SPQR is one of Fillmore Street’s great restaurants — a modern Italian kitchen that has been running at a high level since chef Matthew Accarrino took over in 2009. The menu draws on the full range of Italian regional cooking, with handmade pasta as the backbone and an emphasis on technique and restraint. Accarrino was named a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2014 and coauthored the cookbook SPQR: Modern Italian Food and Wine. The restaurant has earned a Michelin star.
The room is intimate and warm, the service is knowledgeable without being stiff, and the wine list is one of the best Italian-focused lists in the city. SPQR has been a neighborhood anchor for well over a decade, and it continues to deliver the kind of meal that makes you understand why people choose to live in this neighborhood.
