Sociale
3665 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA
You don’t just stumble into Sociale. You hunt for it. Down a narrow alley, past the hedge and the iron gate, and suddenly you’re not in San Francisco anymore—you’re in some secret corner of Rome or Florence that the tourists never find. The kind of place locals whisper about but never want to put on a map.
But the real reason you come here? The meat. These people know how to cook an animal. Pork belly that collapses under your fork. Lamb chops with that deep, primal char—pink in the center, dripping, textural. Sociale is the antidote to the influencer circus that downtown dining has become.