Restaurants
Redwood City The beer list here is a dizzying menu of lagers, pilsners, IPAs, lambics, porters, stouts, and witbiers. The kitchen is equally ambitious, transforming dour Scottish sustenance into clever...More»
Hayes Valley In a twist on the old chestnut, Scott Broccoli and Danny Sterling moved to San Francisco but left their hearts in Dobbs Ferry, New York, the Hudson River village where they were raised. In...More»
North Beach It isn’t the original Original Joe’s, just a loving reproduction of the Tenderloin institution that burned down five years ago. The new location sports the same red booths and dark...More»
Nick’s Cove There’s nothing quite like starting the day with a dozen on the half shell, particularly when your table overlooks Tomales Bay. Brunch here is custom-made for local-seafood lovers,...More»
With its slumbering warehouses and block-long empty lots, Folsom Street, in the Mission, looks like the kind of neighborhood you'd turn to for taco trucks and...More»
Mission As at other izakayas, you can down your share of chicken skewers and sake here, but this lovely, low-key restaurant provides much more than just another platform for getting stuffed and soused....More»
Fitting that they call it Jack London Square, and not just because the man himself once drank here. Much like London’s stories, which frequently pit man against the merciless whims of nature, Oakland’s...More»
1. Hog Island Oyster Bar More than a pound of clams in their shells dog-pile on top of skin-on potatoes, with color pops of carrots in a brothy base. Sit at the shell-studded counter and watch the...More»
Order a Dark ’n Stormy at your favorite bar, and you’ll soon be sipping a blend of Gosling’s dark rum and a fizzy hit of ginger beer (the recipe, if you didn’t know, is trademarked, and the Gosling’s...More»
Oakland With this long-awaited offshoot of their popular Mediterranean-style small plates restaurant À Côté in Rockridge, owner Jack Knowles and chef Matt Colgan take a market-tested format to the sleepy...More»
Redwood City Picture Il Fornaio with a few artisan touches, and you get an image of this earnest, outsize restaurant, where chef Donato Scotti applies an old-world stamp to a setting that could pass for a...More»
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