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Thin Crusts in Glen Park
These days, every San Francisco neighborhood seems to have a boutique pizzeria. With Gialina, Glen Park has one of the best. Until a couple years ago, getting your teeth around a good Neapolitan-style pizza in the Bay Area required reservations at Zuni, A16, or Chez Panisse Café (or the patience to wait for a table at Pizzetta 211.) That changed in 2005, when Pizzeria Picco and Pizzeria Delfina opened. Each combined San Francisco's obsession with sourcing perfect ingredients with an artisan's attention to technique. The result: traditional Neapolitan-style pies with local ingredients, and the beginning of a new trend. More
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Better than its SF Sister
This downtown Oakland restaurant finds success with Fork alum Saman Javid's menu of refined, flavorful soups ($8), robust (if not quite adequately crisp-crusted) artisan pizzas ($13-15), and entrees like last Spring's wild halibut with melted spring onion & green garlic, salsify, hazelnuts, mache & frisee salad, and vanilla ($21). More
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SF Outpost Gets a B-Minus, Oakland Spot Scores Higher
While YBCA, MOMA, and the Metreon offer much in terms of arts and entertainment, dining options in the area are limited to just-palatable mall food (e.g. Buckhorn Grill, Chevy's, Jillian's) and super high-end fine dining (Ame, XYZ). B Restaurant and Bar strives to provide an upscale middle ground. Located just outside of the main building and on the second level of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens, B occupies an ideal spot overlooking much of the downtown skyline with extensive patio seating. It may be a little confusing to find, but the views, especially on an unusual warm day in the city, make the search worthwhile. More
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Spoon + Fork = Spork
Funny how the word “spork” makes one think about places like, say, KFC -- bucket meals, plastic utensils and fast-food. But put those thoughts out of your mind -- despite their digs in the former home of a KFC, there’s nothing pre-packaged about Spork except its name. The atmosphere is sleek and quirky, with a keen attention to detail throughout, including large modern paintings of fingers, and a sleek bar with seating reminiscent of that found at a coffee shop, only cool, modern and in slate grey and chrome. More
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An American Steakhouse with a California Perspective
Located on the fifth floor of the Four Seasons hotel, Seasons has been relaunched as an American steakhouse with a California perspective; gone are the heavy side dishes and the serious interiors. In its place: more refined entrées, lighter sides, and a contemporary décor of warm tans, rich woods and deep lapis. More
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An Argentine Steakhouse in North Beach
For anyone who's enjoyed grilled meats prepared in the Argentine fashion, a trip to an Argentine steakhouse is rife with anticipation. Will they have the gargantuan, grilled cross-cut short ribs that seem to be attainable only in South American restaurants? How are the empanadas, sweetbreads, blood sausages and chorizo? The chimichurri sauce? Is the wine list rife with excellent Malbecs? According to some connoisseurs, San Francisco's El Raigon has slipped from its place of high regard in the handful of years since its opening. More
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Off the Hook
I’m always happy to crouch on a rickety stool with a paper plate on my lap if the food is good enough to merit the potential for grease stains on my knees. Take me to that Chinatown back alley with the awesome grub and trash bags for tablecloths any day; it's far preferential to the overblown, posh eatery serving paste on fine china and watery gruel in top-tier Swarovski. Pacific Catch may use real crockery instead of paper plates, but a food-first approach makes for long waits at this always-crowded Marina beehive. More
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The Royal Treatment
Have you had dinner in a quiet restaurant lately? We haven’t either. But if you’re looking for somewhere to celebrate with a date or family and actually converse; you couldn’t pick a more tranquil spot than the recently renovated dining room at the Hotel Majestic on Cathedral Hill. Awash in cream tones and soft lighting, the booths and tables are set comfortably apart -- allowing diners to enjoy a leisurely meal in a peaceful environment. The staff is friendly and proud to be there, eager to share their favorite picks on chef Ian Begg's menu. More
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Miss Millie's Reincarnates in Oakland's Rockridge District
What is it that makes the perfect brunch? Is it the shortness of the wait? The enormity of portions? The strength of the champagne cocktails? No. The best brunches are all about the potatoes. Somerset's potatoes are absolutely stunning: well-cooked but not too crispy, salty but not overseasoned, small enough that you can pop one in your mouth without looking like a pig. If we could only eat one item for breakfast for the rest of our lives, it would be these potatoes. More
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Sit-down Mexico City Market Food
For all the taquerias, taco trucks, and Mission dives specializing in moonshine margaritas, the neighborhood seems to lack a good sit-down Mexican spot where you’d be willing to take your mom. Thankfully there’s a new option: Michael Pena’s Regalito Rosticeria, where you’ll find Mexico City style “market food” and an inventive menu with fresh ingredients at an affordable price. More
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