San Francisco Culinary Schools - Learn to Cook in a City with Innovative Cuisine

With markets offering the finest local foods, neighborhoods eateries serving up authentic ethnic cuisine, and some of the nation's top restaurants, San Francisco is the city for aspiring culinary school students.

Making Its Mark: The Ferry Building Marketplace

Start your culinary exploration of San Francisco at the Ferry Building Marketplace. Find specialty food shops, restaurants, and a fresh farmers' market. Buy great cheese at the Cowgirl Creamery, mushrooms at Far West Fungi, and bread at Acme Bread.

You can also try restaurants like the Hog Island Oyster Company, serving oysters raised by the restaurant's owners; The Slanted Door, offering super-fresh Asian cuisine; and Taylor's Automatic Refresher, featuring California comfort food like ahi tuna burgers.

Be sure not to miss the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in front of the Ferry terminal on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

San Francisco's Neighborhood Food

Next, head to Chinatown for some dim sum. See how fortune cookies are made at Ross Alley, where over 200,000 fortune cookies are produced annually. Then head to Japantown for sushi and other Japanese foods just look for the five-tiered pagoda at its center.

Other ethnic food favorites include burritos in the Mission District, the center of San Francisco's Hispanic neighborhood, and Italian pastries, salami, gelato, and coffee in North Beach.

By the Numbers: San Francisco's Top Restaurants

San Francisco is also a great restaurant town, and the city's top restaurant's range from ethnic eateries, like the Indian restaurant Dosa, to upscale French favorites, like Fleur de Lys, both part of the San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants.

Explore everything the city has to offer San Francisco culinary students, and get inspired by the city's many eateries, food markets, and neighborhoods.

Sources:

• New York Times: "Going to San Francisco"
• San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau
• San Francisco Chronicle: "Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants"

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