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I'm a native New Yorker but lived in the SF Bay Area for 9 years. I agree with this assessment. The quality for the price in generally better in the Bay Area,
by jortiz81 13y ago
I'm a native New Yorker but lived in the SF Bay Area for 9 years. I agree with this assessment. The quality for the price in generally better in the Bay Area, since a lot of the food is local and super fresh. That said, the diversity of cuisines in NYC in much, much broader than SF. For example, in SF you can find Salvadorian and Mexican food quite easily, but New York has food from all parts of Latin America. The same can be said about other regional cuisines; the selection provides a "finer granularity" of choices for that region.
- bradleyjg 13y agoThat really boils down to a critical mass of the relevant ethnicity. If you don't have enough Thai people in a given area than you aren't going to have Thai markets, which is going to make it very difficult to get the proper ingredients to make a great jungle curry. The sheer number of non-trivial ethnic sub-populations in Queens alone, much less all of NYC, makes it an unfair contest.
- jortiz81 13y agoI mean, none of these are truly fair comparisons. There's no question that there are many things Sf will be better at because of its size and there's other things New York can offer because of its size. But that's what this whole thread is about, comparing the two cities regardless of the root causes for their differences. For example, sf has better quality food in general, since the weather is more forgiving and farms and wineries are quite close. Still, there's no question that the food in sf is of higher quality on average.