Top 50 San Francisco restaurants to catch a cheating spouse

While there are numerous lists online about the best San Francisco restaurants, I’m pretty certain there has never been one quite like this.

We have been working cases in San Francisco for the past 48 years (as both Federal agents and private investigators), and last month we opened our fifth office location there.

We thought it would be interesting to list the restaurants where we have followed and performed surveillance jobs at the request of our clients.

These cases usually were marital surveillance jobs where we are hired to follow a spouse or significant other. Some of them were corporate cases where we followed a subject being disloyal to his or her employer.

In either case, the restaurants and eating establishments here are quite varied and unique. You’ll notice these individuals usually liked to patronize well-established restaurants, perhaps to impress those they have invited.

We’ve taken out common coffee shops (Starbucks) and chains (McDonalds), and attempted to remove places that are no longer around.

Here are the top 50+ restaurants that our surveillance reports have listed over these past many years. They are in alphabetical order, and all have received high marks from our investigative staff:

1. Acquerello
2. AQ Restaurant & Bar
3. Atelier Crenn
4. Aziza
5. Bar Agricole
6. Bar Tartine
7. Benu
8. Chapeau!
9. Chez Panisse
10. Coi
11. Commonwealth
12. Contigo
13. Cotogna
14. Darwin Cafe
15. Delfina/Pizzeria Delfina
16. Eiji
17. Fiore Caffe
18. Flour & Water
19. Foreign Cinema
20. Four Barrel Coffee/The Mill
21. Frances
22. Gary Danko
23. Green’s Restaurant
24. Humphry Slocombe
25. Keiko-A Nob Hill
26. Kiss Seafood
27. Kokkari Estiatorio
28. La Ciccia
29. L’Ardoise
30. La Taqueria
31. La Torta Gorda
32. Lers Ros Thai
33. Local’s Corner
34. Loló
35. Mandalay
36. Marlowe
37. Maven
38. Mission Beach Cafe
39. Mission Chinese Food
40. Namu Gaji
41. Nopalito
42. Nojo
43. Nopa
44. Old Mandarin Islamic
45. Park Tavern
46. Perbacco
47. Poc-Chuc
48. Poquito
49. Quince
50. Radius
51. Range
52. R&G Lounge
53. Rich Table
54. Saison
55. Seven Hills
56. Sons & Daughters
57. SPQR
58. State Bird Provisions
59. Super Duper Burgers
60. Swan Oyster Depot
61. The Blue Plate
62. The Cavalier
63. The French Laundry
64. Tony’s Pizza Napoletana
65. Yank Sing
66. Yuzuki
67. Zazie
68. Zuni Cafe