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15 rankings across San Francisco, built from 90 scored dishes. Every ranking compares one dish and nothing else — start with the thing you actually want.
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Burgers
Burritos
- Best Breakfast Burritos 6 dishes ranked · Egg-and-tortilla breakfast burrito, typically with potato or hash brown, cheese, and a meat (bacon, sausage, chorizo, ham, steak/asada) or veggie fillings. Distinct from dinner carne asada / Mission burritos.
- Best California Burritos 6 dishes ranked · San Diego-style carne asada burrito with crispy french fries inside, typically finished with cheese, pico de gallo, and often guacamole and sour cream.
- Best Carne Asada Burritos 6 dishes ranked · Mission or Tijuana/SD-style steak burrito: grilled or plancha carne asada with beans, usually rice, and often guac, crema, and salsa. California burrito with fries is a different dish.
- Best Carnitas Burritos 6 dishes ranked · Slow-braised pork carnitas (pork shoulder/butt cooked until tender, often crisped on the plancha) wrapped in a flour tortilla with rice, beans, salsa, and optionally cheese/sour cream/guac. A taqueria staple distinct from carne asada (grilled steak) and al pastor (adobo-marinated pork).
- Best Al Pastor Burritos 4 dishes ranked · Spit-roasted achiote-marinated pork (trompo / taco al pastor) wrapped in a flour tortilla, usually with rice, beans, salsa, and optional cheese/avocado. Lead protein is pork al pastor, distinct from carne asada or California burritos.
Dumplings
- Best Xiao Long Baos 12 dishes ranked · Shanghainese steamed soup dumplings: a pleated, thin-skinned wrapper holding a pork meatball and hot broth, steamed in a small bamboo basket and eaten with black vinegar and ginger.
- Best Potstickers 5 dishes ranked · Pan-fried pork dumplings — guo tie. A folded wheat wrapper is seared flat-side down until the bottom is lacquered brown and crisp, then steamed in the same pan so the top stays soft and the pork filling turns juicy. Eaten with black vinegar, soy and chili oil.
Noodle Soups
Pizzas
- Best Margherita Pizzas 6 dishes ranked · The Neapolitan classic: tomato, mozzarella and basil on a thin, blistered crust, and nothing else. Judged on the sauce, the pull of the cheese and the char on the rim, with no toppings to hide behind.
- Best Pepperoni Pizzas 5 dishes ranked · A pizza topped primarily with pepperoni (cured, spiced sausage slices that cup and char at the edges when cooked). The named SKU on the menu is 'pepperoni' — not plain cheese, not margherita, not a specialty with pepperoni as one of several toppings. Includes NY-style, Detroit-style, Neapolitan, tavern, and Sicilian pepperoni pies when those are the menu's ranked pepperoni offering.
- Best Cheese Pizzas 4 dishes ranked · Plain cheese pizza — tomato sauce and mozzarella on a baked crust, sold by the slice or as a whole pie. No pepperoni, no margherita basil-forward builds, no deep-dish or stuffed pies.
Sandwiches
Tacos
- Best Birria Tacos 5 dishes ranked · Crispy or soft corn-tortilla tacos filled with slow-cooked birria (beef or lamb), typically dipped or served with consommé. Quesabirria (cheese + birria, griddled) counts when that is the named local crown. Rank the named taco at a restaurant, not the shop as a whole.
- Best Carne Asada Tacos 5 dishes ranked · Grilled marinated steak (carne asada) served in corn or flour tortillas — usually a plate of 2-3 street-style tacos with cilantro, onion, salsa. Rank the named carne asada taco SKU at a taqueria, not the restaurant as a whole, not the burrito version, not the torta.