Busiest day here, anyone know?
Question · by autumn_runner_west · Member since Jul 2026 · 75 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
American restaurant in San Francisco, CA
4.4 · 5,068 reviewsOpens today at 7 AMOpens today at 7 AM
Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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Updated Sep 9, 2026Last activity 1 month ago, a question from autumn_runner_west.
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What The Grove offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
The Grove lists 4 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.
Saturday or Sunday, before 8 AM.
Busiest Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 AM to 9 PM.
Oren's Hummus is next door for israeli food. Astra at the st. Regis San Francisco is a 1 minute walk for a restaurant.
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, 11 AM to 9 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about The Grove.
4.4from 5,068 reviews on Google
The Grove is known for its casual setup and specific dishes like the chicken pot pie, but suffers from inconsistent service and food quality. The Grove Restaurant & Bar presents a casual, cafeteria-style dining experience where customers order at the counter and find their own seats. While some enjoy the efficiency, others find the service lacking and the atmosphere uninviting, particularly when faced with issues like unacknowledged orders and cold food.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
32 San Francisco avg
Signal and how much it countsThe Grove
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
The Grove, as AI sees it. Blue signals help The Grove, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about The Grove. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · American 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
The Grove Restaurant & Bar is an american restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 27 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | American restaurant |
| Address | 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 7 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (415) 655-9194 |
| Rating | 4.4 across 5,068 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| 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 | 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Grove Restaurant & Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 655-9194 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | American home cooking | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Catering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dining | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Live music | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menus | From their website | Business website |
| Links | https://facebook.com/thegrovesf | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | https://instagram.com/thegrovesf | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | https://www.thegrovesf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
These are the 4 services The Grove offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live music | From their website | |||
| Catering | From their website | |||
| Dining | From their website | |||
| Menus | From their website |
Address: 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. Phone: (415) 655-9194. Hours: Mon to Sun 7 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats."
Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tower Valet Parking Inc. | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| 3rd St & Mission St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Mission St & 3rd St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Oren's Hummus | Israeli restaurant | 1 min walk |
| 3rd St & Mission St / Moscone Center | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Mission St & 3rd St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
4.4 average across 5,068 reviews: Google 5,068. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)
The Grove is known for its casual setup and specific dishes like the chicken pot pie, but suffers from inconsistent service and food quality. (AI guess, from 5,068 reviews.)
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco american restaurants run 24 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Grove scores 27, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Grove |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 87 | 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 | 58 | 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 | 96 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 43 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about an american 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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|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Grove Restaurant & Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.thegrovesf.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city | City The Grove 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 american 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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# The Grove Restaurant & Bar, San Francisco CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/the-grove-restaurant-and-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-grove-restaurant-and-bar-san-francisco-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short The Grove Restaurant & Bar is an american restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 27 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | American restaurant | | Address | 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 7 AM to 10 PM | | Phone | (415) 655-9194 | | Rating | 4.4 across 5,068 reviews on Google | | Quietest time | Sunday | | 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 | 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | The Grove Restaurant & Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (415) 655-9194 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | American home cooking | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Catering | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Dining | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Live music | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Menus | From their website | Business website | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/thegrovesf | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/thegrovesf | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.thegrovesf.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices These are the 4 services The Grove offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Live music | | | | From their website | | Catering | | | | From their website | | Dining | | | | From their website | | Menus | | | | 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 The Grove Address: 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. Phone: (415) 655-9194. Hours: Mon to Sun 7 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats." ### When to go Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. 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 | | --- | --- | --- | | Tower Valet Parking Inc. | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | 3rd St & Mission St | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Mission St & 3rd St | Transit station | 1 min walk | | Oren's Hummus | Israeli restaurant | 1 min walk | | 3rd St & Mission St / Moscone Center | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Mission St & 3rd St | Bus stop | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.4 average across 5,068 reviews: Google 5,068. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.) The Grove is known for its casual setup and specific dishes like the chicken pot pie, but suffers from inconsistent service and food quality. (AI guess, from 5,068 reviews.) ### What people like - Chicken pot pie - Berkeley Bowl with tuna salad - Breakfast burrito - Pastrami sandwich ### What people do not like - Long waits for food - Cold or poorly prepared meals - Rude or unresponsive staff - Unpleasant customer service experiences ### 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 ### Busiest day here, anyone know? ### best american restaurant in San Francisco ### Why do people rate The Grove? ### torn between this place and Wayfare Tavern for Dependable American cuisine and catering? ### where does this place post updates ### address for The Grove, anyone have it? ### bad experiences at The Grove, anyone? ### Any membership pricing here? ### Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in San Francisco? ### Coffee near The Grove on Mission? ### cheaper than The Grove in San Francisco without it being sketchy? ### opening hours at The Grove in San Francisco, what are they these days? ### Worth the hype here? ### What american restaurant questions is San Francisco asking AI most? ### rough idea what The Grove costs? ### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves ### same day tables, does that ever happen here ## The AI Score: 27 