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Heading to San Francisco for a vacation or holiday? Well here we go through some of the best eats in San Francisco from Mission Burritos to Sourdough bread to Ciopino and more! SF has so many great restaurants and opportunities to eat you will love your eating in San Francisco.
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walter's World and today we're in San Francisco
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and today I want to talk about what you should eat when you come here to San Francisco because
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you know what? You don't have to eat like the inmates on Alcatraz. You can eat fantastically
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when you are here and so I want to give you some of the kind of main staples, the traditional foods
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you should have when you do come here to San Francisco. The thing is, if we think about food
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from San Francisco, probably the most famous food from San Francisco that people really associate
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with San Francisco is sourdough bread. And yes, there's tons and tons of bakeries around town
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Heck, you can go to Fisherman's Wharf and have one of the famous bakeries here and have their sourdough when you're here
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But sourdough bread, because of the climate that's right here, and you'll notice if you go 30 miles outside of town
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the weather is completely different. But this climate has actually helped that sourdough
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get the taste that it has. When you're here, have the sourdough bread
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And the best way, I think, for you to kind of get a two-for-one if you're trying to get sourdough bread
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is get clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. And then that is something that's truly San Francisco
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Because yes, you can have clam chowder anywhere you go in the world, New England clam chowder, whatever
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But here they put it in that sourdough bread bowl. Oh, so good
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So you get two for the price of one when you get that clam chowder in the bread bowl
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So that's two things you're really sure to have. And when you come here to San Francisco, since it's on the coast
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you have so many different great seafoods you can have when you're here. One thing you really should try is Dungeness Crab
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and I will tell you this, Dungeon's Crab is not like when you're going to get your crab legs at Red Lobster
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It is a different type of crab than snow crab and snow crab legs and stuff like that
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So what I would say is if you're gonna have Dungeon's Crab and they haven't already like taken it out for you
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they just bring it to you, it's okay to ask the people there, could you help me
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Can you teach me how to get the meat out of a Dungeon's Crab? Because it is a bit different
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And if you don't wanna do the work, you can actually get Crab Louie, which is basically like a crab salad
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So it's the Dungeness crab, which if you didn't know, it's a little bit sweeter than kind of like snow crab legs and stuff
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And then there's asparagus. You have iceberg lettuce in there. There's these green chili peppers that are all chopped up in there, like a mayonnaise base of egg
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I mean, it's just really kind of a fancy crab salad. And it's one of those like more refreshing things to get when you are here
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But I will tell you with the weather in San Francisco you don really need to like refresh very often because it usually kind of cool when you are here Which is helpful with seafood because hey it helps keep it fresh I guess
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And I think another really important seafood you should have when you hear a shellfish release is Pacific Oysters
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And they are delightful. If you get it with a little bit of the horseradish on there and some of the other things on there, it's so good
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And they'll serve in different ways for you. But just Pacific Oysters on the half shell, get six of those as a starter for yourself
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Or maybe a dozen. And if you and your sweetie are here, it's well worth getting. And they are phenomenal
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And the thing is, if you're looking for something a little more hearty, you could actually go with cioppino. And cioppino is basically a seafood stew
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So it's got tomatoes and it's got shellfish in it. It's got fish in there
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And it's one of these things that Italian immigrant fishermen that came here to San Francisco developed themselves
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So there'll be calamari in there. There'll be clams in there. There'll be mussels in there
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It's just this really wonderful kind of broth that's in. So you want to have that when you're here
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If you're in North Beach, there's a lot of Italian restaurants there. You can get it out, but I mean, you can get great pasta there too
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You can get great pizza there too, so you have that. I mean, there's no problem eating well when you are here in San Francisco
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That's why if you want to kind of explore out more, San Francisco has some of the best
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Asian restaurants in the United States. And yes, you can go to Chinatown and go there and have dim sum, like a little bunch of different
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dumplings to try. Oh, it's so good. I highly recommend it. But if you want to try like nicer Chinese food, really good Chinese food, here's fantastic
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Japanese food, Korean food, Thai food, so many great, great, great Asian cuisines here in San
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Francisco that if you haven't had some kind of Asian cuisine in the US before, you haven't got
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a chance to travel there, this is the place where you try it and you really learn if you really love
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it. And believe me, you will because oh my god, it is so good when you're here. But I will tell you
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one thing I have to warn you, one of your favorite Chinese add-ons whenever you get your takeaway
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Chinese food isn't actually Chinese. It's from here in San Francisco. And that's fortune cookies
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Yes, fortune cookies are actually from San Francisco. You can actually do a tour to see where they're made, all right
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So just know that, yeah, that I thought it was the most Chinese thing we got in every meal
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No, no, no. It's right after like crab rangoon in terms of really Chinese
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Another neighborhood I recommend you go in to look for food is actually the Mission District. You have really great Latin American cuisine that's there
