For out-of-towners, San Francisco is a culinary “big white blank,” said Raymond Sokolov in The Wall Street Journal. Most of the gastronomic praise in Northern California goes to places across the bay—Chez Panisse in Berkeley, or Oliveto in Oakland—or to such wine-country meccas as Thomas Keller’s French Laundry in Yountville. No San Francisco restaurant can boast that kind of veneration, but more than a few attain “a national standard of excellence while upholding local traditions and ingredients with pride and identity.” Here are two that hungry travelers can always count on:
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