Californios

Top choice in The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill


Parades – from Carnaval to Día de los Muertos – are a Mission specialty, and the parade of Latin-inspired flavors nightly at Californios does justice to the neighborhood's roots and unbridled creativity. Chef Val Cantu collaborates with local farms and artisan producers to reinvent staples with the seasons: imagine sourdough tortillas, foie-gras tamales, Dungeness crab ceviche and wild-strawberry flan. Reserve ahead.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill attractions

1. Ratio 3

0.27 MILES

Art-fair buzz begins at this trippy gallery that's all black outside and stark white inside for maximum impact. While some artists are recognizable from…

2. Balmy Alley

0.37 MILES

Since at least the 1980s, if you stroll through San Francisco's Mission District you've likely noticed the neighborhood's profusion of colorful murals and…

3. 826 Valencia

0.38 MILES

Avast, ye scurvy scallywags! If ye be shipwrecked without yer eye patch or McSweeney's literary anthology, lay down ye doubloons and claim yer booty at…

4. Southern Exposure

0.39 MILES

Art really ties the room together at nonprofit arts center Southern Exposure, where works are carefully crafted not just with paint and canvas, but a…

5. Incline Gallery

0.45 MILES

Ramp up your art collection at Incline, a sloping gallery at the rear of an ex-mortuary where bodies were once transported for embalming. Today this is…

6. Women's Building

0.5 MILES

A renowned and beloved Mission landmark since 1979, the nation's first women-owned-and-operated community center is festooned with one of the neighborhood…

7. 24th & York Mini Park

0.51 MILES

Take a ride on dazzling mosaic serpent-god Quetzalcoatl, who raises his fierce head from the rubberized ground of this pioneering pocket park…

8. Aesthetic Union

0.53 MILES

Upgrade from kitten posters to frame-worthy original SF artworks hand-printed in this working printmakers' studio. Watch prints pulled from a vintage…