Whats the best restaurant in your neck of the woods?

[KamaAina]

113. In the Bay Area?

Are you trying to start World War III or something? We take our food very seriously out here.

We're talking about a place where not only do people put "restaurant designer" under "Occupation" on their 1040s, but they've picked over the supply of historic buildings to redo in San Francisco so thoroughly that they've now set their sights on Oakland across the bay!

The one thing I can tell you is that the best restaurant in the Bay Area is not at Fisherman's Wharf. Neither are any of the next ten. Or one hundred. Or... well, you get the idea.

Super-duper expensive places would include Chez Panisse in Berkeley, still going strong decades after it attracted so many competitors to north Berkeley that the area is called the "Gourmet Ghetto", and the French Laundry up in Napa County. More moderate places are far too numerous to name; I'm partial to John's Grill right near the cable car turnaround in SF, which is done in a Sam Spade/Maltese Falcon theme.