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All You Can Eat: Yes, the Bay Area Does Have a Late Night Dining Scene

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

If you’re looking for a great meal after midnight, you’re unlikely to find a wealth of options in downtown San Francisco. But expand your search to the Bay Area’s suburban communities, and you’ll find a late-night dining scene that’s brimming with hot pot restaurants, noodle shops, taco carts, and 24-hour casino buffets. Nocturnal noms are the subject of a new collaborative series from KQED’s food editor Luke Tsai and illustrator Thien Pham, called “Midnight Diners.” On the next edition of All You Can Eat, we’ll talk about the local restaurants that keep us fed when we’re staying up late and whether the Bay Area deserves its early-to-bed reputation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED.

1:09.4

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

1:11.5

People like to say that San Francisco is not a late-night town.

1:15.3

People don't even bother to say that about Oakland or San Jose or Santa Rosa because, of course,

1:19.5

they're not either.

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But that doesn't mean there aren't some late-night dining spots, and KQED's food editor,

1:25.7

Luke Sy, and illustratorrator Tin fam have been visiting them

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for a collaborative series called the Midnight Diner's Hot Pot restaurants, noodle shops,

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taco carts, 24-hour casino buffets. We'll talk about all of it for our latest edition

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of All You Can Eat that's coming up next right after this news.

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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Before I hosted a 9 a.m. show, before I had two small children, before I had even turned 18, I already had a favorite late-night place. It was called montage and was located directly beneath Portland's Morrison Bridge. Exactly the kind of place a curious teen could peer at what adults were up to. They served mac and cheese, banged pots and pans to wake up passing out drunk patrons,

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and seemed to be having a dangerous amount of fun at all times.

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The late night place, that is to say, has long held a special place in my heart.

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