Unique Eats & Eateries San Francisco

When people talk about great food cities, San Francisco rises to the top of the list, and its 49 square miles boil over with mouthwatering ways to whet your appetite. Unique Eats & Eateries San Francisco invites the city's nearly 25 million annual visitors-as well as its food-obsessed residents-to discover the stories and histories simmering behind the front doors of some of San Francisco's most iconic and secret dining spots, markets, and artisanal shops. Want to taste the prize-winning pie of a 12-time World Pizza Champion? Eat your homework at America's only independent cheese school? Talk with the patriarch of a four-generation fishing family? Track down the home of the Mission-style burrito? Or nibble an egg tart in the country's oldest Chinatown? Pull up a chair and crack open Unique Eats & Eateries San Francisco. Seasoned with 90 palate-pleasing bites of San Francisco, this tasty guide will have you booking a trip-and a table or two-to the world's most food-savvy destination.

Kimberley Lovato is a freelance writer in San Francisco whose articles have graced the pages of National Geographic Traveler, American Way, Delta Sky, Virtuoso Life, Virginia Living, Every Day With Rachael Ray, Family Circle and many other print and online publications. Her culinary travel book, Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves, was the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's book of the year in 2012, and her personal essays have appeared numerous times in The Best Women's Travel Writing anthology. When she's not planning her next trip, Kimberley eats her way around the best city in the world. www.kimberleylovato.com