San Francisco features numerous tasting-menu options, including a novelty menu for dogs, but many fine-dining meals exceed $200. Eleven local restaurants provide tasting menus priced under $100 for accessible, multi-course experiences. Marlena in Bernal Heights offers a $65, frequently changing four-course menu focused on hyper-local ingredients and unpretentious service, with dishes like ricotta gnudi and deconstructed pappardelle. A French spot in Lower Pacific Heights serves a $57 three-course prix fixe with seasonal items such as salmon with corn and pork shoulder confit. Ernest in the Mission offers a substantial $97 family-style tasting menu with nine to fourteen courses.
San Francisco has so many restaurants with tasting menus, there's even one (for better or worse) for dogs. These restaurant experiences can be some of the most exciting in town-but they can also be the most expensive, with $200+ meals becoming standard at fine dining spots around town. That's where this guide comes in. It's got 11 spots with tasting menus under $100, where you can get a fantastic meal and not cry when you see the bill.
$65 for 4 courses At this Bernal Heights restaurant, hyper-local ingredients dictate what you'll see on the frequently changing four-course menu. The dishes, like ricotta gnudi in brown butter broth and deconstructed pappardelle with aged duck ragu, could have easily been dropped on your table from some stuffy, big-deal fine dining restaurant. But Marlena is the opposite of pretentious, and you'll feel like a regular even after your first visit.
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