Stories By Soleil Ho

  • Best San Francisco restaurants These are the best restaurants San Francisco has to offer, from classics to boundary-pushers.
  • I’m a restaurant critic. Am I fueling gentrification in the Bay Area? Spoiler: It’s complicated.
  • The Bay Area’s 15 best new restaurants of 2022 From fine dining gems in Wine Country to standout East Bay delis.
  • Sublime noodle soup and rich curry: 8 excellent new Bay Area restaurants to try Where to find chewy bagels, superior loco moco and great ravioli.
  • Best Filipino Restaurants in the Bay Area From casual buffet-style spots to upscale restaurants, Filipino food is available at all levels here.
  • The best things I ate in 2022 Pastrami fried rice, live sea urchins, fried cauliflower with tahini — the list goes on.
  • How this Bay Area restaurant is redefining the farm-to-table cliche Oakland’s Pomet is a true collaboration between a chef and farmer.
  • These are the 10 best cookbooks of 2022 Expect creative takes on classics from Bay Area chefs like Reem Assil and Tanya Holland.
  • The secret behind one of the Bay Area's best Ethiopian restaurants Everything at Oakland's Cafe Colucci seems to taste immeasurably bright, with the kind of freshness you might associate with handmade puff pastry or green beans eaten off the vine.
  • S.F.’s Ferry Building has some great snacks. Here are 6 of the best Despite pandemic shake-ups, the San Francisco landmark still features an impressive roster of restaurants.
  • New play puts phở center-stage in a centuries-long cultural appropriation debate On one downtown Berkeley block, phở is both dinner and theater for two Chronicle critics.
  • 20 courses. 4 dining rooms. A secret dessert closet? This Wine Country restaurant is like nowhere else Geyserville’s Cyrus embraces the theatricality of fine dining.
  • San Francisco politics has descended into fan fiction This election day, and really, every day, San Franciscans need to tune out those who want or even need our city to be a hopeless pit.
  • Best ramen restaurants in the Bay Area These are the best restaurants for Japanese ramen in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Palo Alto and the rest of the Bay Area — featuring Ramen Nagi, Marufuku Ramen and more.
  • Warm up with these 8 soothing Bay Area soups, from pho to pozole Staff favorite soups in the Bay Area, with borsch, laksa, cioppino and more.
  • This S.F. Vietnamese bakery is so good I want to keep it a secret I found the best version of a childhood favorite in an unlikely place.
  • Affordable sushi and showstopping pastries: Here are 8 of the Bay Area’s best new restaurants New spots to eat smoky carne asada, flaky pastries and takeout omakase.
  • How a family-run food blog became a home for Chinese America The family behind ‘The Woks of Life’ has written an essential new cookbook.
  • Our critics reveal the telltale signs of great dim sum From tea lists to house-made chile oil, these are the small things that tell us we’re in for something special.
  • This new Bay Area restaurant shocks with incredible Italian food that's all gluten-free With focaccia this good, at Polenteria in Los Gatos, who needs wheat?