Quince

Quince is a three-Michelin-star restaurant in San Francisco’s Jackson Square neighborhood, led by Chef Michael Tusk and his wife Lindsay, and celebrated as one of the most beautiful and genuinely accomplished expressions of Italian-Californian fine dining in the United States. The restaurant’s culinary philosophy is grounded in the same conviction that animates the greatest Italian cooking: that exceptional seasonal ingredients, treated with classical Italian technique and honest restraint, create food of profound and lasting pleasure. The tasting menu changes continuously, driven by what the restaurant’s network of trusted Northern California and Italian producers provides at the peak of quality at any given moment. Premium ingredients from the Brentwood Farm — a farm that the Tusks have invested in directly — appear throughout the menu alongside produce from the ferry Plaza farmers market and the finest Italian import sources. Handmade pastas are an exceptional feature of the menu, each one a demonstration of the Italian mastery that Tusk has spent decades cultivating. The luxurious dining room creates an atmosphere of romantic elegance. Service is impeccably professional and warmly personal. The wine program is outstanding, with extraordinary depth in Barolo, Brunello, and the great Burgundy appellations alongside a curated Californian selection. Quince is essential San Francisco dining for anyone who loves Italian cuisine and California’s extraordinary agricultural abundance.