Rintaro

Japanese izakaya serving traditional menus in a hip, buzzy space decked in exposed woods.

A San Francisco izakaya in the Mission that has set the city's standard for Japanese cooking outside Japan—Sylvan Mishima Brackett's house-made soba, smoked duck, and grilled items drawing from his Japanese-American upbringing and years in Kyoto. One of the most important Japanese restaurants in the United States.