# Cotogna, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/cotogna-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/cotogna-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Cotogna is an italian restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 45 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Italian restaurant |
| Address | 490 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Tue 4:30 AM to 9 PM · Wed to Thu 11:30 AM to 9 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (415) 775-8508 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 2,267 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Thursday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 490 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Popular eatery serving spit-roasted and grilled meat & fish, wood-fired pizza and house-made pasta. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Tue 4:30 to 9:00 PM · Wed to Thu 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Mondays | 4:30 to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Cotogna | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 775-8508 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 4:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 4:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Grilled fish | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Grilled meat | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | House-made pasta | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Italian cuisine | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Spit-roasted meat | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Wood-fired pizza | AI guess |  |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/cotogna_sf | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Website | http://cotognasf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Cotogna

Address: 490 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA. Phone: (415) 775-8508. Hours: Mon to Tue 4:30 AM to 9 PM · Wed to Thu 11:30 AM to 9 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Popular eatery serving spit-roasted and grilled meat & fish, wood-fired pizza and house-made pasta."


### When to go

Quietest day: Thursday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pacific Ave & Montgomery St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Blue Bottle Coffee | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Motorcycle Parking Metered | Parking | 1 min walk |
| Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| The Cigar Bar & Grill | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Bix | Fine dining restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 2,267 reviews: Google 2,267. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

Cotogna is known for its fresh pasta and vibrant atmosphere, but service inconsistencies and management issues have led to mixed reviews. (AI guess, from 2,267 reviews.)


### What people like

- Ravioli and pasta dishes
- Exceptional hospitality
- Fresh ingredients
- Creative menu
- Great wine and drinks list


### What people do not like

- Long waits for service
- Staff unresponsive during meals
- High corkage fees
- Inconsistent food quality


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 5 of the 24 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Groupon | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| OpenTable | Listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Tripadvisor | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Listed |


## Questions people ask


### torn between Cotogna and Sodini's Trattoria?


### where does this place post updates


### any last minute tables here?


### somewhere cheaper in San Francisco that is not a risk?


### Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in San Francisco?


### Are the hours on Google right for this place?


### walk in at Cotogna in San Francisco, or is it appointment only?


### address for this place, anyone have it?


### Coffee near Cotogna on Pacific?


### anything people actually moan about here?


### Worth the hype at Cotogna?


### best italian restaurant in San Francisco


### pricey at Cotogna, or about normal?


### do they shut Sundays


### Booking a first visit at Cotogna, what happens?


### quietest day to hit Cotogna?


### genuinely, what is good about this one


## The AI Score: 45 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco italian restaurants run 23 to 45. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Cotogna scores 45, above the San Francisco average of 30. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Cotogna |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 53 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 90 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 69 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 38 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 39 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an italian restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Cotogna |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cotogna | LocalBusiness | #business | http://cotognasf.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Cotogna is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the italian restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best italian restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/italian-restaurant
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJA0YvGPWAhYAReXmaDTTdWzU (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 5, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] cotognasf.com, http://cotognasf.com/ (accessed Oct 5, 2026)