Foreign Cinema - San Francisco Restaurant

  • 2534 Mission Street
    San Francisco, CA 94110-2512
  • 415 / 648-7600
  • www.foreigncinema.com
Average Rating
4.0
1196+ reviews
from 3 sources
CitySearch
4.5
76+ reviews
Yelp
4.0
1091+ reviews
Yahoo! Travel
4.0
29+ reviews
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Cuisine Type:
california,mediterranean,Contemporary,french,american
Dates Closed:
No lunch
Open Hours:
Bar/movie: 4p-2a M-Su, Dinner: 6p-10p Tu-Su,Sat 11am-3:30pm, 6pm-11:30pm,Fri 6pm-11:30pm,Tue-Thu 6pm-10pm,Sun 11am-5pm,Thurs-Sat 6-11pm,Sun-Wed 6-10pm,Sat-Sun brunch 11am-5pm,Dinner: Monday thru Thursday, seating from 6pm until 10pm., Friday and Saturday, seating from 6pm until 11pm., Sunday seating from 6pm until 9pm., Weekend Brunch: Saturday 11:00am until 2:30,, Sunday 11:00am until 3:30pm, Caffe Menu offered from 3:30pm u
Reservations:
Reservations recommended
Foreign Cinema
2534 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-2512
Amenities
  • Beer
  • Bar/Lounge
  • Cafe
  • Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies)
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Counter Seating
  • Entertainment
  • Full Bar
  • Late Night
  • Patio/Outdoor Dining
  • Banquet/Private Rooms
  • Non-Smoking Area
  • Smoking Area
  • Fireplace
  • Weekend Brunch
  • Wine
Description
  • Opened by a team that believe movies and dinner are a natural combination, this courtyard restaurant ... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • ... :Inside the dining room, burnished woodwork and a crackling fireplace warm bare, fortress-like concrete walls. A wall of windows reveals more tables in an outdoor courtyard, where the back wall serves as a huge movie screen for nightly ... more on CitySearch
  • ... 'one of a kind', nationally acclaimed restaurant combining foreign and independent films with Cal-Med cooking. Enjoy an industrial chic setting, ... more on OpenTable.com
  • This place is so chic that it's hard to believe it's a San Francisco restaurant, and it's so well hidden on Mission Street that it eludes me every time I seek the valet. An indoor seat here is a lovely place to watch San Francisco's ... more on Frommers
  • Forget popcorn. In this hip, loftlike space, "dinner and a movie" become one joyous event. Classic films like Bernardo ... more on Fodor's
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Reviews
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1.0
Awful Catering Service

(04/15/06)

... atmosphere was a classic. However, the service was horrible and the food is not the greatest either! This place has racial preference and would NOT recommend it to minorities. There is plenty of ... kthegrouch, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Reviews from Yahoo! Travel

2.0
why oh why

(08/22/2002)

... hoping for the best and was very disappointed. I have gone several times still hoping. I went in a group, I went as a couple and I tried the bar to eat a lite bite but found in each case that the food was okay, service was rushed and ... shosho, a user of citysearch.com. Reviews from CitySearch

5.0
Erica H. 's review

... are so many amazing restaurants in SF that I wind up at Foreign Cinema only once or twice a year. But every time I've gone, I've had ... a user of yelp.com. Reviews from Yelp

San Francisco's New Heights

(Sep 2005)

... I ask the Ospitals over dinner to tell me everything they love about their hometown, their enthusiasm is overwhelming. 'We love eating outside at the Foreign Cinema, where they show old movies on the wall, and late ... Lynn Yaeger, a user of Travel + Leisure. Reviews from TravelAndleisure

3.0
Underwhelming

(01/21/06)

... I went as part of the dine-about-town promotion. They seemed to offer decent things for the January S.F. restaurant promo. My overall impression is they try too hard to be "cutting edge" and they try to incorporate too many styles ... j.sasek@sbcglobal.net, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Reviews from Yahoo! Travel

Directions

Cross Street

Between 21st and 22nd sts, The Mission District

Web Resources
  • Read more about Foreign Cinema on Yahoo! Travel
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