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★ #7 · Best Steakhouse in San Francisco
The Brazen Head
Cow Hollow · $$$ · Steakhouse · 2 sources · Updated freshness pending
Why it's #7
Roll in at 11pm to a sign-less, cash-only room that looks like an 1800s Scottish pub — dim red glow, velvet curtains — for charred NY pepper steak and gruyère-capped onion soup.
Backed by 2 independent sources across 1 kind of judge — critics, MICHELIN, and locals.
What to order
- 01NY pepper steakCharred, eaten in a dim-red 1800s Scottish pub— The Infatuation
- 02French onion soupCapped with melted gruyère
Where it's ranked
Featured on Eater's guide to the city's best.
“looks like an 1800s Scottish pub: paintings of bearded old men, velvet curtains, a dim red glow”
Good to know
Neighborhood
Cow Hollow
Price
$$$
Cuisine
Steakhouse
Consensus rank
#7 of 8
Sources
2 across 1 kind of judge
Updated
freshness pending
Distinctions
—
Locals want to go
364
Consensus score
65 / 100
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