# Souvla, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/souvla-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/souvla-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Souvla is a greek restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 61 of 100, which is fair.

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


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Greek restaurant |
| Address | 517 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (415) 570-6500 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 2,364 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Monday |
| 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 | 517 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Hip haunt featuring roasted meat sandwiches & salads, plus Greek yogurt, beer & wine. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Souvla | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 570-6500 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Beer | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Catering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Greek yogurt | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Marin county mart | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menus | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Nopa | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Roasted meat sandwiches | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Salads | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | View all | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Wine | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/souvla | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/souvla | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@thisissouvla | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.souvla.com/location/hayes-valley/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 5 services Souvla offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marin county mart |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menus |  |  |  | From their website |
| Nopa |  |  |  | From their website |
| View all |  |  |  | From their website |
| Catering |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Souvla

Address: 517 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. Phone: (415) 570-6500. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Hip haunt featuring roasted meat sandwiches & salads, plus Greek yogurt, beer & wine."


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Patxi's Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Hazie's | American restaurant | 1 min walk |
| La Boulangerie de San Francisco | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| Patricia’s Green In Hayes Valley Park | City park | 1 min walk |
| Sforno Pizzeria Napoletana | Italian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Ritual Coffee Roasters | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 2,364 reviews: Google 2,364. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

Souvla is known for its frozen yogurt and wraps, but many reviews highlight significant issues with service and food quality. (AI guess, from 2,364 reviews.)


### What people like

- Frozen yogurt with baklava
- Rotisserie chicken wrap
- Lamb pita
- Greek fries


### What people do not like

- Service is often slow or unresponsive
- Orders frequently incorrect
- Food quality inconsistent, especially chicken
- Staff interactions can be rude


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### killing time on Hayes, any ideas


### trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet


### anything new here lately?


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### best greek restaurant in San Francisco


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


### pricey at Souvla, or about normal?


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### same day tables, does that ever happen here


### anyone been to both here and The Parthenon?


### Are the hours on Google right for Souvla in San Francisco?


### people keep recommending this place, what for?


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### anywhere cheaper than Souvla in San Francisco that is still good?


### membership, worth it or not


### where exactly is Souvla?


## The AI Score: 61 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco greek restaurants run 52 to 64. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Souvla scores 61, above the San Francisco average of 60. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Souvla |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | 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. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | 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 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | 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 | 42 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| 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 a greek 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 Souvla |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Souvla | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.souvla.com/location/hayes-valley/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Souvla 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 greek restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best greek restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/greek-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:ChIJbTB3bKKAhYAR8Yqc6dEIMbQ (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] souvla.com, https://www.souvla.com/location/souvla-nopa/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] souvla.com, https://www.souvla.com/catering/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] souvla.com, https://www.souvla.com/view-all-locations/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] souvla.com, https://www.souvla.com/location/marin-country-mart/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] souvla.com, https://www.souvla.com/menus/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)