Side note: As a San Francisco native, just letting you know the Irish coffee is originally from Ireland. It says on the plaque on Buena Vista that says it's from Ireland. Also, for Ghiradelli, it the"G" is not pronounced like a "J". It's pronounced as "Gear-ah-deli"
My family and I would go to SF about once a year, but now that both our daughters go to college up north, one in SF and the other in San Jose, we go up there a lot more and our daughters are always taking us to place we're the locals eat, and there are some amazing places to eat up there.
Great video. If you want an extravagant (pricey but well worth it) dinner in SF, I highly recommend the House of Prime Rib. You usually have to get a reservation months in advance, but it is top quality and you will leave stuffed.
Joe's in North Beach and Westlake District in Daly City. These guys have been around before this chain and makes the best American style steaks anywhere. Expensive but not like House of Prime Rib expensive. Also....a whole lot better because they serve all kinds of other stuff besides steak.
I would definitely agree with the commenters about Mitchell’s ice cream and See’s chocolates (there is a factory near the airport). I’d also add Tartine for your sourdough bread and everything else they make!
My recommendations in San Francisco local shops - The Ice Crema Bar - 815 Cole St (for the made from scratch sodas and floats, the ice cream is all right but it's really the drinks you want from here) Leopold's Austrian - 2400 Polk St Golden Gate Tap Room - 449 Powell St (Yes, near Union Square, if you get smashed don't wander after hours) Ghiradeli is great too, but also look out of See's Candies. That's my family's preferred chocolate. Fortune Cookies - Not only are they an SF creation, they were brought over by the Japanese too lol
Great video! I really like Devils teeth for best breakfast sandwich!! Tony’s pizza in north beach Chubby noodle also north beach Wayfare tavern House of prime rib
Haven't heard of Bi-Rite or might've visited it one time without retaining the name but the ice cream I'd associate SF with the most is Mitchell's Ice Cream. Keep in mind you'd be waiting in a long line for it. Speaking of long lines, with the exception of events that draw crowds, if people are waiting in a long line for a place to eat at, most likely it means that place is great. Also for anyone looking for a place for coffee I highly recommend Philz Coffee. It's not your typical coffee and disclaimer, it's more caffeinated than normal but also flavorful.
Yup...Mitchell's on 29th and San Jose. It's become touristy and stupid during hot days. But...if you want to buy your own half gallon ice cream, you can go to the Asian supermarkets in the area and pick up the more popular flavors. There is also LOARD's ice cream from Oakland. All local made and different than Mitchell's. Great ice creams, both.
Such good recs! I’d add try getting a Dutch Crunch sandwich as I’ve heard you can’t find the bread in other parts of the country. Would love to see you come across the bay and tell us about Oakland!
There are a lot of little shops all over SF and can get candy BY THE POUND. They also give you a free sample at the counter. All the See's candy is made in one factory in South San Francisco, a small town just south of SF. They have an outlet too and have all the candy fresh made.
@@J3unG See's Candies shops are actually some of the best smelling shops I've been to. The smell pulls you in and it's hard to leave without at least taking a sample.
We love San Francisco! We had a lot of great food, but really loved House of Nanking. It’s a tiny, super crowded Asian restaurant. You’re literally elbow to elbow with the next table. Great way to get recommendations! We had their Bao buns, which may be the best dish I’ve ever eaten in my life. ❤ 😊We also had their famous sesame chicken with glazed sweet potato. Amazing! They cook the fried rice at your table, which is fun. Highly recommend! 😊
Yeh...House of Nanking is rubbish. There are so many better places in the city. It's a tourist thing because no one knows what's up. Ton Kiang for the best dim sum in SF and NorCal. Go to the Richmond District for Chinese food. It's priced better and the food is not touristy. It's good stuff. You got ripped off, bro. You don't need to have fried rice cooked in front of you. It's silly and something folks around here don't care about.
Love the food in San Francisco. The best pizza I ever had was from a place at Pier 39, but that sadly has been gone for some time. The first time I had Chinese Food was in Chinatown in San Francisco when was young and have enjoyed going to Chinatown since.
