The San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants List is Back

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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After six long years, The San Francisco Chronicle has revived its annual Top 100 Restaurants list. Critics MacKenzie Chung Fegan and Cesar Hernandez join us to share their picks, their process, and their personal food obsessions. We’ll take a tour of the restaurants that made this year’s list, and dish about what makes a restaurant truly “top” – from Michelin-worthy tasting menus to perfectly grilled fish tacos. What Bay Area restaurant would you rank #1? Guests: MacKenzie Chung Fegan, restaurant critic, The San Francisco Chronicle Cesar Hernandez, associate restaurant critic, The San Francisco Chronicle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	Thank you. From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.7	Last night, the San Francisco Chronicle finished releasing its top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area. After a six-year
0:56.8	hiatus, the list returned spearheaded by food critics McKenzie Chung Fagan and Caesar
1:02.4	Hernandez. And it's really a beautiful tribute to the creativity, skill, and diversity of our
1:09.0	food scene. We're going to talk about the list, the themes that emerge
1:12.6	from it, and of course, we'll consider your favorites in and out of the top 1002. That's all coming
1:19.1	up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:38.5	With all of the TikTok food content and the influencer accounts of Instagram, I have to admit that I still
1:45.8	like my food criticism delivered the traditional way by critics who have thought deeply
1:50.5	about our region's restaurant scene and can write about the chefs and cuisine in thought
1:56.0	provoking ways. Weird I know but true. So I am delighted that we have our San Francisco Chronicle Food Critics with us to tell us all about the triumphant return of the Chronicles' top 100 list.
2:09.5	Joined by McKenzie Chong Fagan, Restaurant Critic with the San Francisco Chronicle.
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