Bay Area · Cuisine
Filipino
Michelin-star tasting at Naides, Francis Ang’s Abacá on Fisherman’s Wharf, and Daly City’s Fil-Am Cuisine for everyday turo-turo and BBQ skewers.
The Bay Area’s Filipino food story is much larger than one fine-dining room. Daly City and South San Francisco hold bakeries, silog breakfasts, steam-table turo-turo, and family restaurants shaped by one of the country’s largest Filipino communities; newer chef-driven projects have appeared across San Francisco and the East Bay. The stops below pair Restaurant Naides’s Michelin-star tasting, Abacá’s Filipino-Californian room from Francis and Dian Ang, and Fil-Am Cuisine’s long-running Daly City counter for BBQ skewers and cafeteria trays. Read them as three formats on one map, not as a replacement for every neighborhood kitchen.
Focus areas: Nob Hill, Fisherman’s Wharf, Daly City & South San Francisco
Restaurants
Restaurant Naides
$$$$Nob Hill
Michelin-star Filipino tasting on Bush Street from Patrick Gabon and Celine Wuu, pairing traditional flavors with California foraging and fermentation.
Abacá
$$$Fisherman’s Wharf
Filipino-Californian dinner, brunch, and panaderia from Francis and Dian Ang inside the Kimpton Alton on Fisherman’s Wharf; Michelin Recommended, Pinoy Heritage roots.
Fil-Am Cuisine
$Daly City
Daly City turo-turo and BBQ-skewer institution on School Street: cafeteria trays, lumpia, kaldereta, and takeout that has fed the corridor for decades.