Try Papa Ray's in San Francisco. No one knows about this spot. Thin crust, good cheese, good sauce, good flour. Not NYC but different and way better than any other spot in the city.
The Streets of San Francisco. A Quinn-Martin production. Starring Karl Malden. Co-starring Michael Douglas. This week's episode, a crazed world traveler decimates the city's food supply. Brought to you by Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat 😂 my fave food sign in SF: Tasty salted pig parts. Gotta love it all. Great work Mark!
Fun fact I remember from my alcatraz tour: Unless there might have been a disciplining reason for a limited diet.... The warden insisted that the prisoners in Alcatraz be fed a top-rate diet (by prison standards). He believed that better meals would lead to less angry inmates (and Alcatraz already had the worst/most dangerous inmates to begin with).
Born and raised in SF. Aside from sourdough bread, Dutch Crunch bread especially with a deli sandwich is also a staple growing up here. Also the Richmond District has really good piroshki's and other Russian food, but piroshki's in particular are really popular out here. Also anyone looking to drink a bit should google "Cutty Bangs". And as far as mission burritos "kind of" inspiring Chipotle goes: they DIRECTLY inspired Chipotle. The founder Steve Ellis lived in San Francisco for two years before moving back to Denver and starting Chipotle. There's definitely more that I'm forgetting but dutch crunch sandwiches, piroshkis, and I'd say also lumpia are some additional foods worth getting here. And as far as SF's bad rep: if you ever do accidentally end up in the tenderloin you should stay calm and go eat a banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches). The tenderloin is still a community where families live as well and isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Great video.
On an unrelated note: I just had your short recommended also about not calling San Francisco "Frisco". It's fine. Lots of people here call it Frisco. Being born and raised here I say it all the time and have heard it being used by adults and people my age my whole life since I was a kid (I'm almost 30). I say SF and stuff too but Frisco is used by myself and A LOT of locals here. However, you'll still get some gatekeepers who don't like the term and there's an interesting history to that nickname and its popularity (look up Herb Caen) but more people (who are actually from here) accept its usage than reject it in my experience. I get why the comments were disabled though on the short because it's a sensitive topic for a lot of people. People tend to associate the rejection of the term here with gentrification because it does seem to be rejected more by people who moved to San Francisco and settled there rather than people who grew up there. Nobody really says San Fran here as a nickname though unless they're being ironic about it.
That guy Steve Ellis is a POS I avoid Chipotle like the plague. The rice and beans aren't cooked right, ever. Also, their burrito prices drove up all the mom and pops prices. I will be a Farolito taqueria man until I die, bro.
I would also add don't eat at the main wharf/tourist area unless you have to. Everything there is fine, but it's touristy. It's high floor/low ceiling kind of fare. Like Boudin for example, you'll never go there and say it was awful but you'll (likely) never go there and get an amazing real taste of SF you couldn't get elsewhere. Instead, go 2-3 miles off the beaten path and THAT'S where the gems are usually at lower costs as well. I hesitate to even share this because I'd like to be selfish and keep it a secret but Swan Oyster depot is a legit 110+ year old, one-counter small restaurant that has food to die for!
You want a good place locals go to where the scene is good and food is something we can afford: RED'S JAVA HOUSE. They got daily specials which is some kind of sandwich fries and a drink. Prices went up after pandemic but not by much. Quality is still the same though. Fuk. I shouldn't be telling people this. I don't want my joint filling up and driving prices.
Don't expect to find chop suey without a hunt. Or be surprised to find your mu shu comes with tortillas instead of rice paper. And there's a lot more northern Chinese restaurants now in what used to be almost exclusively Cantonese. I agree with you totally on the Mission district. You can travel through not just Mexico but also much of Central America just on Mission and on 24th streets. There's also a lot of smaller chocolatiers (spelling?) and ice cream/gelato places scattered throughout the city.
