Seven Hills sits on the ground floor of a building on Polk Street — the restaurant strip that moves through Russian Hill and Nob Hill before becoming the Tenderloin to the south. The room is narrow and warmly lit: small tables, dark wood, the kitchen partially visible from the bar counter. The cooking is Italian in orientation — handmade pasta, seasonal produce, a wine list that favours the Langhe and the Piemonte. The name is a reference to San Francisco's own topography, but the restaurant does not perform the allegory. It operates as a serious neighbourhood restaurant on a street that needs one. The bar seats are the correct choice for a solo visit; the pasta is the correct order.
Russian Hill, San Francisco, United States