Food trends come and go. So how can you tell which tastes are trending at this very moment?
We took a data-driven look at the question, using Yelp and SafeGraph, a dataset of commercial points of interest and their visitor patterns, to deduce which restaurants have been getting a significant increase in attention this month.
To find out who made the list, we first looked at San Francisco businesses on Yelp by category and counted how many reviews each received. Rather than compare them based on number of reviews alone, we calculated a percentage increase in reviews over the past month, and tracked businesses that consistently increased their volume of reviews to identify statistically significant outliers compared to past performance. Then we analyzed foot traffic data from SafeGraph to validate the trends.
Read on to see which spots are sizzling hot, right now.
One65 Bistro & Grill
Open since May, this French spot is trending compared to other businesses categorized as "Bars" on Yelp.
Citywide, bars saw a median 0.8% increase in new reviews over the past month, but One65 Bistro & Grill saw a 12% increase, maintaining a healthy 4.5-star rating throughout.
One65 Bistro & Grill is one component of James Beard Award-winning chef Claude Le Tohic's four-restaurant dining complex One65, which Eater San Francisco has called "a multi-story bastion for French food in Union Square."
Located on the building's third floor, at 165 O'Farrell St., One65 Bistro & Grill offers French-inspired plates and boasts a full bar serving beer, cocktails and wines from France and California. It also offers afternoon high tea, complete with hors d'oeuvres, sweets and optional champagne and caviar.
One65 Bistro & Grill is open for lunch and high tea from 11:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. daily and for dinner from 5:30–8:30 p.m. on Monday-Saturday. (It's closed for dinner on Sundays.)
Palette Tea House
Whether or not you've been hearing buzz about Ghirardelli Square's Palette Tea House, the popular Cantonese restaurant is a hot topic according to Yelp review data.
While businesses categorized as "Seafood" on Yelp saw a median 0.7% increase in new reviews over the past month, Palette Tea House bagged a 4.6% increase in new reviews within that time frame, maintaining a strong four-star rating.
Interested so far? Here's more about the business from its Yelp page: "Palette Tea House specializes in dim sum, seafood and cocktails. As a modern Chinese, or 'New-Chinese,' restaurant, Palette combines globally sourced ingredients, local produce and innovative culinary technique to serve a fresh take on authentic Cantonese dining."
There's more that's trending on San Francisco's seafood scene: Angler has seen a 3.9% increase in reviews.
Opened in March 2019 by the family behind Bay Area chain Koi Palace, Palette Tea House serves an extensive menu of dim sum, appetizers and entrees, including fresh seafood dishes like Dungeness crab in garlic butter, crispy chili prawns, grilled oysters and seafood noodles. It can be found in Ghirardelli Square at 900 N. Point St., Suite B-201A.
Palette Tea House is open for lunch from 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m.–3 p.m. on weekends, and for dinner from 5:30–8:30 p.m. on Sunday-Thursday and from 5:30–9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
1608 Bistro
The Western Addition's 1608 Bistro is the city's buzziest breakfast and brunch spot by the numbers.
The popular Filipino daytime spot, which opened at 1608 Bush St. (at Franklin Street) in the spring of 2018, increased its new review count by 6.8% over the past month, an outlier when compared to the median new review count of 0.9% for the Yelp category "Breakfast & Brunch." It outperformed the previous month by gaining 2.1 times more reviews than expected based on past performance.
1608 Bistro offers a rotating menu of breakfast and brunch favorites with a Filipino flair. Expect sweet morning eats like pandan pancakes with coconut cream and French toast made with ube bread, as well as savory options like omelets with Spam, congee with pork belly and sous-vide rib eye with fried egg and cauliflower garlic rice.
1608 Bistro is open from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. on Wednesday-Sunday. (It's closed on Monday and Tuesday.)
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