LYFE promises healthy food with a socially-responsible conscience, but at least with their burger, it comes up short on flavor. More

Pizza is good. Gummy candy is good. So how about gummy pizza? More

At Hot Italian, each pizza has been named for, well, a hot Italian. Do the actual pizzas live up to the pretty faces that have been attached to them on the menu? More

In the end, the need for an extra bedroom won out over proximity to good pizza. But that doesn't mean our San Francisco contributor, David Kover, won't miss the hell out of living across the street from Pizzeria Delfina. More

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We'd like to argue that, along with sourdough bread, cioppino, Dungeness crab, and Rice-a-Roni*, pizza is one of the things you should be eating if you choose to visit San Francisco. Click through our slideshow to discover the best places to grab a pie as you wind your way through the streets of San Francisco. More

There's an extra thrill that comes with discovering really good pizza in surprising places. More

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For all the assembly-line efficiency that the McDonald's and Burger Kings of this world bring to the process of fast food cookery, they still have to rely on an army of minimum-wage workers to make their hamburgers. At San Francisco's Momentum Machines, they've built a robot to take over the job. We visited their lab to see what this machine looked like. More

Hanover will never be a culinary mecca, but that doesn't mean the students of Dartmouth College don't have a few places to turn for a good burger or a hearty breakfast. Take our food tour of Hanover to get a look at the best options nearby. More

Though Pizza My Heart is known locally for serving up some crazy topping combinations, when it competed at the International Pizza Competition, it claimed victory for best "traditional" pizza using just pepperoni and mushroom. We paid one location of this California chain a visit to try its award-winning pies. More

Almost as soon as we started selling bagels, we found we were due for an equipment upgrade. In order to make enough bagels to meet demand, we desperately needed a new oven. It was time to go shopping for a new bagel oven. More

With our bagel recipe fine-tuned, and our production process scaled up to commercial quantities, it came time for Schmendricks to face our customers. And, really, to see if we had any customers. Turns out we did—a lot of them. More

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Holy hell, the Del Popolo pizza truck is cool! A mammoth shipping container with a wall of windows so you can watch the pizzaiolo, Jon Darsky, fire pies in the 5000-pound, wood-fired oven inside. We've teased you with pictures of this beast before, but now we have the full report! More

Whole animal butchery is all the rage these days, and Ryan Farr is at the head of the movement. We happily report that not only does Farr show some serious skills as a butcher, but also as a cook. The classic fast food-style cheeseburger he offers up at his 4505 Meats stand at the Ferry Building Farmers Market is a definite winner. More

When we discovered that one of our San Francisco contributors had started a bagel company, we immediately asked him to tell us all about it. Last week, he described the process of developing their bagel recipe. This week, he talks about—gulp!—actually taking the leap to starting a bona fide business. A stainless steel commercial kitchen, "breast implant" bagels, and more. More

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Gioia Pizzeria and its New York-style slices with ingredient-driven toppings have always been out of reach for San Franciscans. North Berkeley is just too far to travel on a regular basis when you know a shoe box of a restaurant with only five seats awaits you. But Will and Karen Gioia recently opened a new outpost of their slice shop in San Francisco, and this time it's a full-service restaurant, with a menu that goes well beyond pizza. We visited with Will Gioia to check out the new space and get a look at him making pizzas. More

It's pretty surprising to come across a restaurant that offers beef carpaccio—on top of a pizza. Well, it's on the menu at Dobbs Ferry in San Francisco, though the raw meat isn't the ingredient that dominates this pie. More

Normally, you find David Kover writing about burgers, pizza, and cocktails around here. Little did we know, he's been busy starting a bagel company with his wife and two friends. Could four schmos with little baking experience figure out how to make really good bagels? In San Francisco? In this new series, David will give us a peek into the world of starting a food business. More

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Most kids get pretty excited about the pizza at the school cafeteria. At San Francisco Community School, the students got to end the year by cooking their own pies in a wood-fired oven. Lucky kids! Check out the slideshow of the students making their pizzas. More

What should you expect to find on the menu of a carnival-themed restaurant? Well, a burger served on doughnuts for buns. We paid a visit to Straw, in San Francisco, to see if this combination had any hope of working. More

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Beers from Speakeasy Ales & Lagers seems to have a tap handle in just about every bar around San Francisco. We visited with Kushal Hall, Speakeasy's head brewer, to get a look at the brewing facility, and find out a little about his career in beer—from the time he accidentally emptied the mash tun onto the floor, to the newest beers he's brewing at Speakeasy right now. More

In Sausalito, California, there's a restaurant that so clearly specializes in fish that it calls itself... Fish. We made the somewhat incongruous choice of trying their hamburger. You know what? It's actually pretty good. More

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What the heck's the difference between a flatbread and a pizza? We explored the different types of flatbread on menus in San Francisco and tried to deduce what makes them unique. More

Locanda serves plain pizza bianca to every table at the start of a meal. But they'll also offer to top it for you, like this version covered in stracciatella and fava beans that perfectly evokes Spring. More

We like Rosamunde Sausage Grill for its tasty sausages and the opportunity to bring our food next door to drink beers at Toronado while we eat. We like Rosamunde even more for its Tuesday-only burger special. It's a hefty patty with big grilled flavor that seems a bargain at $6. More

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Beretta was recently included among the semi-finalists for the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Bar Program award. We put the bar manager, Ryan Fitzgerald on the spot and made him select his favorite drinks from the classics-with-a-twist cocktail menu. Here's what he chose. More