points or member pricing at Palio, worth signing up?
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Italian restaurant in San Francisco, CA
4.4 · 499 reviewsOpens Tuesday at 11:30 AMOpens Tuesday at 11:30 AM
Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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What Palio offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
Palio lists 9 services on its website. Here's each one, with a plain description and how many reviews mention each.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Friday or Saturday, before 8 PM.
Busiest Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 to 8 PM.
Kapari Restaurant is next door for Mediterranean food. Sohunan of Henry's Hunan is next door for Chinese food. CHAPEL COFFEE is a 1 minute walk for coffee.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 19, 2026.
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.
Closed now. Busiest Tue and Wed, 6 to 8 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about Palio.
4.4from 499 reviews on Google
Palio is known for its wood-fired pizza and spacious dining areas, but customer service and food consistency are notable concerns. Palio offers a mix of vibrant dining experiences, from the inviting aroma of the wood-fired oven to spacious seating areas. However, customer experiences vary widely, with some enjoying the lively atmosphere while others report issues with service and seating arrangements.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
32 San Francisco avg
Signal and how much it countsPalio
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Palio, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Palio, and red ones hold it back.
Claiming your page is free.
The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Palio. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Italian restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 9, 2026.
Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 9, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Palio is an italian restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Italian restaurant |
| Address | 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sat 5 AM to 8 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (415) 395-9800 |
| Rating | 4.4 across 499 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Saturday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |
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 | 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 5:00 to 8:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Palio | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 395-9800 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 5:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Bakery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Buy out | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Campo del palio | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Drink | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Eat | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Event buyout | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Happy-hour deals | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Pizza | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Private dining | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Private dining menu | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Reserve | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | San pietro | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Tuscan-inspired food | AI guess | |
| Links | https://facebook.com/paliosf | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | http://www.paliosf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
These are the 9 services Palio offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy out | From their website | |||
| Private dining | From their website | |||
| Campo del palio | From their website | |||
| San pietro | From their website | |||
| Drink | From their website | |||
| Eat | From their website | |||
| Private dining menu | From their website | |||
| Reserve | From their website | |||
| Bakery | From their website |
Address: 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Phone: (415) 395-9800. Hours: Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sat 5 AM to 8 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals."
Quietest day: Saturday. Busiest day: Wednesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Towne Park | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| Tokyo Express Restaurant | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Kapari Restaurant | Mediterranean restaurant | 1 min walk |
| 550 California Street Garage | Parking garage | 1 min walk |
| Empire Park | Park | 1 min walk |
| Sohunan of Henry's Hunan | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk |
4.4 average across 499 reviews: Google 499. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)
Palio is known for its wood-fired pizza and spacious dining areas, but customer service and food consistency are notable concerns. (AI guess, from 499 reviews.)
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. Palio scores 25, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Palio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | 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 | 39 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 79 | 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 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | ||
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 74 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |
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
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| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Palio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palio | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.paliosf.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city | City Palio 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 |
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.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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Title, description, canonical, robots and Open Graph tags. This is what shows in search results and link previews.
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One connected graph. Every person and service has its own @id and links to the business, and a licensed person links to the license and the board that issued it.
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# Palio, San Francisco CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/palio-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/palio-san-francisco-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Palio is an italian restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Italian restaurant | | Address | 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sat 5 AM to 8 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | (415) 395-9800 | | Rating | 4.4 across 499 reviews on Google | | Quietest time | Saturday | | 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 | 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 5:00 to 8:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Palio | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (415) 395-9800 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 5:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Bakery | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Buy out | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Campo del palio | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Drink | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Eat | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Event buyout | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Happy-hour deals | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Pizza | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Private dining | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Private dining menu | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Reserve | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | San pietro | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Tuscan-inspired food | AI guess | | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/paliosf | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://www.paliosf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices These are the 9 services Palio offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Buy out | | | | From their website | | Private dining | | | | From their website | | Campo del palio | | | | From their website | | San pietro | | | | From their website | | Drink | | | | From their website | | Eat | | | | From their website | | Private dining menu | | | | From their website | | Reserve | | | | From their website | | Bakery | | | | From their website | ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Palio Address: 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Phone: (415) 395-9800. Hours: Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sat 5 AM to 8 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals." ### When to go Quietest day: Saturday. Busiest day: Wednesday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Towne Park | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Tokyo Express Restaurant | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk | | Kapari Restaurant | Mediterranean restaurant | 1 min walk | | 550 California Street Garage | Parking garage | 1 min walk | | Empire Park | Park | 1 min walk | | Sohunan of Henry's Hunan | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.4 average across 499 reviews: Google 499. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.) Palio is known for its wood-fired pizza and spacious dining areas, but customer service and food consistency are notable concerns. (AI guess, from 499 reviews.) ### What people like - Wood-fired pizza - Caprese and Insalata Romana appetizers - Tagliolini and Sea Bass dishes - Aperol Spritz - Wedding reception service ### What people do not like - Rude front desk staff - Slow and unorganized service - Inconsistent food quality - Cold or undercooked dishes ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### points or member pricing at Palio, worth signing up? ### Do they post anywhere? ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? ### best italian restaurant in San Francisco ### walk in at Palio in San Francisco, or is it appointment only? ### address for this place, anyone have it? ### which one, this place or Cotogna? ### what time does this place actually open? ### Sundays at Palio, are they open? ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves ### the good stuff about Palio, what is it? ### when is this place actually dead? ### going rate for restaurants locally, any idea ### anywhere cheaper than Palio in San Francisco that is still good? ### rough idea what Palio costs? ### same day tables, does that ever happen here ### people keep recommending Palio, what for? ## The AI Score: 25 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. Palio scores 25, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Palio | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | 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 | 39 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 79 | 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 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 74 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | 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 Palio | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Palio | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.paliosf.com/ | Subject of this page | | San Francisco, California | City | #city | | City Palio 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:ChIJkdko-oqAhYARt4ZpvCrKkao (accessed Sep 9, 2026) - [2] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/bakery (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/buy-out (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/campo-del-palio (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/drink (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/eat (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/private-dining-2 (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [8] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/private-dining-menu (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [9] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/visit (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [10] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/san-pietro (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [11] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Italian restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Palio, San Francisco CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 9, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 9, 2026 · Updated September 9, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Palio is an italian restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Italian restaurant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sat 5 AM to 8 PM · Closed Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 395-9800</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.4 across 499 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Saturday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 9, 2026</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Sat 5:00 to 8:00 PM · Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Palio</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 395-9800</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>5:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Bakery</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Buy out</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Campo del palio</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Drink</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Eat</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Event buyout</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Happy-hour deals</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Pizza</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Private dining</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Private dining menu</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Reserve</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>San pietro</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Tuscan-inspired food</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/paliosf</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>http://www.paliosf.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 9 services Palio offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Service</th><th scope="col">Price</th><th scope="col">Price mark</th><th scope="col">Price evidence</th><th scope="col">Service mark</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Buy out</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Private dining</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Campo del palio</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>San pietro</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Drink</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Eat</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Private dining menu</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reserve</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bakery</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-palio">
<h3>Visiting Palio</h3>
<p>Address: 640 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Phone: (415) 395-9800. Hours: Mon to Fri 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Sat 5 AM to 8 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Chic Italian eatery featuring Tuscan-inspired food & decor, plus renowned pizza happy-hour deals."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Saturday. Busiest day: Wednesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Towne Park</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tokyo Express Restaurant</td><td>Japanese restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Kapari Restaurant</td><td>Mediterranean restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>550 California Street Garage</td><td>Parking garage</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Empire Park</td><td>Park</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sohunan of Henry's Hunan</td><td>Chinese restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.4 average across 499 reviews: Google 499. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)</p>
<p>Palio is known for its wood-fired pizza and spacious dining areas, but customer service and food consistency are notable concerns. (AI guess, from 499 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Wood-fired pizza</li>
<li>Caprese and Insalata Romana appetizers</li>
<li>Tagliolini and Sea Bass dishes</li>
<li>Aperol Spritz</li>
<li>Wedding reception service</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rude front desk staff</li>
<li>Slow and unorganized service</li>
<li>Inconsistent food quality</li>
<li>Cold or undercooked dishes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>points or member pricing at Palio, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>Do they post anywhere?</h4>
<h4>Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?</h4>
<h4>best italian restaurant in San Francisco</h4>
<h4>walk in at Palio in San Francisco, or is it appointment only?</h4>
<h4>address for this place, anyone have it?</h4>
<h4>which one, this place or Cotogna?</h4>
<h4>what time does this place actually open?</h4>
<h4>Sundays at Palio, are they open?</h4>
<h4>anyone tell me what a first visit here involves</h4>
<h4>the good stuff about Palio, what is it?</h4>
<h4>when is this place actually dead?</h4>
<h4>going rate for restaurants locally, any idea</h4>
<h4>anywhere cheaper than Palio in San Francisco that is still good?</h4>
<h4>rough idea what Palio costs?</h4>
<h4>same day tables, does that ever happen here</h4>
<h4>people keep recommending Palio, what for?</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 25 of 100</h3>
<p>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. Palio scores 25, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Palio</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>0</td><td>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.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>39</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>79</td><td>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.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>56</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td></td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>74</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>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</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Palio</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Palio</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>http://www.paliosf.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Francisco, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Palio is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best italian restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/italian-restaurant</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
<li>/santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJkdko-oqAhYARt4ZpvCrKkao (accessed Sep 9, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/bakery (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/buy-out (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[4] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/campo-del-palio (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[5] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/drink (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[6] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/eat (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[7] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/private-dining-2 (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[8] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/private-dining-menu (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[9] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/visit (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[10] paliosf.com, https://www.paliosf.com/san-pietro (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[11] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
</article>
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