Janelle Bitker

This East Bay favorite recently opened a new location. It’s the only one frying up French-style beignets.

Our critics are revisiting criteria — popups, food trucks, scarce seats — and want your input on the 2026 Top 100 Bay Area restaurants list.

Longtime Bay Area reporter Elena Kadvany will be the San Francisco Chronicle’s next deputy editor of Food & Wine.

Elena Kadvany retrieves a vanilla ice cream sample during a blind tasting in San Francisco. The Chronicle food reporter will be the next deputy editor for Food & Wine. (Photo credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle)

Pandan-coconut swirl from Kopi Bar in Berkeley. (Janelle Bitker/S.F. Chronicle)

From a line-inducing cinnamon roll to a supremely understated cookie to an $18 over-the-top pastry, these were the little treats we couldn’t get enough of in 2025.

Having a bad day? You deserve a little treat. A good day? Time for a little treat. No special occasion - or specific circumstance - is needed for a little treat.

We have two restaurant finder tools powered by more than 1,300 reviews and recommendations from the Chronicle’s Food & Wine team.

After opening a ghost kitchen and then losing its first brick-and-mortar to a fire, Jungdon Katsu is back with ethereally crunchy pork.

Hernandez’s nomination continues a tradition of acclaimed restaurant criticism at the Chronicle.