San Francisco Restaurants Whose Chefs Have Written Cookbooks

The one, the only, the classic. Oysters are always on point here, as is the famous roast chicken and caesar salad.

All-around good dim sum, a little fancier than most.

We prefer to sit at the wine bar and split our way down the menu. It's a more casual, fun experience and you get to schmooze with the staff.

Chef Cosentino has been on all the competition shows, and won the most recent season of Top Chef Masters.

Still got it after all these years. I actively crave the crab cellophane noodles.

Chef Charles Phan competed against Iron Chef Cat Cora in season 7 of Iron Chef America.

If you don't dig spicy, don't even walk within a block of this place. The ma po tofu will blow your head off.

Yigit Pura's cookbook, Sweet Alchemy, comes out in Fall 2013.