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The Moroccan restaurant a few doors down from Foreign Cinema has a great roof deck with a great view. They serve drinks up there in the evenings, and it's quite nice.

It's not exactly a deck, but the upper level of the Embarcadero is a nice place for lunch when the weather's warm.

I also like SFGail's recommendation for Medjool in the Mission, but I don't know of many other restaurants or bars or public places with elevated outdoor spaces...

The Lookout in the Castro's been hopping this weekend.

I'd recommend Mint's roof deck. Small but a decent view.

SPUR's Young Urbanists and the Next American City quarterly mag just had a program last week on privately-owned public spaces that are littered around the FiDi and SOMA. REBAR was also part of the program, and their investigation last year yielded this :http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/commonspace/index2.html (a map of the POPOS). Enjoy.

San Francisco lacks good roof decks, and I regularly bemoan this predicament. Medjool has a nice deck but it's so "scene-y" and too packed, and other sporadic roof decks are crowded or expensive or just not nice. Where are the low-key roof decks in this town?

The Sf Chronicle recently did a piece on open spaces in downtown, and a few of these are on rooftops. Here's the map they provided: http://www.sfgate.com/maps/cityspaces