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Foreign Cinema Restaurant

Address
2534 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94110

Hours of Operation
Foreign Cinema including Laszlo bar and Modernism West is open 7 days a week from 6pm – 2am weekdays and 11am – 2am weekends. Kitchen hours and service are as follows:

Dinner
Monday – Thursday 6pm to 10pm
Friday – Saturday 5:30pm to 11pm
Sunday 5:30pm to 10pm

Brunch
Saturday – Sunday 11am to 3pm

Reservations
Reservations are available online 24 hours a day or by calling the restaurant daily after 11am 415-648-7600.

Open since 1999, Foreign Cinema restaurant has garnered local, national and international acclaim as a quintessentially San Francisco dining experience. We offer a daily changing California/Mediterranean-inspired menu in an industrial chic setting located in the heart of the bustling Mission district. Dinner is served nightly as well as weekend brunch both Saturday and Sunday. Foreign and independent films are screened in our covered outdoor courtyard. Seating is available indoors fireside as well as upstairs in our semi-private mezzanine overlooking the dining room. Guests may enjoy cocktails and our complete menu from the main bar or on the patio outside. Modernism West, an art gallery in collaboration with Martin Mueller and Modernism Inc, is open to the public most nights and is an ideal space for private dining. After dinner drinks with rotating DJ’s completes the evening in our adjacent bar, Laszlo.

Monique Soltani

Monique is the Founder and Host of Wine Oh TV and has a certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers. Monique is an experienced broadcast journalist and has worked at various television stations across the country and most recently at KPIX-TV/CBS 5 and KSEE-TV/NBC 24

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