2. Limón Peruvian Rotisserie
8.7
1001 S Van Ness Ave (at 21st St), San Francisco, CA
Peruvian Roast Chicken Joint · Mission District · 177 tips and reviews
v f: I love this place!! Best Chicken and Sangria! The Ceviche and Empanadas are to die for!!!
Clara Bayarri: Great place! The ceviche was really good, and the chicken with sauces :)
Sabina B.: The food here is divine, come famished. Aside from the chicken, the ceviche de pescado, paella, lomito saltado, and/or pork ribs are the way to go. Great for dates and groups (downstairs).
3. Foreign Cinema
9.2
2534 Mission St (btwn 21st & 22nd St), San Francisco, CA
New American Restaurant · Mission District · 362 tips and reviews
The Daily Meal: Right off the bat, this is dinner and a movie in one fantastic location. With oysters, beef carpaccio, and a smoky masala pork chop on the menu, you can’t go wrong. Read more.
Aaron K: Good for brunch or dinner--the crab frittata is amazing. I hear the bacon is to die for.
Alissa Robinow: Possibly the best duck I have ever had! The brandade gratin, ceviche and the apple tart were also top notch!
4. Lolinda
8.9
2518 Mission St (at 21st St), San Francisco, CA
Argentinian Restaurant · Mission District · 204 tips and reviews
Caroline: It's like they went into my dreams and made the perfect menu. Delicious steak, ceviche, empanadas, grilled artichokes, dulce de leche, malbec, bourbon-based drinks.
stew tong: New York, ceviche, corn empanadas, and the pork belly! Best pork belly ever
Carissa: ceviche mixto, squash blossom and flat iron steak were all awesome, full of flavor!
Emily Dellas: Excellent, well-priced, fish store! Especially great for live crabs, lobster & oysters.
Heather Shames: Incredibly fresh fish, fantastic oysters and clams and pretty inexpensive. The only fish monger I will go to.
Matt Van Horn: Lobster and dungeness crab is awesome and cheap.
8. El Metate
8.8
2406 Bryant St (at 22nd), San Francisco, CA
Mexican Restaurant · Mission District · 172 tips and reviews
Sam Houston: Get the Torta del Mar (fish Torta). It's absolutely amazing
Kseniya Makarova: Can't go wrong with fish or shrimp anything
Mike Winston: Must get the fish burrito. It's loaded up with light, flaky, tender white fish and all of the usually burrito fixings. Great flavors, cheap price, and very filling. WinstonWanders.com
9. Burma Love
8.9
211 Valencia St (Duboce Ave), San Francisco, CA
Burmese Restaurant · Mission District · 148 tips and reviews
Chris H.: Everything is amazing. Favorites include eggplant with shrimp, garlic noodles with pork, and of course the tea leaf salad.
Nick: Tea leaf salad, chicken with fresh mint. Unique and delicious calamari. Best sesame chicken ever
Lan: Catfish chowder noodle soup is amazing!! I was sad I had to share.
10. Papalote Mexican Grill
8.7
3409 24th St (btwn Valencia St & San Jose Ave), San Francisco, CA
Mexican Restaurant · Mission District · 255 tips and reviews
Ann Larie Valentine: fish tacos have a ton of amazingly tasty fish cooked in white wine
Joe Lazarus: The fish burrito is delicious. La Taquaria might be better for carnitas, but Papalote wins for best healthy / CA burrito in SF. Read more.
Anton Shuster: Try the chicken mole burrito, the grilled prawn tacos, and carne asada quesadilla.
11. Mission Chinese Food
7.5
2234 Mission St (btwn 18th & 19th St), San Francisco, CA
Chinese Restaurant · Mission District · 314 tips and reviews
John Caronna: Went for French "hommage" night. Everything except the cold raw clams was awesome. Lamb with black curry, and olive oil cake were favorites
SFGate: Specialties: Salt cod fried rice; warm egg custard; Westlake porridge; sizzling cumin lamb; kung pao pastrami; ma po tofu; thrice-cooked bacon. Read more.
Trevor Filter: What's not good here? Love the thrice cooked bacon, beef brisket & broccoli, egg-egg noodles, squid ink noodles, shrimp pea dumplings and basically everything else. Toss it down with a few Tsing Taos.
12. Rintaro
9.1
82 14th St (at Folsom St), San Francisco, CA
Japanese Restaurant · Mission District · 73 tips and reviews
Iris Ng: Potato and trout croquettes are perfectly fried, like in Japan.
Alex Priest: Yakitori, katsu, sashimi... everything is amazing. Don't miss the "limited" items. Udon > donburi.
Jim Fazzone: The daily sashimi spread is always perfection. Izakaya bits are stellar.