You can both enjoy a pre- or post-flight meal and pick up some snacks or groceries if you plan a pitstop at the only San Francisco outpost of beloved Korean grocery store H Mart. The food court offers a handful of dining options (including LeftWing for Korean fried chicken wings and Paik’s Noodle for, duh, noodles) but the pro-move is to hit up the tiny outpost of Daeho Kalbijim & Beef Soup. You’ll want a crew to take down the enormous braised beef rib stew, which comes absolutely buried under a torched layer of cheese and overflowing with bouncy rice cakes.

This family-run diner located in the Westlake strip mall has long been a home away from home for Japanese expats in the Daly City area. At Tani’s kitchen, home-style comfort food is the name of the game: curry plates topped with tonkatsu or a Japanese-style hamburger, assorted rice bowls, and thick-cut tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omelette) that regulars swear is the fluffiest and tastiest version around. It’s also a good spot to load up on solid, unfussy sushi and sashimi.

Since 2008, this Daly City standard has been serving garlic fried rice and egg-topped plates of Filipino comfort food by both day and night. You might associate silogs with breakfast meals, but at Tselogs there’s nothing to stop you from ordering sisigsilog made with moist, garlicky shredded chicken for lunch or dinner — and don’t forget a side of tiny lumpia Shanghai, too.

Koi Palace’s reputation — as, perhaps, the Bay Area’s most acclaimed Chinese restaurant — precedes it, as anyone who’s waited in line for two hours for Sunday morning dim sum can attest. Even a couple of decades in, the restaurant still sets the gold standard for all the classics like har gow, rice rolls, and baked char siu bao and the kitchen also slices up some of the finest crispy-skinned roast suckling pig in all the land, if you’re lucky enough to snag an order before they sell out.

This tiny old-school sandwich shack in South San Francisco is known for serving some of the Bay Area’s biggest sandwiches — literal foot-long, big-as-your-forearm monsters that are about as generous and well-built as a sandwich can be. A “Little Lucca Combo” on Dutch crunch, with extra garlic sauce, might be the Bay Area’s definitive take on a classic Italian combo, and plenty of regulars will make a special trip on Tuesdays and Fridays when the Fish Combo (featuring a cold seafood salad) is available.

If the Mission-style super burrito is San Francisco’s most iconic original food creation, then Taqueria San Bruno is the closest, most convenient spot where you can snag a truly stellar, and truly gigantic, version on the way either to or from the airport — with planes literally taking off above your head. It bears repeating: These super burritos are comically oversized and loaded with meats (as are the breakfast burritos for that matter, if you’ve got an early flight). The charred carne asada is probably the people’s choice, but the taqueria is also known for serving some of the area’s better fish and shrimp tacos.

Not all that much appears to have changed since this classic pancake house first opened its doors in 1959, and it remains a local favorite for a hearty, affordable American-style breakfast. The thin, crepe-like Swedish pancakes, served with lingonberry butter, are the specialty. Conveniently, if you don’t want to commit to a whole stack, a couple of them come included on the side if you order one of the more ambitious breakfasts — steak and eggs, say, or a big three-egg omelet.

The only thing that’ll kill you is the parking situation, which is an exercise in extreme patience at just about any time of day. But once you make it to the front of the line (or, better yet, opt for online ordering), the virtues of this classic seafood market and restaurant are self-evident: maybe the Bay Area’s most convincing version of a Maine-style lobster roll, which purists can order plain, with just a tub of drawn butter on the side. There are also Dungeness crab sandwiches to be had, if you want to stick with a more local crustacean treat. In addition to curbside pickup, there’s also outdoor patio seating available.