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Tuesday 5:30pm - 10pm Wednesday 5:30pm - 10pm Thursday 5:30pm - 10pm Friday 5:30pm - 10pm Saturday 5:30pm - 10pm

Californios SF

Name: Californios SF
Address: 355 11th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, US
Telephone: (415) 757-0994
Price range: $$$$

Two Michelin Star California Mexican Cuisine Californios is the creation of chef Val M. Cantu.

The goal is to create a new and interesting California Mexican cuisine. The dishes are not traditional, the flavors are unique and inspired, and the presentation is playful and beautiful.

06/04/2026

Our exploration of nopales continues with the foam of our newest cocktail. Typically, a foam is made using a hydrocolloid. For this one, chef Val suggested to pass cactus paddles through a juicer to extract the slimy green interior liquid. By putting it in a whipped cream canister, the result is 100% pure nopales espuma that is fresh and grassy. With a Yerena Farms Strawberry x Tapatio Tequila base and a green strawberry tajin rim, La Chica Fresa tastes like summer.

This cocktail was first created for the Iron Shaker Cocktail competition in Napa. Daní has continued to develop and evolve the recipe, paying homage to California Nopales, Fresas, and Sunshine. Salud.

05/20/2026

Triple Delight Blueberries are the star of our current empanada. Triple Delight is a six-generation California Family Farm located in Fresno, famed for their delicious and concentrated blueberries.

We encourage you to visit Triple Delight on your next visit to the Ferry Building Farmers Market and then stop by Californios to experience how we transform their luscious berries in our dessert course.

04/23/2026

As we prepared to reopen in our current location, Louis walked through the doors of Californios with his sleeves rolled up to apply for the position of a humble back waiter. Through countless services, he out-worked everyone around him and rose to the role of General Manager.

On the ground, he is fearless: running food, clearing plates, touring guests. His warmth and passion shows how at home he is in the hospitality industry, where he has spent his entire professional career.

Behind the scenes, he is a positive force who takes a holistic approach to leadership. In the last few years, Louis has unified the Californios team and rallied our passion for culture and service.

His visionary and thoughtful approach to hospitality has shaped Californios into the institution it is today. Cheers to 5 years!

Thank you & for photos!

04/22/2026

Service starts at 5pm.

Our dining room team has already set the stage. Table clothes and napkins ironed to sharp points.

The team is focused on hospitality. On welcoming guests into our home.

Service requires constant movement and energy to transport the plates from the pass.

Their dedication to the craft of hospitality elevates our cuisine.

By sharing the stories of our farmers and purveyors, they weave the story of Californios into our service.

We are grateful for the hands of our dining room team and for the genuine hospitality that they share with our guests.

11/10/2025

Us Against The World.

04/22/2025

This Earth Day we are proud to present Californios’ Sustainability Pledge. This pledge is a promise to our guests, and more importantly to ourselves that what we do in our restaurant has value and meaning.

Sourcing our cuisine from as locally as possible makes our experience completely unique. Our job is to enhance the already amazing ingredients that our local farmers and purveyors provide to us.

Minimizing waste is something that any good kitchen practices. But post processing is just as important.

Sustainability is also important in context of our team. If we don’t treat each other with respect in the kitchen, there will be no one to carry on this legacy. By creating a Professional kitchen, we encourage the next generation of chefs.

Lastly having a real impact in our community gives meaning to our work and to our lives. It is not enough to just source good ingredients. A wise chef once reminded me that, All ingredients come from a farm. Californios has put in work to raise money for causes that we believe in, including Meals on Wheels and LA Fire Relief.

We are glad to share these pledges and hope that other organizations will use this as framework for their own sustainable future.
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03/09/2025

Celebrating the Women that make Californios so special!

We are thankful to have these incredible Women leading our team!

03/07/2025

An incredible showing from the Californios, Restaurant Nisei, and Bar Iris teams at our ‘Carlito’s Fish Tacos’ pop up, benefiting LA Fire Relief. We are so proud to have raised over $10,000.00 dollars to help hospitality professionals affected by the LA Fires, via Restaurants Care!

