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CA · Lunch
A good lunch gets two hours of your afternoon back. A bad one costs three and you spend it wishing you'd eaten at your desk. Harry has done the triage so you don't have to.
The SF lunch window is short and the options are expensive. The correct strategy is the Mission burrito at eleven-thirty, before the line forms. The Vietnamese sandwich on Irving Street. The soup dumpling counter in the Richmond at noon. Everything in the Financial District is a performance for expense accounts.
| Time value | Lunch has one rule: you have to be back. Harry accounts for service speed — a venue that takes ninety minutes to get through a two-course set is a dinner restaurant wearing a lunch menu. Great food at the wrong pace is still a bad lunch. |
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| Harry Score | The composite score from Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor and critic signals — but weighted for lunch-appropriate venues. A Michelin-starred dinner restaurant that runs a mediocre midday service scores lower here than the counter spot that does one thing at lunch and does it perfectly. |
| Worth It score | Lunch should not cost dinner prices. Harry's Worth It score flags places that charge a reasonable amount for what they deliver — and flags the ones that decided a sandwich is worth twenty-eight dollars because it comes with a view of the open kitchen. |
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