SF Eater publishes a list of the best 38 restaurants in the city. You can see the list here.
Here is the condensed list:
- Slanted Door
- Boulevard
- Perbacco
- Tadich Grill
- Bix Restaurant
- Quince
- COI Restaurant
- 15 Romolo
- R & G Lounge
- Swan Oyster Depot
- Canteen
- Ryoko Restaurant & Bar
- Absinthe Brasserie & Bar
- Zuni Cafe
- Sebo
- SPQR
- DOSA on Fillmore
- A16
- Spruce
- Nopa
- Namu
- Halu
- Aziza
- Magnolia Pub & Brewery
- Contigo
- Incanto
- Beretta
- Range
- Maverick
- Foreign Cinema
- Delfina/Pizzeria Delfina
- Bar Bambino
- Flour and Water
- Blue Bottle Cafe
- Coco500
- AME Restaurant
- Town Hall Restaurant
- Zaré at Fly Trap
Why 38? Not sure. This isn’t ranked either, they are just all on the list.
For those of you who follow the whole debate around street food in SF….the NYTimes has a great article on the debate.
There is also a new website for the San Francisco Cart Project. The debate centers around whether it is unfair to restaurants who have to abide by city rules and whether these carts are taking away their customers. My take? They should stop whining and get carts of their own! Take the food to the people.
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a wonderfully innovative local street food culture that is growing extremely quickly through its combination of technology and mobile, sustainable, food. The SF Cart Project seeks to complement the research of people interested in starting, or expanding, a street food business of their own by providing a relevant central resource for documents, information and community awareness regarding the often confusing (and occasionally contradictory) process of starting and running a legal mobile food business in the Bay Area.
sf cart project
I stumbled upon this website that is just about snacks. Pretty fascinating. This guy now makes his living from reviewing snacks. He goes on snack tours. And thank god, otherwise, where else are you going to learn all about Bacorns?
Airship Adventures
If you have some serious bank, take your sweetheart on an Airship Adventure.
Found this website today by Panoramics. You can tour around and see Burning Man in a virtual 360 degree world. Pretty cool. Makes me want a bottle of water though.
Burning Man Virtual Tour
TED is a unique conference that showcases speakers from all walks of life. Their motto is “Ideas Worth Spreading”. You can watch previous speeches on their website and I have enjoyed many thought provoking speeches from artists, scientists, and even chefs!
Each year they give a TED prize to somebody and that person gets to have their wish come true. One year Bono won and his wish was to give a computer to every child in Ethiopia (I think) which led to the creation of one.org.
This week David Byrne, Bill Gates and Stewart Brand will all speak. Check it out!
Want to find out how your favorite restaurants fare? This site provides the latest health inspection results. There are some places we use to go, but are holding off until they resolve these issues.
Who has the best calamari in SF? Would love to hear opinions. Please don’t say Cha-cha-chas. My current favorite is the FRITTO MISTO WITH LEMON, AIOLI AND FRESH HERBS at Pizza Nostra in Potrero Hill. It comes on a wooden cutting board with lemon and sauce. It includes calamari, but also white fish, vegetables, etc. Very delish.
Best calamari in San Francisco