Thank you to everyone who donated their time and effort, and to all our friends our supported us. Thank you so much to our purveyors for sponsoring our efforts, Four Star Seafood, Monterrey Fish Market, Suntory Global Spirits, and American Unagi!

We are dedicated to taking an active role in our community and making real contributions to our local environment.
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02/13/2025

We wanted to take a moment to highlight our Pastry Chef at Californios, Kelli Huerta.

Kelli has been a part of our team since we reopened in our 11th Street space, in 2021. Although her background was in pastry, when she started at Californios there was not room on our pastry team, so she decided to work her way through our savory line. As a young chef, she showed an incredible amount of determination and grit as she learned many skills and proved herself on our hotline.

She has since taken control of the pastry program at Californios and has done an amazing job focusing on the Mexican flavors that she grew up with.

We are so glad to have her as a leader on our team and hope that you are able to try some of her creations at Californios!

02/03/2025

Only a Few Tables Remain for Our Collaboration at Californios with Restaurant Fauna This Week!

February 5th and 6th, 2025 at Californios

Californios is honored to welcome Chef David Castro Hussong and his partner Maribel Aldaco, of Restaurant Fauna, to Californios for a continuation of The Best Mexican Chefs in the World collaboration series! We are proud to partner with Reserva de la Familia, rooted in more than 250 years of Tequila tradition and the official Tequila partner of the Michelin Guide U.S., and the 1 Hotel San Francisco to welcome these amazing chefs!

The chefs and their team will be at Californios for two nights only, sharing their unique vision of Mexican cuisine. We hope you can join us for this once in a lifetime experience!

Chef David Castro Hussong and pastry chef Maribel Aldaco Silva opened Fauna in 2017 after working and travelling around the world. Castro was born and raised in Ensenada and had always dreamed that one day he’d pay homage to the ingredients of his hometown and its surrounding region. Today, the couple creates daily-changing experimental menus using exclusively seasonal and local ingredients.

Fauna is currently listed as the No.17 Best Restaurant in Latin America by the World’s 50 Best. In 2023, Maribel was named the Best Pastry Chef in Latin America!

Together they operate several MICHELIN Guide U.S. Recognized restaurants including El Tigre Silencio in Ciudad Mexico and Bruma Wine Garden in Valle de Guadalupe.

*Limited Dietary accommodations can be made for this dinner.*

We are so thrilled to host these amazing chefs at Californios and hope you are able to join us!

11/20/2024

Sometimes you just need a martini. 🍸

Our Californios Martini is the perfect balance of dirty, smoky, and ice cold. Served with three habanero olives and finished with a chile morita oil, it may be the best martini of all time.

We hope to see you soon. ¡Salud!
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10/03/2024

🥂💀✨We are very excited to announce our Día De Mu***os party, celebrating the release of our Single Barrel Tequila with El Tesoro!

Last May, Chef Val and Louis Pedroza were invited to travel to Guadalajara to select a single barrel of Tequila from El Tesoro’s legendary distillery.

After a private tour with El Tesoro Heiress and operator, Jenny Camarena, they were able to taste through many different tequilas and selected a beautiful and complex barrel of Tequila to be imported, only for Californios.

We are excited to welcome Jenny to Californios for this incredibly special celebration.

Tuesday, October 22nd!
This will be unlike any other Californios event - we will have mariachis, live music, face painting artists, canapés, cocktails, and caviar from Tsar Nicoulai!

There will be no seated courses and each guest will receive three drink tickets and be able to sample different expressions of El Tesoro.

Each guest will receive one bottle of our Californios El Tesoro barrel, included in the ticket price! 🥂💀✨

Address

355 11th Street
San Francisco, CA
94103

Opening Hours

Tuesday	5:30pm - 10pm
Wednesday	5:30pm - 10pm
Thursday	5:30pm - 10pm
Friday	5:30pm - 10pm
Saturday	5:30pm - 10pm

Telephone

(415) 757-0994

Website

http://CaliforniosSF.com/

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