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A 16, on Chestnut Street in the Marina, is beloved by its neighborhood and attracts food lovers from throughout the city and beyond. It’s an unassuming treasure, a salty and olive-oily gift of San Francisco’s food scene. The food and the wine showcase Southern, Italy, the Compania region, and, in fact, A 16 is named [...]
SPQR is an Italian restaurant on Fillmore in Pac Heights. It specializes in Roman food, although since chef Matthew Accarrino took over the food is less regionally specific. But with a menu that includes crispy pig ears, tagliatelle nettle pasta and Napa lamb, this isn’t your local family-owned baked ziti and minestrone Italian joint. This [...]
Family run Italian restaurants – you know, the kind of place where the tomato sauce is spicy, the pasta dishes are cheesy, the prices are affordable and the atmosphere is vaguely mobish – are hard to come by in San Francisco. But Il Borgo, nestled among much fancier fare in Hayes Valley, delivers warm, comforting and deeply satisfying Italian food cooked by Milan’s own Sergio Frigerio, whose recipes come straight from his mom. This is rustic cooking, and classics, like spaghetti carbonara and fettuccine Bolognese are done simply and traditionally, the way they’ve been prepared for years.
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