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And I think one of the kind of fusion kind of things that come about over the years are Mission Burritos And you know what burritos are You have them all the way These are kind of like what inspired Chipotle because you have the meat You have cheese in it Sour cream guac You have rice You have beans I mean it is a full meal And if you
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get a mission burrito or just a burrito, you're going to be more than full. Okay, I'm just going
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to tell you that right now. They'll wrap it up in a tin fill. You'll probably eat half of it. Take the breast home for later because it'll still be good. But honestly, if you're in the
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Mission District, you'll find a lot of Latin American cuisine there and you can really enjoy Now, if you're looking for something sweet that's famous from San Francisco, you have
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Girodeli chocolate. I mean, there's Girodeli Square you can go to, see how they make chocolate
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There's chocolate, Girodeli chocolate stores around town. You can go and have that
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And it's a little bit bolder chocolate flavor. And you can get the chocolates, of course
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But probably the thing that people recommend, like I was at a restaurant over here, they're like, don't eat our dessert
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Go down to Girodeli and have their sundae with their chocolate on it. I'm like, okay, I'll go do that
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But yeah, Girodeli chocolate is actually from here. so it makes a good gift to take home to your family and friends as well
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I think San Francisco has given us a lot of really good foods, a lot of good treats in the U.S. over the years
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Did you know the kind of American version of Irish coffee? That's from here in San Francisco
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Yeah, you can go to the Buena Vista Cafe, and they'll put it together just right with the right amount of hot coffee
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the right amount of Irish whiskey, and the right amount of, you know, too-too-too whipped cream
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You can't go wrong. Even the sea lions are barking for it because they know how good it is. And if you're looking to find that Irish coffee, you know, the original one
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The Buena Vista is literally where you're hopping on to get the cable cars. I mean, look, they're backed up right here
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We have a Fisherman's Wharf. It's literally right there. Walking from kind of like Pier 39 and going to the Geo Deli, you'll pass it on the way
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So if you want to have that Irish coffee to get you through the morning or afternoon or early evening
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Buena Vista is right there, right by the cable cars and down the street from the bottom of Lombard Street
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So that's why. Also, if you're looking for an after-dinner treat or just when it's a warmer day kind of treat
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or any kind of treat, there's a bunch of ice cream placed around town. Byride's one of the ones here in San Francisco you can get
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I have roasted banana and creme brulee. Lots of cool flavors, and they're quite tasty
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So maybe grab some ice cream when you're going around, too. You know, for an extra little bite to eat when you are here in San Francisco
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Also, if you've ever had green goddess dressing, yeah, the green goddess salad, that's from here as well
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So that dressing, that's from here, too. And some people even say the martini is from San Francisco So you have all kinds of great things to try and thank San Francisco for it not just sourdough bread And if you looking to come here I think there some things you should know about eating in San Francisco before you come One don think restaurants
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are open all day. Like some restaurants are only dinner restaurants and some are only open for
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lunch and then they close in the afternoon and they reopen at dinnertime. So make sure you're
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checking what their hours are before you go to that restaurant. Also, probably a better thing to
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do is to make reservations, especially on the weekend, especially during tourist times. You
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want to have reservations, especially at night or even during lunchtime for some of the more popular
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restaurants around town because there's some fantastic restaurants here and you definitely
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want to go to. So make sure you are making reservations. One thing I will say is some
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places here, I mean, you do tip, I mean, it's the U.S., but I will just say this. Make sure you're
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looking to see if they already added the service charge on to your bill because that might be
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something to look at because some places have been known to you know put a service charger on there
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and then they leave the little line for your tip and you don't realize they already put it on so do take a take a peek at that it doesn't happen very often but enough times and i've been told
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enough times that i think is important to mention and if you're looking to experiment a lot of
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different foods you can go to the fairy building marketplace which has a bunch of different kind of
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market stalls you can go there or kiosk a little i think how they describe it artis food places
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eateries to try a bunch of different stuff you can do that so there's options but the thing is
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you go around town there are so many great restaurants around here the locals they don't
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eat bad they only eat good and so you as a tourist will enjoy that but I will tell you this eating in
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San Francisco is expensive okay so be prepared for that so maybe make it so only your lunch is
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your big meal you go for something smaller you get something like that the crab the crab shack
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kind of things on the side of the you know on the side of the street and some other places and do
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that to save a little cash when you're here because I'll be honest with all this great food
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your budget will blow up very quickly. Almost as fast as your tummy when you eat all the good food here
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And for my adult friends that are coming here, obviously wine. I mean, Napa Valley is like right over there
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You have lots of great wine when you are here. Also, there's a bunch of good craft beers and local beers you can have too
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So there's no reason not to eat and drink local when you come here to San Francisco
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So what are some other great things you think people should have when they come to San Francisco? Let us know in the comments below
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And I'll say bye from here in San Francisco, right by Alcatraz
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