American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High

Re:American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High by kelnos on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:18PM (#18868997)

What consensus are you referring to? The Bay Area has fantastic food, many critically-acclaimed restaurants & chefs, and some of the best locally-grown produce and ingredients in the country.

Not saying it's the best; I would certainly rate NYC higher (and with more of long tail cuisine-wise), and would give some other cities a leg up for narrower categories (e.g. LA's Korean food destroys SF easily).

But... "the Bay Area doesn't have very good food"... I'm entirely baffled by that statement.

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Re:American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High by scottlocklin on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:55PM (#18869349)

I think Bay Area is pretty good for US, and as someone said, you get a lot of variety there, but US food is not real good on a world scale. Mostly because of a lack of indigenous cuisine style; almost everything in the US is imitative of some other ethnic cuisine, and the ingredients just ain't gonna match, even if they're comparable in quality (which is rare).

Many of the classic Bay Area foodie places were also super overrated; I always thought Chez Panisse was mediocre, and relatively unknown places nearby (La Limes) were actually better. There were a few real treasures though: I'll miss Aki-san at Sushi Sho.

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