The Price Is Set Before the Window Opens
Fall SF Restaurant Week runs Friday, October 16 through Sunday, October 25, 2026. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association publishes the menu prices before the window opens. Midday menus of two or more items sit at $15, $25, $35 or $45. Dinner menus of three or more items sit at $30, $45, $60, $75 or $90.
A buyer who wants to move the number is pushing on the one term the programme sets for every kitchen on the roster. Inclusion, service format and timing stay open.
What the Ladder Leaves Open
The organiser publishes an ideas list for kitchens that do not build courses. Three entries on it matter to a buyer. A kitchen can offer lunch or dinner for two. It can offer meal kits. It can offer beverage pairings, either inside the cost of the menu or as supplemental items.
The pairing line is the widest opening on the page. A pairing can sit inside the fixed price or beside it. A buyer who asks to fold a pairing into a $45 dinner asks for something the organiser already lists as an option.
The same FAQ reads: "Any deals or special offers are welcome and encouraged during SF Restaurant Week." It also covers the kitchen that already runs a prix-fixe menu at another price point. The programme invites that kitchen to build in something special, and it names a discount or a special menu item available only during the week.
Four Service Formats, Three Ways to Book
The programme is open to any San Francisco restaurant offering outdoor dining, indoor dining, takeout, delivery or a combination. The roster carries 173 entries listing indoor dining, 81 listing outdoor dining, 31 listing takeout and 15 listing delivery. Every delivery entry also lists takeout.
The roster holds 177 entries across 42 neighbourhood labels and 34 cuisine types. Seven entries sit outside the city under six labels: Burlingame carries two, and Concord, Cupertino, San Jose, Sausalito and Treasure Island carry one each.
The booking control on each row shows a buyer where the first conversation happens. Of the 177 entries, 135 route the control to an outside booking service: OpenTable 122, Resy 6, Google Reserve 2, Tock 2, Yelp 1, SevenRooms 1 and DoorDash 1. Fifteen route the control to a page the venue owns. Twenty-seven publish no booking control.
Those 27 rows need a call. No page on the site publishes a party-size limit, a deposit term or a service charge rule.
Two Bands, One Number in Both
The two bands list nine prices. The requirements paragraph calls them ten price points. Eight amounts are distinct, because $45 sits in the midday band and in the dinner band.
That overlap is worth one question. A $45 midday menu carries two or more items. A $45 dinner menu carries three or more. At $45 the band decides the course count.
The roster shows where the bands sit. Ninety-seven entries carry a midday band and 157 carry a dinner band. Seventy-seven entries carry both, and 80 run dinner only. Six entries reach the $15 floor. Fifteen reach the $90 ceiling, and Astra at The St. Regis San Francisco is among them with a $45 brunch and a $90 dinner.
What to Ask For Beyond the Listed Price
The programme sets the amounts. Inclusion is the term a buyer can move.
hotelhaggle's negotiation guide carries the same logic for room rates. It names the asks that survive a held rate: complimentary breakfast, waived resort fees, free parking, suite upgrades and flexible cancellation terms. A restaurant version of that list is an extra course, a pairing folded into the price, a meal kit for a guest who leaves early, or a hold on a table through a service window.
Three questions cover most of the ground. Which band does this entry run, midday or dinner? Does the kitchen offer the menu for takeout or delivery? Does the kitchen offer a beverage pairing, and does the pairing sit inside the price or beside it?
The organiser supplies a fourth. Kitchens are asked to hold the menu through the ten days inside their own opening hours. The FAQ tells a kitchen that will not run the menu on weekends to contact every weekend reservation holder. A buyer holding a weekend table can ask for that notice in writing.
The Deadline, the Roster and the Weekend Line
Registration, menu and photo submissions closed on Monday, September 28, 2026. A participating restaurant must hold current Golden Gate Restaurant Association membership. Every menu must carry the Restaurant Week logo. No restaurant is required to use OpenTable to take part.
Read the roster as a spring view of the same programme. The About page links it as the Spring 2026 participants and states the Fall 2026 list would be available October 2. Confirm the kitchen before a table is held.
The organiser tells kitchens that many diners make their reservations for the weekends. A party chasing a weekend table inside a ten-day window has that line to work against.
Questions go to ggra@ggra.org. For the room side of the same trip, hotelhaggle runs the name-your-price route: one request to 50 or more hotels, responses in 24 to 72 hours, free to submit and no obligation to accept. The platform serves the United States excluding California, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Washington, and it publishes the seller-of-travel requirement behind each exclusion.
