36 Californian restaurants in San Francisco that earn more on your cards

San Francisco has 36 Californian restaurants in our listings: 8 take a dining program and 31 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top neighborhoods: Soma (4), Mission District (3), and Western Addition (3).

36 restaurants

  • Birdsong

    up to6%

    American · Soma

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Burdell

    up to6%

    Southern · Temescal

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Commis

    up to6%

    Californian · Piedmont Avenue

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Dalida

    up to6%

    Mediterranean · Presidio

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Ernest

    up to6%

    Californian · Mission District

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Frances

    up to6%

    Californian · The Castro

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Contemporary Mexican · $$ · Presidio Heights

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Rich Table

    up to6%

    Californian · Western Addition

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Saison

    up to6%

    American · Soma

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Californian · Western Addition

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • American · Western Addition

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
  • Indigo

    up to6%

    Californian · $$ · Marina District

    American Express Gold Card

    Rakuten Dining5%
Restaurants
36
Neighborhoods
29
Cuisines
16
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
31

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in San Francisco

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. AAdvantage Dining (5 restaurants) and Eat Around Town (5) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 36 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in San Francisco

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

15 cuisines in San Francisco

Californian in 29 San Francisco neighborhoods

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

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