Food
The Great SF Apple Pie Hunt: A Flaky, Buttery Investigation
Look, we normally spend our time grilling City Hall over budget bloat and transit failures. But sometimes a question comes along that deserves serious investiga...
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Food.
Counters, kitchens, and the people running them this week.
Food
The Dissent's Guide to SF's Best Diners (Because You Deserve Better Than a $22 Avocado Toast)
San Francisco has a lot of things going for it — and a lot of things trying to price you out of a decent breakfast. But somewhere between the $18 overnight oats...
Food
Super Duper Heads to Union Square — And Some People Still Can't Be Happy
Here's a sentence you don't hear enough these days: a business is opening in Union Square. Super Duper Burgers — the SF-born chain that's been slinging solid,...
Union Square·
Food
Festus Ezeli Found His Second Act — And It's Delicious
There's a particular joy in watching someone pursue a passion without a government grant, a nonprofit board, or a five-year strategic plan. Former Warriors cent...
Food
SF's Impossible Dinner Reservations: A Year-Long Quest Just to Eat
Welcome to San Francisco, where you need a year-long strategic plan just to eat a prime rib. The city's dining scene is legendary, but getting a seat at the be...
Food
The Bun Bo Hue Problem: SF's Spicy Soup Gap Is Real
Here's a hard truth for anyone moving to San Francisco this summer with dreams of slurping world-class bun bo hue within walking distance of their apartment: yo...
Food·Scene
SF's Restaurant Scene Is Still One of the Best Arguments for Living Here
Say what you will about San Francisco's absurd cost of living, its crumbling infrastructure, and its seemingly bottomless appetite for spending your tax dollars...
Mission·
Food
The Mission's Food Scene Refuses to Quit: Baja Eats and Fresh Sushi Incoming
Say what you will about San Francisco's struggles — the Mission District keeps betting on itself, one restaurant at a time. The neighborhood is gearing up for...
Mission District·
Food
The Four-Top Hack: Why Your Dinner Reservations Should Always Be for Four
Here's a dining tip that costs you absolutely nothing and might just transform your restaurant experience: always book a table for four. No, you don't need to...
Food
Grocery Outlet Van Ness Is Quietly Stocking British Imports, and Expats Are Losing It
If you've ever wandered into the Grocery Outlet on Van Ness expecting nothing more than discount cereal and mystery wine, you might be in for a surprise. The ba...
Van Ness·
Food
SF Restaurants Are Quietly Charging You More Than the Menu Says — And Hoping You Won't Notice
Here's a fun game you probably didn't know you were playing: order a $13 cocktail in San Francisco and check your receipt. Surprise — it's $15 now. The menu on...
Food
Outside Lands' Food Lineup Goes Full San Francisco Nostalgia — And We're Not Mad About It
Outside Lands has always been as much about the food as the music — let's be honest, maybe more — and this year's lineup is leaning hard into San Francisco nost...
Golden Gate Park·
Food
Solo Dining in SF Is Not Weird — It's a Power Move. Here's Where to Do It.
Let's settle something once and for all: dining alone at a high-end restaurant is not weird. It's not sad. It's not something you need to apologize for. It is,...
Food
Go Bananas: SF's Best Banana Desserts Are Worth Every Penny
Look, we usually spend our time here railing against budget overruns and bureaucratic bloat. But sometimes you need to talk about something that actually works...
Food
Another One Gone: Beloved Castro Sushi Spot Eiji Quietly Closes Its Doors
If you wandered past Eiji in the Castro recently hoping for some of the neighborhood's best sushi, you were met with a locked door and a gut punch. The small, b...
Castro·
Food
The Definitive (and Totally Unsettled) Guide to Bay Area Hawaiian BBQ
There are debates in the Bay Area that will never be resolved. Rent control. BART funding. Whether tech workers ruined the Mission. But perhaps no argument gene...
Food
Safeway Is Robbing You Blind and They Know It
San Francisco is the second most expensive city in the world for groceries. Let that sink in. Not second in the country — in the *world*. And yet, somehow, many...
Food
A Bakery That Actually Survived SF's Permit Gauntlet Just Opened in SoMa
After what's described as "years of delays" — a phrase so common in San Francisco small business stories it should be printed on the city seal — Saltwater Bakes...
SoMa·
Food
Sunnydale Market: A Grocery Store That Might Actually Let You Keep Some of Your Paycheck
Here's a sentence you don't hear very often in San Francisco: a new grocery store is coming, and it's going to be *affordable*. Sunnydale Market is set to open...
Visitacion Valley·
Food
The Haight Closes at 9 PM and That's Embarrassing
Picture this: you catch a show near the Haight, you're feeling good, you step out around 10:30 and think, "I'll just grab a bite." Simple enough, right? This is...
Haight-Ashbury·
Food
Rafiki Community Food Market: Grassroots Solutions Beat Government Programs Every Time
There's a quiet little reminder playing out in San Francisco that the best answers to community needs don't always come with a government letterhead and a seven...
Food
The Dishwasher Who Saved Memphis Minnie's Might Be SF's Best Comeback Story
In a city where beloved restaurants close with depressing regularity — usually replaced by another açaí bowl concept or a tech-bro vanity project — the resurrec...
Lower Haight·
Food
SF's Most Wholesome Flex: Restaurant Food Challenge Ribbons Are Back
In a city where restaurants come and go faster than tech startups, it's the little things that keep us coming back. Case in point: The Front Room is apparently...
Food·Scene
The Art of Fancy Takeout: SF's Best Kept Secret for Parents Who've Given Up on Restaurants
Let's be honest: if you have two kids under five, the phrase "nice dinner out" is an oxymoron. Your evening is less *prix fixe* and more *prix chaos* — someone'...
Food
West Portal Gets a New Coffee Shop — And It's Actually Cool
Good news from the west side: Hardware Coffee has officially soft-opened on West Portal Avenue, and early reports suggest it's the real deal. The new café take...
West Portal·
Food·Scene
The Holy Grail Girl Dinner: Why Can't SF Just Give Us a Caesar, Fries, and a Dirty Martini?
There's a market gap in San Francisco, and it's not another AI startup or a $4,000-a-month micro-unit. It's something far more important: the perfect grown-up h...
Food
Bake Sum Opens in Alameda, Giving Bay Area Another Reason to Cross the Bridge
There's a new bakery in town — well, across the bay, technically. **Bake Sum** is officially open at the Alameda Marketplace, and if you're the kind of person w...
Food
Four SF Restaurants Join the Michelin Guide — Here's What That Actually Means
San Francisco just got a little more Michelin shine — four local restaurants have been added to the prestigious Michelin Guide: **Dingles Public House**, **La C...
Food
The Delicious Card Is Back — 50+ Reasons to Actually Eat Out in SF
San Francisco's Delicious Card is returning for 2026 with over 50 dining deals across the city, and honestly? This is the kind of local initiative we can get be...
Food
The Bay Area's Best Tri-Tip Sandwich Might Be Worth a Road Trip
There's a beautiful simplicity to the Santa Maria style tri-tip sandwich: good meat, good bread, good sauce. No coleslaw. No pickled onion microgreen nonsense....