Conjuring up nostalgia for California and the best, upscale restaurant of my youth, I often look back on the many memories I’ve had here, before I moved to New York and went from taking visitors to this old haunt to being the visitor anxiously awaiting a window seat and salivating over the foggy views.

Nostalgic-gawking aside, I had a mission in The Mission: to find, consume, and document a popular, breakfast-themed muffin.

On a work trip to San Francisco, I indulged in a famous, Beard Papa cream puff one morning as a silly, saccharine reward for a long week.

A stroll in San Francisco isn't complete without a final stop at The Buena Vista for a fog-lifting Irish coffee. 

Ahh Brenda's. The mere thought of this funky, food-forward brunch all-star in the unassuming Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco brings sighs of delight from my mouth and groans from my stomach.