There was a time when SF was the only destination for serious restaurant patrons. The city of culinary love at one point boasted more restaurants per capita than any other metropolitan area in the US.
No more, and there's a multitude of reasons.
For starters, some of the cities more prominent, (read: high-priced) restaurant owners seem to take customers for granted. No coincidence that a lot of those establishments are either closing, have closed, or have closed shop and moved across the bay to Oakland, which is in the midst of a restaurant boom in spite of the currant recession.
Plain and simply put, many of SF's restaurant owners take their customers for granted. Oh sure, there's the old standbys like Tadich Grill and House of Prime Rib, both of which have been in business almost a hundred years, only they are the exceptions.
The newer and more glitzier places near the waterfront and inside the some of the hotels, are getting their comeuppance. It's in the form of infinitely less patrons, a reduction of meals, (like lunch, for example,) and ultimately, closing at a record rate.
Overall, SF is still enjoying its well-deserved reputation as a foodie city and its myriad of dining spots is still robust, but competition and the cost of doing business is taking its toll.
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