# The Anchovy Bar, San Francisco CA: Reviews

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

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## In short

The Anchovy Bar is a californian restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.

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


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Californian restaurant |
| Address | 1740 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 5 AM to 9 PM |
| Phone | (415) 796-2710 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 451 reviews on Google |
| 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 | 1740 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Beer, refined seafood dishes & desserts at a laid-back place with sidewalk seating. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 5:00 to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Mondays | 5:00 to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Anchovy Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 796-2710 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Beer | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Desserts | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Group dining | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Groupdining | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Groupdiningform | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Reservations | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Reservations progress | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Reservations state bird | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Seafood dishes | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Sidewalk seating | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Work | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/theanchovybar | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | http://www.theanchovybar.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 6 services The Anchovy offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Groupdining |  |  |  | From their website |
| Work |  |  |  | From their website |
| Groupdiningform |  |  |  | From their website |
| Reservations |  |  |  | From their website |
| Reservations progress |  |  |  | From their website |
| Reservations state bird |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting The Anchovy

Address: 1740 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. Phone: (415) 796-2710. Hours: Mon to Sun 5 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Beer, refined seafood dishes & desserts at a laid-back place with sidewalk seating."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| I’a poke | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Fillmore St & O'Farrell St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Fillmore St & O'Farrell St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Wise Sons Jewish Deli Fillmore Street | Deli | 1 min walk |
| Boba Guys Fillmore | Tea house | 1 min walk |
| Fillmore St & O'Farrell St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 451 reviews: Google 451. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

The Anchovy Bar is known for its unique anchovy-focused menu, but some diners find the prices and portion sizes disappointing. (AI guess, from 451 reviews.)


### What people like

- Anchovy toast
- Fried anchovies
- Chicken schnitzel
- Seasonal seafood dishes
- Thoughtful menu


### What people do not like

- High prices for small portions
- Long waits for food
- Unresponsive reservation system
- Pressure to order quickly
- Inconsistent food quality


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### bad experiences at The Anchovy, anyone?


### how much is a first visit around here


### best californian restaurant in San Francisco


### genuinely, what is good about this one


### people keep recommending The Anchovy, what for?


### opening hours here, what are they these days?


### points or member pricing at The Anchovy, worth signing up?


### Do they post anywhere?


### Booking at The Anchovy in San Francisco, how does it work?


### lunch near O Farrell, what is good


### pricey at The Anchovy, or about normal?


### The Anchovy, any chance to get a table this week?


### where exactly is this place?


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


### torn between The Anchovy and ATWater Tavern?


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


## The AI Score: 26 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco californian restaurants run 25 to 31. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Anchovy scores 26, below the San Francisco average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Anchovy |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| 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 | 68 | 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 |  | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

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

How AI decides what to say about a californian 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 The Anchovy |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Anchovy Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.theanchovybar.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City The Anchovy 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 californian restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best californian restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/californian-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:ChIJN1jrY56BhYAROCDrviZM73k (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] theanchovybar.com, https://www.theanchovybar.com/work (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] theanchovybar.com, https://www.theanchovybar.com/groupdining (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] theanchovybar.com, https://www.theanchovybar.com/groupdiningform (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] theanchovybar.com, https://www.theanchovybar.com/reservations (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] theanchovybar.com, https://www.theanchovybar.com/reservations-progress (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] theanchovybar.com, https://www.theanchovybar.com/reservations-state-bird (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [8] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)