpost in the Heath building for bread, pastries and plates.

The Americana double smashburger — charred patty stack, melted cheese, crispy onions; a perennial 'best in SF' pick

Arab bakery doing shakshuka and just-baked mana'eesh pastries.