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Big Sur, CA
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Rutherford, CA
23. REDD
Yountville, CA
24. FRANCES
San Francisco, CA
25. COMMONWEALTH
San Francisco, CA

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Frances
San Francisco, CA

3870 17TH ST
415-621-3870
WWW.FRANCES-SF.COM

Melissa Perello has put her years cooking at notable Bay Area restaurants like Charles Nob Hill and the Fifth Floor to good use. Here the small menu offers only four choices of appetizers and entrées, like spugnole pasta with cotechino sausage, black trumpet mushrooms and Fiore Sardo pecorino and a Liberty Farms duck leg with butter beans, endives and Sicilian olives. But despite the limited choices, Perello gets much love from our reviewers, who say things like "exceptional comfort food in a neighborhood setting," "typical San Francisco fare but it's done absolutely right" and "It's worth the month-long wait for a table."