Visiting San Francisco - recommendations welcome :-)

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Dear friends in E9 passion and pain,

I am going to go to San Francisco for business in early January. Unfortunately, I will stay for only 4-5 days, will spend most of the time in the Moscone building and will not have a rental car available.
Nevertheless, I will at least be able to e.g. plan some of my dinners independently and I would be happy about some recommendations from locals where to go for a drink and a nice burger, steak or similar :) I learned a lot for my next trip to Chicago from a recent discussion here so I thought I also ask for this trip :)

Thanks a lot in advance and kind regards, Daniel
 
there are a ton of great places to eat not too far from Moscone (reasonable walk) ... a few of my casual favorites
Tadisch seafood grille (California st near Battery st)
Perbacco (italian - california st)
La Mar Cocina (peruvian seafood = next to the ferry terminal)
noshing at the Ferry Terminal - Gotts is a favorite
chinatown - great chinese (i don't know names)

i will think of a few others, but i know some of the locals will have a few thoughts.
 
I just visited San Francisco last week, to visit friends and take in the "its Christmastime in the city" thing. Someone recommended Sam's Tavern to me as an old-time restaurant that harkens back to the days of Sam Spade and Nick & Nora Charles. The restaurant has mature, well dressed waiters (and patrons) and a full bar. Try to get a booth for the full experience, though they were all taken the day we were there.

Sam's is located at 368 Bush Street, a few blocks north of Moscone (Google says it's a 15 min walk) and near Union Square. Their matchboxes give the number as GArfield 1 - 0594 (you're just supposed to know that the area code is 415).

Not having a car in SF should not be an impediment; street parking is impossible on the Moscone side of the city and if you can find a space, your car will get broken into. Still, locals tell me that the city has gotten better since Dan Lurie became mayor.
 
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Great, thanks a lot @rsporsche and @jmackro - highly appreciated!
Seems like I could take a walk to the Ferry Terminal; as I am travelling alone Gott's concept could offer some chance for conversation.
And I appreciate the possibility for 10 different beers on draft at Sam's :)
Maybe I can make use of the Happy Hour at Perbacco :)
Again, thanks a lot for your input!
Kind regards, Dan
 
Dan,

one of the cool thing about Tadisch's is there is 'counter' dining ... its a great seat where you watch some of the cooking and talk to the waiter like a bartender. they also have great drinks. Gotts is cool, it started out in St. Helena (Napa Valley) - great burgers, but the grilled ahi tuna burger is out of this world.
 
I worked in the city for about 20 years and there are so many great restaurants.

South of Market for Chinese, I had a great business lunch at Fang, their family owns another hole in the wall restaurant called House of Nanking. Not as nice a place as Fang, but the food is good.

Scoma's in the warf as mentioned by @lip277 is a favorite, the chiopino is very good and of course you have to have it with plenty of San Francisco sourdough bread.

I did not find the Buena Vista cafe to be worth the visit, we were there about a year ago and didn't enjoy it.
 
I've just been to Burma Superstar on Clement. Wow. (sshhh, don't tell anyone) (waitaminute, 3800 google reviews, nevermind)
 
Burma Superstar
I brought their cook book with me to Porto
Chicken with mint is awesome
 
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