Quiet Dinner in SF Tonight

[vliang]

I know this is nearly impossible... but I need a rec for a quiet dinner tonight in SF. Somewhere where you don't have tohers sitting immediately adjacent to you. Any cuisine or neighborhood is okay. Moderate pricing please so no Gary Danko type. And decent food (ie it's not quiet because there are no patrons due to crappy food). Thanks!

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Gary Danko
800 N Point St, San Francisco, CA 94109

[vliang]

The Richmond. Was exactly what we were looking for.

[artychokeasana]

Bacco in Noe Valley is usually quiet. Ask for a tale on the right hand side in the back and you'll be relatively far away from other diners.

[wolfe]

Request was for last night. We are awaiting a report.

[artychokeasana]

yup- I realized after I posted I was a day late and a dollar short....but you never know when a thread will get revived...so I left it.

[Stephanie Wong]

So where did you finally go & was it a nice quiet dinner with good food?

[Windy]

If it's not too late:

Piqueo's (depending on where you sit)
Blue Plate (depending on where you sit; ask for the back rooms)
Inka's
L'Ardoise?
Helmand Palace

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Inkas Restaurant
3299 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Piqueo's
830 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110

Blue Plate
3218 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Helmand Palace
2424 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94109

L'Ardoise
151 Noe Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

[Robert Lauriston]

Helmand Palace is definitely quiet.

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Helmand Palace
2424 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94109

[nocharge]

The Chronicle's website lets you search by noise level, price level, and rating simultaneously. For instance, searching for at least two stars, at most two bells, and at most $$ gives 61 hits in San Francisco.
http://www.sfgate.com/food/search/adv...

[Robert Lauriston]

Maybe Sens?

[charliemyboy]

The tables at El Mansour are pretty far apart and the seating on cushions allows you to sit right next to your dining partner and have a confidential conversation but on a Friday night they probably have a belly dancer.

Many years there was an Asian restaurant (Chinese, I think) in Japantown where each table had its own enclosed booth. That one is probably long gone but maybe someone on the board knows of another similar place. It was a great concept. Barring that, any place with booths would provide some privacy and noise reduction.

Less out of date is the following list of restaurants for “Quiet Conversation” pulled out of the Zagat 2010 SF guide. Not surprisingly it includes some very expensive places needing advance reservations, but maybe something here will work for you--

Bushi-Tei
Cafe Jaqueline
Campton Place
Fleur de Lys
Gary Danko
Kyo-Ya
L'Ardoise
Le Club
Lovejoy's Tea
Luce
Masa's
Quince
Richmond Restaurant
Seasons
Silks
Terzo
Urban Tavern
Zare/Fly Trap
Zinnia

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Gary Danko
800 N Point St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Kyo-Ya Restaurant
2 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94105

Bushi-Tei
1638 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115

Masa's Restaurant
648 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

L'Ardoise
151 Noe Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

Campton Place
340 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Le Club
1250 Jones St Ste 100, San Francisco, CA 94109

Urban Tavern
333 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, CA 94102

Terzo
3011 Steiner St., San Francisco, CA 94123

[Windy]

Seasons is a good suggestion; pricey, but soothing. Although you probably get the same benefit spending two hours in their bar without ordering steak.

Zinna's gone.

[ML8000]

Try Hayes Street Grill aka the nunnery. It's definitely quiet in there.

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Hayes Street Grill
324 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94102

[wolfe]

Try a quiet search under discussion in the top right hand corner.
http://www.chow.com/search?query=quie...

[vliang]

Did that... no answer that really appealed.

[wolfe]

Ruth's thread had a bunch of suggestions for quiet places. None of them appealed?
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/766590

[vliang]

Yeah, probably b/c she was looking for a quiet, celebratory dinner while I'm not. Thanks tho.