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My hot take is Portland has the food scene that SF thinks it has, but I wouldn’t be able to live / eat without Oakland / Fremont / Milpitas / San Jose anyway
My LA friend helped me make peace with my food sadness in SF (I think other than a handful of things I don’t have a great time eating there), he said think of SF as Santa Monica or Beverley Hills. Maybe a few things (like Atelier Crenn) are amazing but it’s low on good and mid range options (I think the East Asian food options in SF are poor, and that I can cook better most times. You may like it a lot if you don’t cook Asian food yourself, ymmv). I also prefer the Mexican foods in east bay. Oakland / Fremont / Milpitas / San Jose is like San Gabriel Valley, where you can get endless great immigrant foods and nice restaurants also.
I think he’s right. A lot of SF food has ossified and gentrified and it just isn’t .. fun, or good, outside of a handful of places that I love.
I really don’t like most of the top restaurants listed as SF faves. I find that even for gentrified food they don’t do a good job.
@skinnylatte This feels wildly accurate. I really felt this way when I lived in The Mission and am glad that’s a neighborhood I visit and don’t live in now. I don’t understand how so many people love it. SF’s food isn’t usually that much better on the west side but at least it’s more interesting and has a greater range.