Sponsored link
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Sponsored link

Welcome to Best of the Bay 2025!

Our 51st annual Readers' Poll celebrates everything that's Best about the Bay Area—chosen by the people who live here.

48 Hills and the Bay Guardian are proud to present the 51st Annual Best of the Bay! Thousands of our readers voted, telling us who they think deserved to be called “best” in dozens of categories like Best Burrito, Best Drag Show, Best Bookstore, Best Street Fair, Best Date Restaurant, Best Dive Bar….

You can find the results in four sections below, with more of our Editors’ Picks published here (with more to come throughout the year, we can’t stop!). As the Bay Area’s daily, independent, nonprofit, community-funded news + arts site, we need your help to keep this tradition alive and continue serving this great community. Please become a sustaining member here to help our work continue. Also please consider advertising with us—we can’t do this without you!

BEST OF THE BAY 2024 READERS’ POLL WINNERS: 

CITY LIVING
Best Salon, Best Bike Repair, Best Podcast, Best Hotel, Best Tour, Best Gym, more

FOOD & DRINK
Best Burrito, Best Best Pizza, Best Brunch, Best Date Restaurant, Best Sports Bar, more

ARTS & NIGHTLIFE
Best Nightclub, Best Art Gallery, Best Drag Show, Best Live Venue, Best Dance Club, more

SHOPPING
Best Bookstore, Best Bike Shop, Best Cannabis Dispensary, Best Shoe Store, more

See last year’s winners here.

Marke B.
Marke B.
Marke Bieschke is the publisher and arts and culture editor of 48 Hills. He co-owns the Stud bar in SoMa. Reach him at marke (at) 48hills.org, follow @supermarke on Twitter.

48 Hills welcomes comments in the form of letters to the editor, which you can submit here. We also invite you to join the conversation on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Sponsored link

Sponsored link
Sponsored link

Latest

Screen Grabs: 25th DocFest bring high-heeled anarchy, Amazing Sea Monkeys, rock stars’ wangs

Oakland tent evictions, queer rights in Cuba, a Palestinian comedy club, NOFX and Grateful Dead jams also on menu.

OPINION: Commissions are about engagement. Abolishing them is a bad idea

I was a commissioner. Then I was fired. Here's why we need more, not less, civic participation

New Melgar-Lurie plan for affordable housing is great; cutting other funding is not

Expanding the Housing Trust Fund could bring in $125 million a year. Repealing Prop. I could wipe out almost as much

A legendary planning commissioner plans to retire after 20 years of exceptional service

Mandelman can now reshape panel to be more developer-friendly. Plus: Dorsey's drug-free housing bill is back—but who's going to pay for it? That's The Agenda for May 24-June 1

You might also likeRELATED