San Francisco's food scene has never been more dynamic. From zeitgeist-shaping bakers to comfort-food gurus, here are the crop of young chefs making their mark. More: http://tandl.me/UHhOdw
742 Valencia St (btwn 18th & 19th St), San Francisco, CA
Gastropub · Mission Dolores · 43 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: This beer-centric restaurant has a mesmerizing display of glasses of every shape and size and an equally expansive menu. Pair a black lager with your grilled bison loin.
561 Valencia St (btwn 16th & 17th St), San Francisco, CA
Restoran Amerika · Mission District · 156 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: Bar Tartine’s menu is an evolving theater for Chef Chad Robertson’s restless enthusiasms. The latest? Sweet Kamut toast grilled to a chewy crunch with bottarga, dried mushrooms, and dulse seaweed.
Travel + Leisure: French Laundry alum Corey Lee creates dishes reflecting both his Asian heritage and personal obsessions. A bowl of wild-salmon roe with puffed buckwheat is one of 18 courses on the $180 tasting menu.
746 Valencia St (btwn 18th & 19th St), San Francisco, CA
Toko Roti · Mission Dolores · 295 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: Pastry chef William Werner distinguishes himself from the pack with croissants glazed with passion fruit and sesame seeds and semolina cake studded with candied corn nuts.
557 Valencia St (btwn 16th & 17th St), San Francisco, CA
Restoran Italia · Mission District · 168 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: Ricotta, guanciale, and pomegranate make appearances on the menu of this bustling osteria from Mission stalwarts Delfina and Delfina Pizza.
Restoran Korea · Mission Dolores · 182 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: This family-run Korean spot draws crowds with its market vegetable stone pot, handmade noodles, and shave ice. The lines forming out the door rival its neighbor Bi-Rite Creamery.
Restoran Amerika · Outer Sunset · 259 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: At lunch there is a little menu of simple good things: a sandwich of ripe tomatoes and roasted eggplant; bourbon-laced apple cider to guard against the sea-breeze chill.
1652 Stockton St (at Filbert St), San Francisco, CA
Restoran Amerika Baru · North Beach · 204 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: The scene everyone wants to be a part of. Try the schnitzel with bacon-fat eggs and marinated anchovies, and a hangover-helper cocktail of Fernet Branca, ginger beer and lemon.
Restoran Makanan Nostalgia · Mission District · 43 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: Stamp out the munchies with the pickled eggs as artisanal sausage makers work out of this old record store (the neon marquee still reads DISCOLANDIA).
Travel + Leisure: Owner David Lynch named this joint after the patron saint of wine and stocked the cellar with grower champagnes, cult whites from Lazio, and some funky Catalan reds—all for less than $100 a bottle.
741 Valencia St (btwn 18th & 19th St), San Francisco, CA
Restoran Taco · Mission District · 288 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: At this brightly tiled, sceney spot (and Mosto, its tequila-bar annex), you can get pitchers of margaritas made with blackberry and tarragon and tacos of succulent prickly pear and queso oaxaca.
Restoran Yahudi · Mission District · 130 tips dan ulasan
Travel + Leisure: Take a matzoh brei breather at this post-ironic Jewish deli where they brine their own pastrami and the walls are papered with fading Yiddish newsprint.