🔥 Turn up the heat

Heated courtyard, candlelight and old films on the wall over oysters: the platonic ideal of a third date.

Low-lit leather booths and decadent white bolognese built for prolonged eye contact and leaning in.

Proper Hotel rooftop with fire pits and wraparound views, buzzy and design-y enough to feel like a moment.

Sixth-floor Cantonese fine dining over Coit Tower with caviar and carved wood, dress-up romance.

Wood-fired Italian with a face-sized raviolo and a blanketed parklet for cold-night canoodling.

Curved high-backed booths at a French seafood spot literally designed to encourage snuggling.

Dark, orb-lit seafood bar from the State Bird team made for flirty knee brushes.

Marble bar and velour banquettes at a French bistro made for romantic Friday nights.

French bistro with cushioned nooks practically built for cuddling close.

Covered, secluded rooftop deck with wood-fired pizza under twinkle lights, intimate and tucked away.

Italian courtyard with a fountain, dim dangly lights and wedding-Pinterest flowers, swoony all over.

Password-only speakeasy with a hidden library room, the kind of secret that sparks a third-date charge.

Bond-lair cocktail spot with red velvet and lunar drinks, sultry and conspiratorial.

Nineteenth-floor sky lounge with martinis and 360 views, dress up and let it feel cinematic.

Unmarked pub with velvet curtains, dim light and pepper steak, a hidden romantic hideaway.

1930s supper club with live jazz and martinis, old-school charm that turns the heat up.

Communal Japanese baths to soak and unwind together, intimate if you book the co-ed night.

21st-floor Beacon Grand rooftop with vinyl tunes and downtown vistas for a heightened nightcap.

39th-floor lounge with floor-to-ceiling windows, grab a window seat and let the city do the work.

Two-star multi-course Mexican tasting menu, a splurge that signals you mean it on date three.

Fifth-floor Hotel Zelos terrace with fire pits and a buzzy cocktail crowd, dressed-up and flirty.

Brioza and Krasinski's family-style Californian feast, a shared-plates dinner that draws you close.

Bay Bridge views and aquarium pillars over a raw-bar feast, a showy romantic dinner.

Stylish cocktails and small plates, roomy enough to talk and lively enough to feel out the spark.

Oceanfront Victorian ruins and a cliffside trail, a dramatic golden-hour walk for two.

Natural-wine bar that turns into a disco dance party, perfect if date three means dancing close.

Live jazz and crackly sambusas, a candlelit Fillmore room with a slow-burn mood.

Rent a rowboat and drift around a wooded lagoon, sweet and a little romantic if daytime.

Sunset hillside picnic with skyline views, charming but reads more casual than third-date heat.

Intimate world-class jazz cathedral, a refined night out though more concert than canoodle.