California: San Francisco
With apologies to the fish tacos and Cali burritos of SD, and the Dodger Dogs, Apple Pan burgers, and French dips
of LA, and that one place in Sacramento that gives you a giant thing of
burnt cheese with your burger, San Francisco still wears the food
princess tiara in the Golden State. Is it a shock that chefs almost
unconsciously cite NYC and SF in the same sentence when they discuss
going to a city to learn how to really cook? Is it strange that, despite
its relatively middle-of-the-road population size (13th in the country
behind Austin and Jacksonville), it is the most restaurant-dense city in
America and routinely cleans up at national Beard Awards?
Should we start name-dropping now? How about the internationally lauded food at Al's Place, State Bird Provisions, and Mission Chinese? Insanely good pizzas from Del Popolo, Tony's, and Flour + Water? The best burritos in the world at La Taqueria and El Farolito?
Crazy-delicious baked goods everywhere, including kouign amann at b.
patisserie (which basically started a national kouign amann trend,
despite the fact that no one can pronounce it)? Can we stop asking
rhetorical questions now and move on to another state?
Nevada: Las Vegas
We were originally going to say Tahoe. Then we thought about Reno. And
then we decided we're not assholes, but debated making a joke about
buffets... but come on. We're better than that. So is Vegas...
and if you need us to tell you it's more than shrimp cocktail and
getting side-eyed by a guy named Lefty, well, maybe Reno is all you
deserve. We hear the buffets are nice.
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