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Upscale Restaurants in The Bay Area
| Name | Price/ Cuisine |
Location |
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The Balboa Café
With intimate lighting, rich wood accents, and fresh-pressed white... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, American |
Mill Valley |
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Buckeye Roadhouse
This is Mill Valley's secret den of decadence, where house-smoked... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, American |
Mill Valley |
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Cafe Gibraltar
While the cuisine here is broadly called Mediterranean, in the... Reserve |
$$$ Mediterranean |
Moss Beach |
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Camino
The first solo venture of chef-owner Russell Moore (a Chez Panisse... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, American |
Oakland |
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The Caprice
For more than 50 years this Tiburon landmark that overlooks the... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, American |
Tiburon |
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Cetrella
This restaurant—the coast at its most dressed up—is... Reserve |
$$$ Mediterranean |
Half Moon Bay |
El Paseo House of Chops
Chef Tyler Florence and rocker Sammy Hagar teamed up to restore... Reserve |
$$$ Contemporary |
Mill Valley |
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Haven
Daniel Patterson of San Francisco's revered Coi opened this waterfront... |
$$$ American: Modern American |
Oakland |
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Le Garage
Brittany-born Olivier Souvestre serves traditional French bistro... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, French: Bistro |
Sausalito |
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Oliveto Cafe & Restaurant
Respected chef Jonah Rhodehamel is at the helm of this locally... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, Mediterranean |
Oakland |
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Picco
If you're in the mood for fantastically original food and feeling... Reserve |
$$$ Cuisine, American: Modern American |
Mill Valley |
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Rivoli
Italian-inspired dishes using fresh, mostly organic California... Reserve |
$$$ American |
Berkeley |
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Sam's Anchor Cafe
Open since 1921, this casual dockside restaurant with mahogany... Reserve |
$$$ American |
Tiburon |
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Sam's Chowder House
An East Coast-style seafood joint in the Bay Area? This waterfront... Reserve |
$$$ Seafood |
Moss Beach |
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Tomales Bay Foods
A renovated hay barn off the main drag houses this collection... |
$$$ American |
Point Reyes National Seashore |
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