Ten Best San Francisco Restaurants Not on OpenTable
Categories: Behind the Menu, Foodie Lists
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| Jen Siska |
| You want to get with Nojo's tempura? OpenTable won't hook you up. |
Almost.
When SFoodie noticed that SF's best Chinese restaurants were all avoiding OpenTable -- and online reservations in general -- we scanned OpenTable's 1,115 Bay Area restaurants to see who else had opted out. Here are our favorite monopoly-busters. Some use Urbanspoon's Rezbook, which is a bigger player in other cities, while others rely on their own e-forms or devotedly cling to Luddism. All answer the telephone.
1. Alembic
2. Cafe Jacqueline (hey, it's run by an ancient French woman)
3. Delfina
4. Gary Danko
5. Incanto (practically anti-OpenTable activists)
6. Isa
7. Locanda
8. Namu
9. Nojo
10. Universal Cafe
Runners up: All of SFoodie's favorite pizza places (Gialina, Pauline's, Una Pizza Napoletana, Pizzeria Delfina, Tony's Pizza Napoletana)
One last tip: Even if you're trying to get into a restaurant that OpenTable swears is booked, call anyway. Most places don't allocate all their tables to online reservations, and will keep a few spots open for tenacious, non-wheedling telephone callers.
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The Alembic
1725 Haight, San Francisco, CA
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