Name: [Dinner] John's Grill for Thanksgiving - Table for Eight
Start: 2025-11-27T20:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-27T22:00:00-08:00
Location: John's Grill

**John's Grill**
Last year Turkey Day dinner with friends and members of this group was at *John's Grill*, what a blast. We had a huge table in the corner of one of their nearly private dining rooms, three great servers who kept our food and drinks warm (or cold) and a smile on each of our faces. So, I have reservations again.. but this time in the *Jazz* room.

*John's Grill* has a special *Prix Fixe* menus with varying prices this year from $90 to $125 (excluding tax/tip). Menus are in the photos section.

**History**
*Nestled in a building two blocks from Union Square and not far from San Francisco’s big convention center and major hotels, John’s Grill has been hosting celebrities from all over the world for more than 100 years. It was created in 1908, only two years after San Francisco’s devastating earthquake. Indeed, John’s Grill was the first downtown restaurant to open after the quake. It quickly became a bustling anchor in the city’s multi-faceted life – hosting a beguiling and lively mixture of politicians, cops, journalists, entertainers, lawyers, business leaders and the just plain curious who wanted to join in the fun, all while eating some of the best food on the west coast. From the time when San Francisco was rebuilding itself and becoming the financial capital of the western United States, on through World War II (the city was the major embarkation point for troops heading to war in the Pacific) and into the heady hippie days of the Sixties and beyond, John’s Grill was – and still is – the downtown gathering place for those who ran the town and those who wanted to run the town.*

*Inside, today’s customers will find period furnishing and dark paneled walls framed with hundreds of photos of movers and shakers (and a sprinkling of the not-quite movers and shakers), most of them from the San Francisco Bay Area, but several from the world of state and national politics. On the robust menus, diners have their choice of great steaks, fresh seafood and a variety of salads – try the famed seafood combo salad named for fitness guru Jack LaLanne.*
from *restaurant website*

**Menus and Reviews**
[John's Grill](https://www.johnsgrill.com/)
[John's Grill (Birdeye)](https://reviews.birdeye.com/johns-grill-149355044632075)

**Administrative Trivia**
Dinner pricing is prix fixe three course for $95 - $125 per person, alcoholic drinks can easily increase this average. Each diner is responsible for their own orders and costs but we will have to consolidate and divvy up the final bill accordingly.

*Dress is smart casual.*

**Taxes and Fees**
Dining in San Francisco has a sales tax (8.625%) and possibly an employee health mandate (4-10%), a tip (20%) may be automatically added because of the size of our party, even on individual bills.

**Parking and Transportation**
Muni: MLNK
There is a parking garage in Union Square.

*Photos and history from restaurant website.*

Dean Norris

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