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Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Humphry Slocombe’s Secret Breakfast

Influential as it is delicious, the iconic local flavor inspires knock-offs and even a 420 tribute.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: SF Live

Golden Gate Bandshell to Union Square, free music series sets the city's beloved spaces to a beat.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Bottega

A late-night, no-reservation plate of sachetti on Valencia? Nonna would be proud.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Arion Press

Literary time travelers reach back to classics—and into roster of contemporary Bay lit stars—to make ever-more-popular pages.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Starter Bakery

Kouign amann aside, it's community care that has us hooked on these inventive East Bay ovens.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Key Jo Lee

MoAD curator and scholar shines light for artists moving through complex times.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Fake Fruit

Group's debut outing perfectly revindicated post-lockdown Bay culture. Praise, its second LP just dropped.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: ‘Another Word for Love’ by Carvell Wallace

“I write about beautiful things because I live in an ugly place in an ugly world."

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature

Once a historic bakery, 1501 Grant now slings the finest English and Italian-language books in a much-needed community event space.

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Cal Performances

Berkeley series' 119th season continues a visionary streak of diversity, from South African chamber opera to Brazilian folkloric ballet.

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Welcome back to the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay! This is our 41st edition of Best of the Bay, and it comes out on the Bay Guardian’s 50th anniversary. Here and in print at more than 350 shops, cafes, and stores throughout the Bay Area, you’ll find the results of our Readers Poll and our exclusive Editor’s Picks. Thanks to the more than 9,000 people voted in our Best of the Bay Readers Poll this year – an incredible number!

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