It's GHEE-are-DELI. Not JEE-are-DELI. Also, you ended up going to some of the worst tourist areas in SF that locals never ever go to. It's priced for tourists and the quality of the food is sketchy, bro. Next time you come out, I recommended going to different neighbourhoods for decently priced good whole food. Some recommendations: Richmond district for any Chinese food. Stay out of Chinatown. It's not that great. Mission District for latin food. Burritos, etc: Any El Farolito restaurant (I think there's three of them). This is the quintessential SF style burrito, among other things. Pizza : Papa Ray's pizzas which is the closest you will find of thin crust NY style pizza. It's a good price and they use good cheese and good sauce and good flour for the crust. Chinese: Go to Ton Kiang in the Richmond District for Dim Sum. They are the best in the city and possible NorCal. Russian bakery (what!?!?!?) Tblisi bakery in the Richmond district as well. They make poppy seed pastry that is incredible. Also, they make four types of piroshkis. If you get there at noon, they will be HOT.
So many good foods in San Francisco!
Side note: As a San Francisco native, just letting you know the Irish coffee is originally from Ireland. It says on the plaque on Buena Vista that says it's from Ireland. Also, for Ghiradelli, it the"G" is not pronounced like a "J". It's pronounced as "Gear-ah-deli"
My family and I would go to SF about once a year, but now that both our daughters go to college up north, one in SF and the other in San Jose, we go up there a lot more and our daughters are always taking us to place we're the locals eat, and there are some amazing places to eat up there.
I loved eating San Francisco
Did San Francisco taste good?
The original Swensen’s ice cream parlor is in San Francisco!
Great video. If you want an extravagant (pricey but well worth it) dinner in SF, I highly recommend the House of Prime Rib. You usually have to get a reservation months in advance, but it is top quality and you will leave stuffed.
Joe's in North Beach and Westlake District in Daly City. These guys have been around before this chain and makes the best American style steaks anywhere. Expensive but not like House of Prime Rib expensive. Also....a whole lot better because they serve all kinds of other stuff besides steak.
I would definitely agree with the commenters about Mitchell’s ice cream and See’s chocolates (there is a factory near the airport). I’d also add Tartine for your sourdough bread and everything else they make!
My recommendations in San Francisco local shops -
The Ice Crema Bar - 815 Cole St (for the made from scratch sodas and floats, the ice cream is all right but it's really the drinks you want from here)
Leopold's Austrian - 2400 Polk St
Golden Gate Tap Room - 449 Powell St (Yes, near Union Square, if you get smashed don't wander after hours)
Ghiradeli is great too, but also look out of See's Candies. That's my family's preferred chocolate.
Fortune Cookies - Not only are they an SF creation, they were brought over by the Japanese too lol
Great video!
I really like
Devils teeth for best breakfast sandwich!!
Tony’s pizza in north beach
Chubby noodle also north beach
Wayfare tavern
House of prime rib
Love getting a slice from Tony’s and eating it in washington square park!!
The food is so good in San Francisco 😊
Great video Mark! Now this is a food video. I loved San Francisco. Good job!
Thank you
Haven't heard of Bi-Rite or might've visited it one time without retaining the name but the ice cream I'd associate SF with the most is Mitchell's Ice Cream. Keep in mind you'd be waiting in a long line for it. Speaking of long lines, with the exception of events that draw crowds, if people are waiting in a long line for a place to eat at, most likely it means that place is great. Also for anyone looking for a place for coffee I highly recommend Philz Coffee. It's not your typical coffee and disclaimer, it's more caffeinated than normal but also flavorful.
100% Mitchell’s. Get the Ube!
@@merewalsh29 Definitely! Ube ice cream is actually on the rise throughout the state as a whole.
Yup...Mitchell's on 29th and San Jose. It's become touristy and stupid during hot days. But...if you want to buy your own half gallon ice cream, you can go to the Asian supermarkets in the area and pick up the more popular flavors.
There is also LOARD's ice cream from Oakland. All local made and different than Mitchell's. Great ice creams, both.
Philz' Coffee 👍👌
Such good recs! I’d add try getting a Dutch Crunch sandwich as I’ve heard you can’t find the bread in other parts of the country. Would love to see you come across the bay and tell us about Oakland!
Why? Oakland's a mess. Nothing here except poverty and crime.
The City’s Burmese restaurants are amazing
Interesting food ideas. I liked this video.😊❤
As far as chocolates go, don't forget about See's Candies. It's more the type of chocolates for special occasions but they're really good.
