San Francisco’s Outside Lands music festival is a nod to what the city’s west side used to be called when it was just big old mountains of sand. But the area’s food and drink scene has come a long way over the last hundred and fifty-odd years. Where the city’s beachfront amusement park once stood is now home to Andytown Coffee and its It-Its affogato. Arizmendi Bakery holds it down on 9th Avenue, though the co-op is closed for six to eight weeks of repairs as of February 2024.
Any of these 16 restaurants, bars, and bakeries put respect on the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods. Beloved Northern Chinese restaurants and Indian pizza parlors and ice cream shops mingle on the same streets, like the various plants brought to San Francisco through its various occupiers, eucalyptus next to palm trees next to magnolias.
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