Topic: Culinary Regions of California (San Francisco Bay)

Edited 12/31/2013

The Golden Gate Bridge, an icon of San Francisco.

The San Francisco Bay (SFB) region is comprised of San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, and the western portions of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

The area shown in red is the San Francisco Bay culinary region.

The region is characterized by innovations inspired by different cuisines, mostly from immigrants who moved to San Francisco from other countries.  It is, in this regard, similar to the cuisine of New York City.  The key difference is that countries with a Pacific coastline, and also Latin American countries, have had more influence on San Francisco because of the shorter distance.  The other parts of the region (besides San Francisco) are included due to culinary sprawl, a topic discussed in the last post.

It is possible that there will be numerous topics on the region, due to the wide culinary diversity even within the region.