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Butter Croissants San Francisco That Shatter When You Bite Them (In the Good Way)
My friend Margot spent six months in Lyon working for a design firm and came back to San Francisco with exactly one non negotiable food standard that she holds every city and every cafe to without exception or apology. The croissant. Not in a demanding way. Not in the way that some people who have…
Read MoreFresh Pastries San Francisco That Make You Forget You Had Plans to Eat Something Healthy
My friend Vivienne does not consider herself a pastry person. She says this about herself with the confidence of someone who has arrived at a self assessment through years of data collection and is not interested in having it challenged. She eats well, she pays attention to what she puts in her body, she has…
Read MoreBreakfast Sandwiches That Make You Rethink
My friend Wes has a breakfast problem that he acknowledges freely and without embarrassment. He cannot skip it. Not in the way some people say they can’t skip breakfast while clearly being fine about it by eleven. He means physiologically cannot skip it in the way where skipping breakfast turns him into a version of…
Read MoreOat Milk Latte Actually Tastes Like Someone Thought About the Oat Milk
My friend Cleo switched to oat milk about four years ago for reasons she describes as a combination of how she felt after dairy and a general drift toward wanting to know more about what she was putting in her body that happened gradually and without any single dramatic decision point. She didn’t make a…
Read MoreFresh Juice San Francisco That Tastes Like Something Real
My friend Nadia went through a period about three years ago where she became very serious about what she was putting into her body. Not in a dramatic or evangelical way, she didn’t start telling people about it at dinner parties or sending articles to her friends about seed oils, she just quietly started paying…
Read MoreSmoothies San Francisco That Taste Like Actual Fruit Went Into the Blender and Not Just the Idea of Fruit
My friend Rosa is a runner. Not a casual sometimes runner but a six days a week before work regardless of weather or season or how she feels about it runner who has been doing this long enough that it stopped being something she does and became something she is. She runs along the waterfront…
Read MoreBubble Tea That Doesn’t Make You Feel Like You’re Drinking Dessert Through a Straw
My friend Dana has a very specific memory attached to bubble tea and she brings it up every time someone mentions the drink in her presence which is more often than you might expect because Dana runs in circles where food opinions come up constantly. She was seventeen, it was her first time in the…
Read MoreMatcha Latte That Tastes Like Actual Matcha and Not Like a Green Crayon Dissolved in Milk
My friend Suki has a complicated history with matcha lattes in San Francisco that she will tell you about in full if you bring up the subject and she’s had more than one coffee. She grew up spending summers with her grandparents in Kyoto. Her grandmother made matcha the traditional way, with a bamboo whisk…
Read MoreHot Chocolate San Francisco That Tastes Like Someone Actually Cared About the Chocolate
My friend Theo is eight years old and he is the most honest food critic I have ever encountered in my life. He doesn’t have opinions shaped by what he’s supposed to like or what sounds impressive or what everyone else is ordering. He just knows immediately whether something is good or not and he…
Read MoreChai Latte Tastes Like Chai and Not Like Warm Brown Sugar Water
My friend Pita grew up in a household where chai was made from scratch every single morning. Her grandmother had a specific method involving whole spices, loose black tea, full fat milk, and a simmering process that filled the entire apartment with a smell that she still associates with feeling safe and taken care of.…
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