San Francisco American (Traditional) Restaurants

Steak

1. Houston's

Neighborhood: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

delicious!   Very small and narrow fries....   You really got the crunch.     My friend had the rib eye steak which he seemed to enjoy as well with a side of mash.  We both managed to polish our meat...

2. Ruth's Chris Steak…

Neighborhood: Pacific Heights

shared sides of spinach au gratin and sweet potato casserole.    Our steaks were presented on 500-degree hot plates, sizzling with fragrant browned butter and topped with a golden, garlicky, blue cheese...

3. Metro Caffe

Neighborhood: Lower Haight

Best Cheese steak in San Francisco. The delicious is strong with this one....

4. Buster's

Neighborhood: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

I love this place.  It's cheap, open late, and really hits the spot after you come out of a bar/lounge.  I've never had a "real" cheese steak from Philly, but I know a good sandwich when I eat one...

5. Lark Creek Steak

The steak was mediocre to say the least. Granted, I come from a veritable mecca of steak afficionados in the central valley but even I have my limits. D for the steak. The peach crisp was OUTSTANDING...

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Burgers

1. KK Cafe

Neighborhood: Lower Haight

Their burgers are amazing.  Their coffee is fantastic.  Their often overlooked breakfast sandwiches are delicious.  The peanut milk apparently cures everything.  This place can do no wrong....

2. Mo's Grill

Neighborhood: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

Good breakfast  and good chocolate shakes.  Burgers are ok, maybe not worth the price, but I'm not a burger expert. Decent diner food and a nice break from all the Italian joints and one of the few...

3. Sam's

Neighborhood: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

Their burgers sound delicious, greasy and amazing.. Greasy burgers in a belly full of booze sounds pretty soothing too, so I'll have to try it next time I'm at Sam's....

4. Grumpy's Restaurant…

Neighborhood: Embarcadero

not comfortable in my table. can i take that table for 4'? its a busy ass PUB you asses. what do you expect?  but like it or not, this place has one of the best burgers in the financial district. thats...

5. Street

Neighborhood: Russian Hill

is so liked is becuase most people are reviewing about their burgers.  But come on, if you are paying $10+ for any burger, it better be good, its hard to fuck that up.  We tried their calamari...

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