At the new Piglet & Co, the couple offers decidedly nontraditional takes on Taiwanese street food - though they prefer to categorize the restaurant more broadly as “ Asian comfort food.” Hot Restaurant: Of all the new restaurants to enter the San Francisco dining scene in recent months, the most exciting include Piglet & Co., the long-awaited debut restaurant from chef Chris Yang and partner Marcelle Gonzales Yang, who previously operated Taiwanese pop-ups El Chino Grande and Hen-zi. Below, we cherry-pick the top one or two points on our most popular maps to help time-starved eaters prioritize which spots to visit. Where to StartĪs you know, Eater puts out tons of maps detailing the best places, food, and drink in the Bay Area. This is a city with vibrant Burmese dining options, exquisite croissants, and Moroccan fine dining. In North Beach, family-run Liguria Bakery still serves massive sheets of focaccia 106 years after it first opened its doors, and just a couple of miles away in the shadow of the Japantown’s Peace Pagoda, pristine sushi, chewy mochi doughnuts, and steaming bowls of ramen abound.

The result? A culinary wonderland crammed into a remarkably small space - a place where you can marvel at La Taqueria’s iconic rice-free burritos in the Mission, and be not more than four miles from the oldest Chinatown in America and its century-old institutions. The elegant red lines of the Golden Gate Bridge have long served to welcome newcomers to San Francisco and the West, where myriad cultures commingle and coexist in this 7-by-7 metropolis. But for those discerning diners who want to find where locals really eat, this guide unearths the city’s true treasures.

And even if you’re committed to the idea of tying on a plastic bib and digging into a bowl of cioppino at one of San Francisco’s over-the-top tourist traps, we’ve got resources to help. From Mission-style burritos to soup dumplings to sourdough bread bowls the size of a kiddie pool, there’s no shortage of archetypal dining experiences to be had in this foggy city by the bay.

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