Welcome to our special Good Taste newsletter!
Outside Lands and PIstahan offer a great array of dishes to sample, and celebrate.
By Tamara Palmer
Welcome to Good Taste’s first weekend newsletter—giving you the inside scoop on the Bay Area's wonderfully diverse food & drink scene, especially for our paid subscribers!
We are just getting started, and I’m glad you are here. I’m thrilled to start sharing my best advice for fun places to go and eat on Saturdays and Sundays, including spotlights on Bay Area cities and towns, self-guided walking tours, and the latest creative food finds. We will also be building a database of perks for paid subscribers. I don’t think there is a lot of weekend-focused food coverage in our region, and I look forward to filling that void! I’ve always got so many places and dishes that I want to tell you about, and now there is plenty of space to do that here.
Today’s letter is a quick one, as I’m about to walk to Golden Gate Park for day two of Outside Lands. If you’re headed out there this weekend, take a peek at my obsessive guide to the hundreds of options that are available at this year’s Taste of the Bay Area inside the festival. News reporter Andrew Brobst and I are filming food-centric videos all weekend and sharing them on the 48 Hills Instagram page.
Follow along for restaurant news, secret menu items, and interviews with interesting chefs and food-makers. Most of what we are covering can be enjoyed at restaurants around the region after the festival is done. Pro tip that no one else will tell you: get some Spam musubis from the kids’ stand on 34th Avenue and Lincoln before getting in line at the South Gate.
This weekend was also the return of the 32nd Annual Pistahan Parade and Festival, still going on in Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco until 5pm Sunday. If you miss this lively celebration of Filipino culture, never fear: consult my personal map of Favorite Filipino Spots in the Bay.
My Good Taste column this past week was about the stunningly beautiful new Crustacean restaurant in SF’s Financial District and the incredible An family that has made roasted crab and garlic noodles as iconic as sourdough bread. I can’t wait to go back.
Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and hope to see you out there!
xo,
Tamara