Contemporary Californian
The neighborhood's grand room — a Michelin Guide dining room, a 3,500-selection wine list, and a café that quietly runs all day.
On Sacramento Street
Spruce announces itself quietly — a low brown awning against yellow brick, a handful of bistro chairs on the sidewalk, and a window that shows you the dining room and the street at the same time. Inside that reflection: white linen, shaded lamps, and the leather chairs the room is known for.
3640 Sacramento Street · Presidio Heights
The Restaurant
Spruce occupies a converted 1930s auto showroom on Sacramento Street, and it still feels like a room built for arrival — mohair walls, towering floral arrangements, leather chairs, and an art collection worth slowing down for. It has been Presidio Heights' special-occasion restaurant since it opened, and it wears the role easily.
Chef Mark Sullivan's cooking is Californian in the truest sense: driven by what's best that week, plated with restraint, and sourced in large part from the restaurant group's own farm. The dining room runs on seasonal prix-fixe menus at dinner, with lighter à la carte-style service at lunch and weekend brunch.
The wine program is the other reason people make the trip — one of the most ambitious lists in the country, with over 3,500 selections, a vast spirits library, and a bar team that takes classic cocktails seriously. The adjoining café is the low-key counterpart: coffee, pastries, sandwiches, and a glass of wine, all day, no reservation.
The Menus
Spruce runs distinct menus for dinner, lunch, brunch, and the bar & lounge, all rewritten with the season. Recent pricing is noted below; confirm current menus when you book.
Menus are seasonal and prix-fixe pricing has changed over time; the figures above reflect recent published pricing. See sprucesf.com/menu for the current menus before booking.
Specials & Standing Offers
The most underused thing on Sacramento Street: Spruce-quality coffee, pastries, and sandwiches with no reservation and no ceremony.
Walk-in seats at the bar with their own à la carte menu — the way to experience the room without committing to the prix fixe.
Over 3,500 selections. Tell the sommelier a style and a number and let them work — it's what the list is built for.
The most accessible way into the dining room, at roughly half the dinner spend.
Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 2:30pm — the neighborhood's benchmark celebration brunch.
Private rooms for parties and business dinners. Contact events@sprucesf.com or call (415) 931-5115.
Know Before You Go
Weekend dinner reservations go well in advance, particularly around holidays. Weeknights are far easier, and the bar takes walk-ins.
There's no enforced dress code, but this is the neighborhood's grand room — most guests turn up smart-casual or better at dinner.
Because dinner is prix fixe, the kitchen wants advance notice for vegetarian, vegan, or allergy menus — and handles them well when given it.
Sacramento Street parking tightens after 6pm. Valet and nearby garages exist, but a rideshare on a Friday night saves fifteen minutes of circling.
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