San Francisco’s Most Dangerous Restaurants

Illustration by Puja Saraiya Abid

About a year ago, we published an article highlighting some of the lowest-scoring restaurants in San Francisco on the basis of health scores. Now, using the publicly available data from the SF OpenData project — a free repository for civic data on the city of San Francisco — we’re updating the article and focusing on restaurants whose most recent health scores were released in 2016.

The table below highlights our results, cross-referenced with Yelp ratings:

San Francisco’s lowest-rated restaurants in terms of health score, on the basis of restaurants that were inspected in 2016.

The standouts on this list are beloved B Star and the ever-popular Marina brunch restaurant Home Plate. You’ll be hard-pressed to find an evening when there isn’t a significant pour-over crowd from Burma Superstar into B Star.

If you’re daring enough to learn the specifics about why these restaurants are so poorly rated, have a look at the table below for some of the violations they incurred:

In all fairness to these restaurants, they are (probably) aware of these violations and will have an opportunity to correct them. In the meantime, you can make up your own mind.