As we come up to a long holiday weekend, we thought we’d share some cool food we got to try from the last holiday that we spent traveling.  Over Presidents Day weekend, we used our three days off to go out to the west coast and visit San Francisco.  We’ve been there before, but we felt like there were still things we wanted to see, so we headed out again.  We went to a bunch of museums in the city, but we also spent one day driving south down the coast and seeing some of the sites along that stretch of California as well.  So we’ll show you some cool food we got to try while there (but just be warned that there are some pictures of meat in this post).

Let’s focus on San Francisco first, and specifically some of the great pizzas we tried there.  The Bay Area isn’t typically known for its pizza, but in fact there are several well-regarded pizza places in the city and we decided to go all over to try them out.  The first spot we went was Del Popolo, where we got this margherita pizza with burrata added on top.

Next up was Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, which has a very extensive and creative menu of pizzas – but we decided to go with simplicity and got a margherita pizza there too, since this pie won a prize at a pizza contest in Naples.

We also sampled the vegetarian pizza – made with olives, peppers, mushrooms, green onions and garlic – from Tomasso’s …

… a deep dish red top margherita from Capo’s …

… and from PizzaHacker’s Mission Street location, one margherita with goat horn peppers added on top …

… and one Ohio pizza, made with pepperoni, provolone, mozzarella, and pepperoncini peppers.

We also got a full meal – pizza plus some other good food – at Delfina.  Their pizza of the day was the chicories pie, topped with an egg and chicory leaves.

We also shared their house bread with a side of ricotta.

And for entrees, Miriam had the agnolotti dal plin, in a butter and sage sauce.

And Cyril tried the tagliatelle al ragù.

On our last morning in the city we also decided to go for some sandwiches at Marina Deli – Miriam went with a create-your-own and got provolone, lettuce, jalapeños, tomato and onions on the area’s famous Dutch crunch bread.

And Cyril had the big burrito, made with eggs, bacon, salsa, onions and peppers – but on a Dutch crunch roll as well instead of a tortilla.

And we also brought home some chocolate chip cookies from Kara’s Cupcakes.

On our trip out of the city, we visited Hearst Castle and then decided to track down some good food in the nearby town of Cambria.  Lunch was at Sandy’s Deli, where Miriam got the junior veggie, made with pepper jack cheese, avocado, sprouts, tomato, onion, mayo and soy-bacon bits.

Meanwhile, Cyril had the turkey club, stuffed with turkey, ham, bacon, cheddar cheese, cucumber, sprouts, pepperoncini peppers, lettuce, tomato and pickles.

Also in Cambria, we came across Red Moose Cookie Company, which is a really fun storefront because they’re very generous with giving out samples.  After trying basically everything, we bought ourselves some Peanut Butter Dream cookies …

… and we also went with the Root Beer Float cookies, which have spices and a root beer reduction in their dough.  It was suggested that we make an ice cream sandwich with these cookies, so we brought them home and that’s exactly what we did.

We really got to try a lot over the course of three days – a bunch of pizzas and also some good sandwiches, pastas, and a few sweet treats.  The San Francisco pizza was pretty good, especially if you go for tried and true margherita and red pies, and we always enjoy the chance to get some sandwiches made with good San Francisco breads.  We managed to squeeze in all these great eats in between visiting museums and driving up and down the coast, and it made for a tasty way to round out our trip.  Now we’ve got Memorial Day weekend coming up, and we’ll share with you soon what kinds of food we got to try while traveling for this next holiday.