The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Mexico City’s signature street food gets reinvented to satisfy famished Potrero del Sol skateboarders. These sandwiches are stuffed with farm-fresh…
Must-see restaurants in California
Big Sur
Woodsy restaurant with a deck, overlooking a creek teeming with throaty frogs. The food is standard American – burgers, steak, sandwiches, roast chicken…
San Francisco
Polk St was once better known as Polkstrasse by German immigrants and Leopold's pays homage to neighborhood heritage with lip-schmacking Austrian-German…
San Francisco
Early risers and park joggers are rewarded with SF-roasted Ritual coffee and Cassava's housemade, multilingual breakfasts – choose from a Japanese…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
An international idea that's pure California: choice seafood served raw in the Italian style, with pan-Asian condiments and East–West beers. Start with…
San Diego
South Coast Winery's gracious main restaurant has an arts-and-crafts-style barn feel and vineyard views from the balcony. Salads and sandwiches are…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Organic pub grub and home-brew samplers keep conversation flowing at communal tables, while grass-fed burgers satisfy stoner appetites in booths – it's…
The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
Toss aside ordinary salads. For $13.95, build a mighty mound of organic produce, topped with six fixings, including artisan cheeses, caramelized onions,…
North Beach & Chinatown
Generations of North Beachers have entrusted the most important meal of the day to Mama and Papa Sanchez, whose sunny Victorian storefront diner has…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Bay Area chef Ritsu Tsuchida caters to San Francisco's picky eaters with vegetarian miso ramen and tsukemen (noodles for dipping, not soaking in soup)…
Los Angeles
This new, central spot does Mexican standards and cooking with an island twist such as ancho-chile spiced shrimp served with avocado, greens, cucumber and…
Yosemite & the Sierra Nevada
Fill up on a hearty meal at this basic place before entering the park. The menu is extensive, with most kinds of classic American fare, plus some Greek…
San Francisco
Monster banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches) stomp hunger with your choice of beef, lemongrass chicken, portobello, or pork with pâté on crusty French bread…
Greater Palm Springs
For local color by the bucket and greasy burgers to boot, stop by this Salton Sea watering hole in a quasi ghost town. If you're lucky, you'll get to be…
Tony's Coal-Fired Pizza & Slice House
North Beach & Chinatown
Fuggedaboudit, New York pizza loyalists: in San Francisco, you can grab a cheesy, thin-crust slice from nine-time world-champion pizza-slinger Tony…
Los Angeles
There's a lot to love at this sourdough-crusted pizza joint, from the slab marble bar and craft libations, to the fluffy, wood-fired pies themselves…
San Francisco
For wine with a side of food and people-watching, Union Larder sets the scene with backlit wine bottles rising to the ceiling and vaulted windows…
Orange County
The fancier sister restaurant of Brodard, this place looks like a traditional Vietnamese house, with a full bar and subdued lighting inside. Like the…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Mission barflies and globetrotting gourmands find common ground at Danny Bowien's cult-food dive. Kung pao pastrami burritos, lamb dumplings with Greek…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Entire Mission street-art movements have been fueled by El Tonayense tacos over the past 25 years. Burritos and quesadillas are generous to a fault, and…
San Francisco
Since you asked nicely, pastry chef Alison Okabayashi will hand over your choice of all-American treats: mini apple pies, carrot cupcakes and sculpted…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
Sure, you could get the Cobb salad, but go the whole hog for the smoked-rib plate – 4505 butchers its own humanely raised pork and grass-fed beef, so ribs…
The Haight & Hayes Valley
The Haight's obligatory mid-bender stop for a hot slice. Pesto with roasted garlic and potato will send you blissfully off to carbo-loaded sleep, but the…
Mammoth Lakes
The most atmospheric and romantic (and pricey) restaurant in Mammoth, this intimate dining room at Tamarack Lodge overlooks the lovely Twin Lakes. The…
The Marina, Fisherman’s Wharf & the Piers
Happening and swank, Belga resembles a European brasserie, with side-by-side tables flanking red-leather banquettes – fitting for northern French and…
North Beach & Chinatown
Once an old boys' club, this modern, women-owned bistro makes cheeky California updates to continental classics: Kobe beef tartare with duck liver pâté on…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Find a seat on the pier at rickety umbrella tables for Bloody Marys and people-watching, and do it fast – once the Warriors stadium is finished 50 feet…
San Francisco
Yes, there's a wait, but do you see anyone walking away? Blame it on fragrant moh hinga (catfish curry), tangy vegetarian samusa soup, and traditional…
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
A beloved laid-back Mexican joint packed with Playa Vista business types at lunch and locals at dinner. It does massive burritos filled with chunks of…
Los Angeles
A comforting, old-school combo of TV sports, vested waiters and mission-brown panels and chairs, Versailles draws everyone from college kids to grizzled…
Mammoth Lakes
Swanky for Mammoth, 53 is a modern space recommended as much for its lengthy cocktail menu as for its food, which includes braised short ribs and crispy…
Yosemite National Park
For a classic Yosemite experience, make a dinner reservation (for breakfast, just show up) at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge. The place is as basic looking as…
San Francisco
Warm up on Golden Gate Park's south side with South Indian fare in a low-lit storefront bistro. The house specialty is paper dosa, a massive crispy lentil…
San Francisco
Since 1977, Anchor has been Castro's port of call for sustainably sourced local oysters, Dungeness crab, seafood salads, and San Francisco cioppino …
Yosemite National Park
Formerly a dated and stodgy food court, this large space has been completely redesigned and modernized. Several self-service stations serve a variety of…
Greater Palm Springs
This mood-lit local fave with indoor koi pond delivers creatively crafted classics from around Asia – tom ka gai to tempura shrimp and mandarin pork – but…
North Beach & Chinatown
Decadent cravings worthy of a William S Burroughs novel are satisfied by this patio pub tucked between XXX entertainment venues. For brunch, the free…
Mt Shasta Region
This casual, high-ceilinged, brick-walled hangout (formerly the Brown Trout Gallery & Dogwood Diner and originally the town mercantile) serves organic,…
Oakland
Hopscotch's premise is quintessentially California: upscale American diner food with a Japanese twist, and seasonal cocktails. The diner/Japanese marriage…
San Francisco
With a wink and a nod at the Scandinavian sailors who settled the Castro, Finn Town serves hearty, hangover-relieving American classics – duck confit hash…
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