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Follow PureWow on Pinterest. SHARE PIN IT From Around The Web. More Stories From our Partners. Manage Your Account Enter your registered email below! Hey, you know what would make your day better? So it figures that a fisherman in a small boat netted a mixed bag of Mediterranean fish, boiled them with some seawater, and threw in a few chopped tomatoes, onions, and whatever else was at hand. Perhaps this is more than you ever wanted to know about cioppino, but my defense is cioppino is sublime.

The Old Poodle Dog, a French restaurant that dated its founding back to , is said to have created the Dungeness Crab Louis in The chef was Louis Coutard, and the salad and dressing were named for him. Today Crab Louis is ubiquitous in San Francisco restaurants. Louis dressing — something like Thousand Island — is usually mayonnaise, chili sauce or ketchup , pickle relish, and a dash of Worcestershire sauce.

I remember Green Goddess salad from when I was a kid, and on special occasions, my folks took me to the Garden Court in the old Palace Hotel. That was good living and good eating. Yes, you can find Green Goddess salad at the Garden Court in the Palace, but not like this: On a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce, place a sliced tomato and sliced hard-boiled egg.

Position an artichoke heart in the center. Fill it with Dungeness crab legs — legs only please. Smother this with Green Goddess dressing — mayonnaise, sour cream, chervil, chives, tarragon, anchovies, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and a bit of minced garlic.

Frontier justice was harsh. There are two versions of the Hangtown Fry story: The first is that a prospector who made his poke of gold nuggets invented the dish. Eggs were very expensive, so were oysters shipped on ice from San Francisco.

The second story is a stopper: A quick-thinking, condemned man in the local hoosegow was asked what he would like for his ritual last meal. An omelet with oysters. Granting his request delayed his hanging, but only for a day. I spoke to the indispensable Alessandro Baccari Jr. This is what he told me:. But the real origin of the dish was the old wholesale produce market, which was where Embarcadero Center is now.

The produce workers were up all night unloading vegetables from the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys. Around midnight they would drop into one of the small cafes that sprang up there and have a Midnight Special — eggs, a few vegetables like spinach or chard, a little ground meat, and maybe a few hot peppers, all scrambled together.

Always the trendesetter, SF has been nomshing on Burmese food, o ne of the rarest cuisines in the U.

NYC recently got their only Burmese restaurant. Our favorite is Mandalay , which is truly OG since Local legends like Mitchell's , Polly Ann and Swensen's have been pushing creamy boundaries since the s and '50s. When Bi-Rite Creamery opened in , their pioneering salted caramel ice cream kicked off a national craze. Where to get it : Humphry Slocombe. With so many award-winning bakers packed intp just a few square miles, everything from kouign amann to croissants are done with perfection from James Beard-winners like Belinda Leong of B Patisserie.

Fellow Beard winner Tartine Bakery opened in with orange-scented morning buns. The country — and world — began copying this version until you could find morning buns everywhere. Where to get it: Tartine Bakery. Filipino food is as integral to the Bay Area as our many other Asian cultures and cuisines. Beloved Filipino food trucks line blocks, including The Sarap Shop and Jeepsilog , but the most famous is Senor Sisig which has been featured on numerous TV shows, popularizing sisig tacos, burritos and fries.

Where to get it: Pinoy Heritage; Senor Sisig. About us. Contact us. Time Out magazine. Photograph: Courtesy John Lee 10 iconic dishes to eat like a local in San Francisco Eat like the locals do with our guide to San Francisco's favorites dishes and cuisines, from burritos to Dungeness crab Written by Virginia Miller Tuesday May 15 Discover the best of the city, first.

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