See's fr!
There are a lot of little shops all over SF and can get candy BY THE POUND. They also give you a free sample at the counter. All the See's candy is made in one factory in South San Francisco, a small town just south of SF. They have an outlet too and have all the candy fresh made.
@@J3unG See's Candies shops are actually some of the best smelling shops I've been to. The smell pulls you in and it's hard to leave without at least taking a sample.
La Taqueria hands down the best burrito in San Francisco 👍👌
Buena Vista Cafe 👍Yah its a tourist trap. But the Irish Coffee. They go down soooooo good.
My girlfriend and I visited this winter and stopped at Caffe Sport in North Beach for Sicilian food… loved it!
Ripped off, bro.
We love San Francisco! We had a lot of great food, but really loved House of Nanking. It’s a tiny, super crowded Asian restaurant. You’re literally elbow to elbow with the next table. Great way to get recommendations! We had their Bao buns, which may be the best dish I’ve ever eaten in my life. ❤ 😊We also had their famous sesame chicken with glazed sweet potato. Amazing! They cook the fried rice at your table, which is fun. Highly recommend! 😊
Yeh...House of Nanking is rubbish. There are so many better places in the city. It's a tourist thing because no one knows what's up. Ton Kiang for the best dim sum in SF and NorCal. Go to the Richmond District for Chinese food. It's priced better and the food is not touristy. It's good stuff. You got ripped off, bro. You don't need to have fried rice cooked in front of you. It's silly and something folks around here don't care about.
@@J3unG Well, thanks for your advice. We enjoyed it.
@@J3unG Ton Kiang closed years ago
Love the food in San Francisco. The best pizza I ever had was from a place at Pier 39, but that sadly has been gone for some time. The first time I had Chinese Food was in Chinatown in San Francisco when was young and have enjoyed going to Chinatown since.
Try Papa Ray's in San Francisco. No one knows about this spot. Thin crust, good cheese, good sauce, good flour. Not NYC but different and way better than any other spot in the city.
Thanks, I will do it the next time I am in the city.
The Streets of San Francisco. A Quinn-Martin production. Starring Karl Malden. Co-starring Michael Douglas. This week's episode, a crazed world traveler decimates the city's food supply. Brought to you by Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat 😂 my fave food sign in SF: Tasty salted pig parts. Gotta love it all. Great work Mark!
Love it
Fun fact I remember from my alcatraz tour: Unless there might have been a disciplining reason for a limited diet.... The warden insisted that the prisoners in Alcatraz be fed a top-rate diet (by prison standards). He believed that better meals would lead to less angry inmates (and Alcatraz already had the worst/most dangerous inmates to begin with).
Born and raised in SF. Aside from sourdough bread, Dutch Crunch bread especially with a deli sandwich is also a staple growing up here. Also the Richmond District has really good piroshki's and other Russian food, but piroshki's in particular are really popular out here. Also anyone looking to drink a bit should google "Cutty Bangs". And as far as mission burritos "kind of" inspiring Chipotle goes: they DIRECTLY inspired Chipotle. The founder Steve Ellis lived in San Francisco for two years before moving back to Denver and starting Chipotle. There's definitely more that I'm forgetting but dutch crunch sandwiches, piroshkis, and I'd say also lumpia are some additional foods worth getting here. And as far as SF's bad rep: if you ever do accidentally end up in the tenderloin you should stay calm and go eat a banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches). The tenderloin is still a community where families live as well and isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Great video.
On an unrelated note: I just had your short recommended also about not calling San Francisco "Frisco". It's fine. Lots of people here call it Frisco. Being born and raised here I say it all the time and have heard it being used by adults and people my age my whole life since I was a kid (I'm almost 30). I say SF and stuff too but Frisco is used by myself and A LOT of locals here. However, you'll still get some gatekeepers who don't like the term and there's an interesting history to that nickname and its popularity (look up Herb Caen) but more people (who are actually from here) accept its usage than reject it in my experience. I get why the comments were disabled though on the short because it's a sensitive topic for a lot of people. People tend to associate the rejection of the term here with gentrification because it does seem to be rejected more by people who moved to San Francisco and settled there rather than people who grew up there. Nobody really says San Fran here as a nickname though unless they're being ironic about it.
