{"id":502593,"date":"2026-10-20T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502593\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:52:09","slug":"best-of-the-bay-2026-editors-pick-bosco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502593\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Bosco"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re celebrating\u00a0Best of the Bay 2026\u00a0<\/a>with a multitude of Editors\u2019 Picks of things we love.\u00a0Please join us at our 13th Annual Gala on October 27<\/a>\u00a0to celebrate even more!<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think that a 140-seat Italian restaurant in San Francisco could still feel so intimate; that the experience in a space of this size could feel so special, with handmade pastas prepared with such precision, seasonal ingredients expressed this naturally and cocktails that are memorable without overembellishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bosco<\/a> (888 Brannan, SF) opened in SOMA last year, taking over the old Bellota location attached to the Airbnb building. It\u2019s a full circle post for Executive Chef Ryan McIlwraith, who was at Bellota for six years and is now at the helm of Bosco\u2019s fantastic kitchen with his partner and co-chef Kaili Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Goat cheese and tomato scarpinocc<\/p>\n

My first visit to Bosco was a Tuesday night in the peak of tomato season and I ran into multiple groups of friends who had the same idea (major vibe points right from the jump.) I loved the goat cheese and tomato scarpinocc, a filled pasta that looks like a little divotted bon-bon. Lemon spaghetti mixed lemon oil into the pasta dough and was coated in a velvety Sungold sauce that captured the best notes of every ingredient. Meanwhile, the martini della casa, with tomato gin, Veso olive vermouth and basil, felt very of the summer moment and is delightfully (as its name suggests) not just a seasonal item.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The minute I opened the menu for the first time, I was already plotting my return visit to Bosco so I could explore further. I did just that on my next visit, with new fall menu items like honeynut squash caramelle, an even more ornate pasta bon-bon served over crisp sesame-praline with black sesame butter, and studded with pomegranate seeds. <\/p>\n

\"\"Honeynut squash caramelle<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t stop thinking about the oak and almond wood-fired grilled Wagyu Hanger Steak, with chanterelles in a red wine beef sauce, summer pole beans and a layered potato. I ordered the hamachi crudo with kumquat agrodolce, black garlic, charred avocado and chili crisp both times, because it expressed what I love about Californian produce in the best way possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlwraith and Hill are always at local farmer\u2019s markets, keeping up with peak seasonal produce on the regular. \u201cWe let Mother Nature do the work and it\u2019s easy from there,\u201d McIlwraith said. I love that sentiment and I love how freaking fun the Bosco experience is. This is a menu that will always be shapeshifting with the seasons and I can\u2019t wait to go back.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re celebrating\u00a0Best of the Bay 2026\u00a0with a multitude of Editors\u2019 Picks of things we love.\u00a0Please join us at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-502593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}