The food at SFO's restaurants can be passable, even if the prices remain horrendous. He or she finds the Sellini Grille, the closest thing to a low-key family restaurant I've ever found at an airport. Since our part of the world is famous for its wines and foods, it seems appropriate that our airport restaurant is a place you'd actually want to visit for dinner, rather than a place you're forced to patronize because you're stuck there. The view is of the runways with planes landing and taking off over the hills toward Forestville to the west. The comfy bar is a nice place to relax with a drink before flying away, and there's a full coffee service.
Tables have tablecloths covered with white butcher paper, dried flowers in vases, and oil lamps.
The predinner bread is sourdough loaf and butter. Greek music plays softly on the sound system, and the menu seems to have one foot in Italy and the other in Greece. The menu lists about 30 wines, all by glass or bottle, including a retsina, a Greek wine flavored with resinous pine pitch is delicious. The night I visited, several families were having birthday parties, the bar was packed with locals, and only a few folks appeared to be travelers. That says volumes about a restaurant at an airport, so I was anxious to try the food.