That guy Steve Ellis is a POS I avoid Chipotle like the plague. The rice and beans aren't cooked right, ever. Also, their burrito prices drove up all the mom and pops prices. I will be a Farolito taqueria man until I die, bro.
Love this guy so much info delivered in a broad way which makes this vid timeless. Will hit up the infatuation app for specific places
Nice video Mark! I like the look and the background music!
Everything that has been said is so true. You can't go wrong.
How's the Tadich grill
Liguria Bakery has the best focacchia bread in San Fran. in the North Beach area.
Thanks for the heads up!
See’s peanut brittle is like crack, addictive and you can’t stop eating it until the box is done.
I would also add don't eat at the main wharf/tourist area unless you have to. Everything there is fine, but it's touristy. It's high floor/low ceiling kind of fare. Like Boudin for example, you'll never go there and say it was awful but you'll (likely) never go there and get an amazing real taste of SF you couldn't get elsewhere. Instead, go 2-3 miles off the beaten path and THAT'S where the gems are usually at lower costs as well. I hesitate to even share this because I'd like to be selfish and keep it a secret but Swan Oyster depot is a legit 110+ year old, one-counter small restaurant that has food to die for!
You want a good place locals go to where the scene is good and food is something we can afford: RED'S JAVA HOUSE. They got daily specials which is some kind of sandwich fries and a drink. Prices went up after pandemic but not by much. Quality is still the same though. Fuk. I shouldn't be telling people this. I don't want my joint filling up and driving prices.
@@J3unG thanks for the advise ^^
Im from Germany and im Here to See hidden gems from people WHO live there !
LMAO all the mentions of rice-a-roni
I couldnt find it in a store to put in the video which sucked 😞
@@woltersworld aww! Lol do you think they purposely don't carry it just to mess with tourists? Because that would be so funny 😁
@@yaowsers77 i dont know. But i was looking
Don't expect to find chop suey without a hunt. Or be surprised to find your mu shu comes with tortillas instead of rice paper. And there's a lot more northern Chinese restaurants now in what used to be almost exclusively Cantonese. I agree with you totally on the Mission district. You can travel through not just Mexico but also much of Central America just on Mission and on 24th streets. There's also a lot of smaller chocolatiers (spelling?) and ice cream/gelato places scattered throughout the city.
Actually the prisoners on Alcatraz were fed quite well. It was the wardens way of reducing bad behavior. Most prisoners were overweight.
No rice-a-roni?
All great reception. Just remember use public transportation. All the places are with in bus or train
Especially to avoid car break ins.
YES, Chinatown! You pay with a $5 bill and go sit at a picnic table in the dining room to eat. Ahh.
RIP Anchor Steam 😢
A new owner just bought it last week so it is coming back soon
steam anchor?
What, about seafood 🦞🦐🐟🦪🐙🦑🦀?
*promo sm* 🙄
It's not always cold September October is great weather. Please pronounce Ghirardelli properly
GEAR-a-Dheli. Not how you said it!!!!!
fact check...inmates ate very well while in prison. used as a control device for happy full tummies are content.
It's GHEE-are-DELI. Not JEE-are-DELI.
Also, you ended up going to some of the worst tourist areas in SF that locals never ever go to. It's priced for tourists and the quality of the food is sketchy, bro.
Next time you come out, I recommended going to different neighbourhoods for decently priced good whole food.
Some recommendations:
Richmond district for any Chinese food. Stay out of Chinatown. It's not that great.
Mission District for latin food.
Burritos, etc: Any El Farolito restaurant (I think there's three of them). This is the quintessential SF style burrito, among other things.
Pizza : Papa Ray's pizzas which is the closest you will find of thin crust NY style pizza. It's a good price and they use good cheese and good sauce and good flour for the crust.
Chinese: Go to Ton Kiang in the Richmond District for Dim Sum. They are the best in the city and possible NorCal.
Russian bakery (what!?!?!?) Tblisi bakery in the Richmond district as well. They make poppy seed pastry that is incredible. Also, they make four types of piroshkis. If you get there at noon, they will be HOT.