I've lived in the SFBA for nearly my whole life and for as long as I can remember SF has been kind of pretentious with food, even before the recent tech boom.

I've lived in the SFBA for nearly my whole life and for as long as I can remember SF has been kind of pretentious with food, even before the recent tech boom. My non-tech worker friends who are long time residents are into it, but my tech worker friends who moved here for jobs are not. So I don't think the food thing has anything to do with the tech industry. The astronomical rent is a different matter, of course...