Dining -- Best Deli's, Diners, Cafes & Fast Food

Winter, 2013 -- What are the best restaurants in Sausalito?  Each quarter we survey a wide range of blogs, travel sites, online forums and ratings sites, then create this ranking of Sausalito restaurants that serve Breakfast and Lunch but close for dinner.  You can click here to see How to Read our Restaurant Charts. 

You can also check out: The best places in Sausalito that serve both lunch and dinner, Restaurant Price Range Page, Sausalito Restaurants Sorted by Neighborhood, Shorts Top 10^TM for Casual Dining, and the Long Memories Top 10^TM for Special Occasions.

 

Rank	Rank	Restaurant Name	Score	Score	Heat	Cuisine
Win	Fall		Win	Fall
1	2	Lighthouse Cafe	100	98	215	Danish Diner
2	1	Anchorage 5	99	100	63	Diner
2	3	Venice Gourmet Deli	99	98	60	Deli
2	4	Fred’s Coffee Shop	99	97	361	Diner
5	4	Golden Gate Mkt. Deli	98	97	19	Deli
5	4	Davey Jones Deli	98	97	59	Deli
5	--	Philz Coffee	98	--	21	Coffee Shop
8	8	Louie's Delicatessen	96	95	33	Deli
8	8	Bayside Cafe	96	95	66	Diner
8	10	Sausalito Bakery & Cafe	96	93	117	Bakery-Diner
11	11	Sausalito Gourmet Deli	94	90	30	Deli
12	16	Napa Valley Burger Co.	93	84	97	Burgers
13	11	Hamburgers	92	91	214	Flame Grill
14	13	Cibo	91	88	111	Italian
15	14	Lappert's Ice Cream	89	86	190	Ice Cream
16	15	Bridgeway Bagel	86	85	13	Bagels
17	18	Starbucks (Narin City)	83	81	9	Coffee Shop
17	17	Subway	83	83	6	Sandwiches
17	20	Salsalito Taco Shop	83	80	244	Mexican
20	18	Venice Pizzeria	82	81	29	Pizza
20	20	Bridgeway Cafe	82	80	90	Diner
		For more restaurants
		see below

Not Listed: The following restaurants that serve lunch, sandwiches etc. in Sausalito did not make the Top 20 or are not listed since we do not have sufficient survey data to include them: 

--  Burger King

--  Caffe Tutti

--  Fish & Chips of Sausalito

--  Il Piccolo Cafe

--  Mollie Stones Deli

-- Panda Express

-- Starbucks (Downtown)

The leading restaurant on our list will always receive a score of 100, and all other restaurants will be scored on that curve.  Notes on our ranking methodology are here. 

 

 

Comments

[Anna]

Technical question: Do you use reviews made only in the month of the ranking, or all reviews found for your meta-ranking?

[Editors]

Anna, we weight reviews (and blog posts, blog comments and all other kinds of content) from this last month most highly, then gradually "age" the inputs we factor until it drops off the calculation's radar.

If "The Plain Old Food" restaurant in Sausalito has their Executive Chef go on vacation for a month and chaos breaks out in the kitchen that's dramatic enough to be noticed in the front of the house, you'd probably see a drop of several points in their score. When the Chef returned and all was made right again the score would climb back fairly fast, since the problem was only a blip.

Most restaurant score dips that we see do re-center themselves. Many jumps in score settle back to the prior level again as well.

The stories we hate to see are when a rsetaurant's score drops... and then keeps dropping. Especially if it's someplace our family has eaten for years and where we have many happy memories.

Thanks for your question!