San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
9 new must-try Bay Area restaurants, pizza to ramen
The final weeks of 2022 saw a push for restaurant openings throughout the Bay Area. We have excellent new places to slurp fresh ramen noodles, eat Vietnamese bao and hot pot, and enjoy beautiful Mexican interior design and food. The Chronicle Food + Wine team spent the month of December visiting the region’s new restaurants and selected the best for this list. Read on for nine you should try, listed alphabetically.
Angie’s Pizza
John McCloskey opened Angie’s Pizza in the Mission District after learning the art of pizzamaking at popular San Francisco spots Pizzetta 211 and Pizzahacker, and his thin-crust pies are reminiscent of both places. He makes a naturally leavened dough with fresh-milled flour and leans toward seasonal, produce-heavy toppings, like kale and maitake mushrooms. The date pizza ($21), with mozzarella, goat cheese, bacon, thin ribbons of radicchio and ample chile, is at once smoky, spicy and sweet. Several small plates are cooked along with the pizzas in a large wood-fired oven in the middle of the restaurant, including spicy, tender meatballs ($15) doused in a vodka sauce. (Hold onto the sauce as a dip for your pizza crusts.) And save room for dessert: ice cream sundaes ($9) courtesy of Good Children, a hit San Francisco dessert pop-up. Scoops of luscious vanilla and coffee ice cream arrive in charming, peachpink coupe glasses, with toppings like poached apple and pecan streusel or whiskey sauce and shortbread. Angie’s has a funky, old-school pizzeria vibe, with wood-paneled walls and vinyl spinning on a record player.