# The Stinking Rose, San Francisco CA: Reviews

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

## Photos

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## In short

The Stinking Rose is an italian restaurant in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 23 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 | 430 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 12 PM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 12 PM to 9 PM · Sun 12 PM to 8:30 PM |
| Phone | (415) 781-7673 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 4,666 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| 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 | 430 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Even desserts have garlic at this unique Italian eatery with a menu highlighting that ingredient. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 12:00 to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 12:00 to 9:00 PM · Sun 12:00 to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Stinking Rose | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 781-7673 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 12:00 PM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 12:00 PM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 12:00 PM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 12:00 PM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 12:00 PM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | About thebuzz | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | About thegarlic | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Buy giiftcard | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Desserts with garlic | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Garlic-themed dishes | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Italian cuisine | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Large parties | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Large party reservations | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Makeareservation | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menu1 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menu2 | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menuthanksgiving | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Online reservations | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Other restaurants | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Photos | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Recipes | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Restaurants | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Sf restaurant week | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Website | https://thestinkingrose.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 13 services The Stinking Rose offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sf restaurant week |  |  |  | From their website |
| Other restaurants |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menuthanksgiving |  |  |  | From their website |
| About thebuzz |  |  |  | From their website |
| Photos |  |  |  | From their website |
| Recipes |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menu2 |  |  |  | From their website |
| Large parties |  |  |  | From their website |
| Buy giiftcard |  |  |  | From their website |
| Restaurants |  |  |  | From their website |
| About thegarlic |  |  |  | From their website |
| Makeareservation |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menu1 |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting The Stinking Rose

Address: 430 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA. Phone: (415) 781-7673. Hours: Mon to Thu 12 PM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 12 PM to 9 PM · Sun 12 PM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Even desserts have garlic at this unique Italian eatery with a menu highlighting that ingredient."


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Caffe Greco | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| Fanoos Grills | Shawarma restaurant | 1 min walk |
| National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi | Church | 1 min walk |
| Belle Cora | Bar | 1 min walk |
| Palermo II Delicatessen | Deli | 1 min walk |
| Public Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 4,666 reviews: Google 4,666. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

Despite a fun garlic theme, The Stinking Rose struggles with food quality and service consistency, leading to a polarized dining experience. (AI guess, from 4,666 reviews.)


### What people like

- Garlic ice cream
- Seafood fettuccine
- Crab dishes
- Affogato
- Gnocchi


### What people do not like

- Food quality inconsistent
- Long waits for service
- Poor kid-friendly options
- Overpriced menu items
- Service complaints


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### people keep recommending The Stinking Rose, what for?


### rough idea what The Stinking Rose costs?


### Why do people rate this place?


### best italian restaurant in San Francisco


### Busiest day at The Stinking Rose, anyone know?


### first visit at The Stinking Rose, what do I need to bring?


### anything new from The Stinking Rose lately?


### where exactly is this place?


### is San Francisco expensive for this, or is it just here


### torn between The Stinking Rose and Cotogna?


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


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


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### anywhere on Columbus to sit while I wait


### what time does this place actually open?


### points or member pricing here, worth signing up?


### are prices in San Francisco higher than everywhere else


## The AI Score: 23 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. The Stinking Rose scores 23, below the San Francisco average of 32. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Stinking Rose |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 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 | 60 | 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 | 0 | 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 The Stinking Rose |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Stinking Rose | LocalBusiness | #business | https://thestinkingrose.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City The Stinking Rose 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:ChIJW52Si_OAhYAR-jAC1-iQh_c (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/about-thebuzz.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/about-thegarlic.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/buy-giiftcard.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/menu2.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/menuthanksgiving.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [7] thestinkingrose.com, https://thestinkingrose.com/restaurants.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [8] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/photos.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [9] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/recipes.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [10] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/restaurants.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [11] thestinkingrose.com, https://thestinkingrose.com/menurestaurantweek.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [12] thestinkingrose.com, https://thestinkingrose.com/banquets.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [13] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/makeareservation.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [14] thestinkingrose.com, http://thestinkingrose.com/menu1.html (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [15] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)