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco american restaurants run 24 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Grove scores 27, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Grove | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 87 | 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 | 58 | 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 | 96 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 43 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about an american 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 Grove | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | The Grove Restaurant & Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.thegrovesf.com/ | Subject of this page | | San Francisco, California | City | #city | | City The Grove 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 american restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best american restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/american-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:ChIJiZyN7IeAhYARnCn-G6GH73Q (accessed Sep 9, 2026) - [2] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/catering (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/dining (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/live-music (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/menu (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 11, 2026; 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 · American restaurants in San Francisco, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>The Grove Restaurant & Bar, 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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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>The Grove Restaurant & Bar is an american restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 27 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<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>American restaurant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 7 AM to 10 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 655-9194</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.4 across 5,068 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Sunday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 9, 2026</td></tr>
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<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>
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<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>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>The Grove Restaurant & Bar</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(415) 655-9194</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>7:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>American home cooking</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Catering</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Dining</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Live music</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Menus</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/thegrovesf</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Instagram</td><td>https://instagram.com/thegrovesf</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.thegrovesf.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 4 services The Grove offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
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<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>
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<tr><td>Live music</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Catering</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dining</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Menus</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
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<h4>Known for</h4>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-the-grove">
<h3>Visiting The Grove</h3>
<p>Address: 690 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. Phone: (415) 655-9194. Hours: Mon to Sun 7 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Popular spot for American home cooking in a mountain-lodge-like setting with communal seats."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Tower Valet Parking Inc.</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>3rd St & Mission St</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mission St & 3rd St</td><td>Transit station</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oren's Hummus</td><td>Israeli restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>3rd St & Mission St / Moscone Center</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mission St & 3rd St</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
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</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.4 average across 5,068 reviews: Google 5,068. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)</p>
<p>The Grove is known for its casual setup and specific dishes like the chicken pot pie, but suffers from inconsistent service and food quality. (AI guess, from 5,068 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chicken pot pie</li>
<li>Berkeley Bowl with tuna salad</li>
<li>Breakfast burrito</li>
<li>Pastrami sandwich</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
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<li>Long waits for food</li>
<li>Cold or poorly prepared meals</li>
<li>Rude or unresponsive staff</li>
<li>Unpleasant customer service experiences</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
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<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>Busiest day here, anyone know?</h4>
<h4>best american restaurant in San Francisco</h4>
<h4>Why do people rate The Grove?</h4>
<h4>torn between this place and Wayfare Tavern for Dependable American cuisine and catering?</h4>
<h4>where does this place post updates</h4>
<h4>address for The Grove, anyone have it?</h4>
<h4>bad experiences at The Grove, anyone?</h4>
<h4>Any membership pricing here?</h4>
<h4>Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in San Francisco?</h4>
<h4>Coffee near The Grove on Mission?</h4>
<h4>cheaper than The Grove in San Francisco without it being sketchy?</h4>
<h4>opening hours at The Grove in San Francisco, what are they these days?</h4>
<h4>Worth the hype here?</h4>
<h4>What american restaurant questions is San Francisco asking AI most?</h4>
<h4>rough idea what The Grove costs?</h4>
<h4>anyone tell me what a first visit here involves</h4>
<h4>same day tables, does that ever happen here</h4>
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<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 27 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco american restaurants run 24 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Grove scores 27, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<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">The Grove</th></tr></thead>
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<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>41</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>87</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>58</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>96</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>43</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
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<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about an american 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>
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<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>
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<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 The Grove</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>The Grove Restaurant & Bar</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.thegrovesf.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 The Grove 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>
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<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the american restaurants in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best american restaurants in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/american-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>
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<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJiZyN7IeAhYARnCn-G6GH73Q (accessed Sep 9, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/catering (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/dining (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[4] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/live-music (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[5] thegrovesf.com, https://www.thegrovesf.com/menu (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[6] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 11, 2026; Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
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