Outer Richmond is the second location for Devil’s Teeth bakery, an Outer Sunset favorite for delicious breakfast sandwiches on hot buttermilk biscuits, cookies, donut muffins, scones, pies, and lunch options like soup and lasagna. The Balboa Street bakery, which opened in 2020, adds wood-fired pizza, thanks to the oven first installed in the space by Marla’s. There’s no wrong order here.

This Inner Richmond spot is much more than a pizza joint, though its pies are beyond reproach. Stop by the cozy, stylish restaurant for dinner or brunch, and feast through the menu of pastas, pizzas, and antipasti. Sister restaurant and bar Violet’s is just down the block, and the emcee-wrapped restaurant sprouted up in the Inner Sunset, too.

Many would argue that PPQ Dungeness Island serves the best crab in the city: Since 2000, they’ve turned out Dungeness cooked fresh to order in a variety of preparations (but roasted is best). Vietnamese-inflected dishes, including rich garlic noodles and crab fried rice, round out the menu.

This cozy neighborhood restaurant from alums of sister spot Pizzetta 211 has become a citywide favorite, serving bright crudos; gorgeous plates of seared scallops; and most importantly, some of the best handmade pasta dishes in town — rounded out by excellent cocktails and desserts. Can’t-miss specialties include the handkerchief pasta dish made with white bolognese and grana padano and the Pearl martini.

Chef Mourad Lahlou’s serves Moroccan comforts out in the Richmond at Aziza, a restaurant that became even more important to the neighborhood during the pandemic. Regulars dig into the chicken basteeya wrapped in pastry, centerpiece braised lamb shank, and hand-rolled couscous. Slide into a banquette for dinner or weekend brunch, when the light-as-air Moroccan pancakes should absolutely not be missed.

The signboard menu at this old-school Cantonese bakery, with prices given in cents instead of dollars, is a throwback to a different era. You won’t find anything resembling an entree here, but the egg custard tarts are the flakiest in the neighborhood, and the meaty baked barbecue pork buns are probably tops in the entire city.

This old-school scoop shop serves ice cream memories straight from your San Francisco childhood, offering standards such as root beer swirl and rum raisin, or more unconventional flavors like wasabi and chai tea. While it’s a fairly no-frills storefront, the fresh parklet covered in cartoon cheeseburgers and ice cream cones — which is wheelchair accessible and just the right size for little kids — is already a hit for ice cream socials.

This James Beard Award-nominated Asian American bakery from a trio of San Francisco fine-dining chefs does everything well: its recognizable bright green kaya toast, Asian coffee drinks, an ever-changing lineup of cakes and pastries, yogurt drinks, and tidily cut sandwiches on soft milk bread.

There are several great Burmese spots in the Richmond but Mandalay did it first, opening in 1984, back when tea leaf salad was a novelty to most. Its known for homey standards like samusa soup, as well as specials like the Rangoon spicy fish along with fragrant noodle dishes and the best fermented tea leaf salad in town — a rendition of the classic without lettuce or cabbage.

The Outer Richmond’s Russian community constantly filters through this cheerful Geary Boulevard bakery and cafe, which peddles everything from freshly baked rye loaves and Ritual Coffee to entrees like borscht and chicken kiev. Don’t sleep on the pelmeni (Russian boiled meat dumplings in broth) or the blinchiki (rolled crepes filled with sweet cheese, mushrooms, ground beef, caviar or Nutella). Cinderella is also one of the only places in the Bay Area to get housemade kvas, a sweet, vaguely alcoholic-tasting, bubbly concoction made from fermented rye bread.

Sommeliers and civilians alike sidle up to this unpretentious Clement Street wine bar reopened in 2013 by former busboy-now-owner Emrah Kilicoglu. For the uninitiated, it’s a cozy place to work through lamb loin kebab and whatever wine the house recommends. For those working in the industry, it can be a see-and-be-seen-type event, a moment to dash through a bottle of Syrah with one of the Bar Habibi guys before tomorrow morning’s opening shift.

This Michelin-starred Clement Street sushi restaurant pivoted temporarily to takeout versions of chirashi, bentos, and omakase during the pandemic, but reopened for indoor dining — and eliminated takeout — in July 2021. Chefs Atsushi-san and Tomo-san debuted a new menu at the same time, adding dishes like dashimaki filled with mentaiko and sansho pepper whipping cream, and chawanmushi with pike eel, shiitake, shrimp, sea urchin, and smoked trout roe.