• San Francisco's Mission District offers visitors a wide variety of restaurants.san francisco by night image by Tanguy Prouvost from Fotolia.com
  
  San Francisco's Mission District has hundreds of restaurants. According to the SFmission website, the district has 58 Zagat-rated restaurants, eateries given the highest reviews by their patrons. Mission District restaurants offer visitors and residents alike the opportunity to sample a wide variety of international foods. Cuisines served in the Mission include Salvadorian, Indian and Pakistani, French, Breton and Italian and Asian.
  
  

Pakwan Restaurant

• Pakwan Restaurant serves Pakistani and Indian Halal foods. The restaurant has a location on 16th Street that serves a selection of appetizers, vegetarian dishes, Biryani and Tandoori specials. Appetizers include papadum, vegetarian Samosas and raita--seasoned yogurt. Vegetarian dishes at Pakwan include Aloo palak, bengan Bharta and mirch salan--roast pepper curry with tamarind. Pakwan's Tandoori specials include Seekh Kabab, Bihari Boti Kabab and Tandoori lamb chops. Pakwan also features five types of Nan and two desserts. The three Biryani dishes at Pakwan include chicken, lamb and vegetable Biryani, all cooked with spices and layered with Basmati rice.
  
  Pakwan Restaurant
  
  3180-3182 16th Street
  
  San Francisco, CA 94103
  
  415-255-2440
  
  pakwanrestaurant.com
  
  

Tokyo Go Go

• This restaurant is modeled after a Japanese Izakaya--a place where people go to dine, drink and socialize with each other. The restaurant opened in 1998 and has a trendy and hip atmosphere. Tokyo Go Go has a dinner menu, dessert menu, drink menu and sushi/sashimi menu. The dinner menu includes oysters on the half-shell, tuna and salmon tartare, white tuna escabeche and chilled green tea soba noodles served with Japanese eggplant, hijiki seaweed and crunchy lotus root. Desserts at Tokyo Go Go include banana bonsai--chocolate ice cream, tempura banana, whipped cream and chocolate sauce, yuzu cheesecake and mochi ice cream in mango, green tea and strawberry flavors.
  
  Tokyo Go Go
  
  3174 16th Street
  
  San Francisco, CA 94103
  
  415-864-2288
  
  tokyogogo.com
  
  

Limón

• Located in the heart of the Mission District, Limón serves Peruvian cuisine and was voted one of San Francisco's top 100 restaurants. Limón has six menus--brunch, lunch, dinner, beverages, desserts and a prix fixe (fixed price) menu. Selections on the lunch menu include various ceviche and salads, hot dishes such as lomo saltado, pescados limón and anticucho de pollo--grilled chicken skewers with sweet potato fries and aji amarillo-huacatay sauce. The prix fixe menu includes four courses starting with salad or ceviche as the first course, appetizers as the second course and the main entrée and dessert as courses three and four. Desserts at Limón include bandido--warm chocolate cake with light strawberry compote, vanilla ice cream, caramel tuile and chocolate sauce--and profiteroles.
  
  Limón
  
  524 Valencia Street
  
  San Francisco, CA 94110
  
  415-252-0918
  
  limon-sf.coom
  
  (See references 3.)