A Mission Food Tour to Satisfy All the Senses
You know you're in the right place for a food tour when edible options extend for three hours. During this visit to The Mission, stop at several place to try some seriously zany and delicious bites. Pop into hole-in-the-wall hideaways, mingle with street food vendors and check out some local favorites. Come hungry and bring your sense of adventure. You'll try about 10 different foods during this mouth-watering experience.
For: Foodies of all ages. Dieters on a Cheat-day. People who enjoy eating. People who loves variety.
Start with breakfast and wash it down with hand-crafted coffee. Continue wandering through the culinary playground, eating all the while. A tour of the neighborhood would be incomplete without a famous burrito, though with so many treats to try, expect strong competition for the best cuisine.
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Reviews
If Lynn's glamour shot above hasn't already sold you, then the pictures of the food should. This tour is perfect for everybody. Every resident in SF calls themselves a foodie. I'm the lone wolf that is not a foodie. I don't go out of my way to research the most exciting hidden restaurants and am generally behind the curve. So it was perfect for me to follow around someone like Lynn who knows the ins and outs, and get hand-held through all of the culinary delights hiding behind back alleys and on secret menus. Warning: I got cramps from eating so much. Or maybe it was the laughing with good company. Or both. Either way, this hasn't happened since childhood. Be careful out there in the field soldiers.
From bacon maple doughnuts to burritos, strawberry rhubarb pies to tamales, it's hard to go wrong with this decadent food tour. I've lived in SF for 7 years now and I found some new favorites I didn't even know existed. Come hungry, because this is going to be a food experience you're not going to forget.
I was going to use the phrase "come hungry, leave happy" but it seems you'll just get mental pictures of mediocre pancakes doused with maple syrup, but that's the OPPOSITE of what this tour is. I live in San Francisco and consider myself "food savvy" for lack of a non-snooty term, and I've never even been to many of these places. We filled ourselves with bacon and maple glazed donuts, all sorts of pie, Mission hot dogs, delicious burritos, ice cream, and lots of drinks. My favorite part was ducking into this underground market for pupusas that I didn't even know existed despite passing by the intersection at least a dozen times. We were also able to check out some art and experience the vibrant culture of the Mission district thanks to Lynn's intimate knowledge and sense of pride for her neighborhood.
Lynn is clearly a Mission native, through and through. We got a whirlwind tour through the entire mission district, stopping at some of the local institutions (Bi-Rite, Tartine, Humphrey Slocombe) as well as a few out of the way gems (A wonderful Salvadorian place tucked inside a meat market). It's really fascinating to explore the diversity of the Mission through food as well as experiencing the peaceful co-existence of the older Latin American culture with the newer, young urban vibe. Fantastic and well worth the time!
