{"id":478689,"date":"2026-09-28T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478689\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:40:09","slug":"bay-area-featured-in-wallethubs-best-foodie-cities-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478689\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area featured in WalletHub\u2019s best foodie cities \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose were among the Bay Area cities listed in WalletHub’s “Best Foodie Cities in America”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The list features 182 U.S. cities and compared the areas across 28 metrics of foodie-friendliness. The cities are graded on two benchmarks: affordability and diversity, accessibility and quality.<\/p>\n

San Francisco the overall rankings was placed third behind Miami and Portland. The city placed second in diversity, accessibility and quality rank, but 176th on affordability.<\/p>\n

San Francisco also features a high number of restaurants per capita with one of the best selections of affordable restaurants rated at least 4.5 stars, which landed it high on WalletHub’s list.<\/p>\n

The city was also rated due to the 25 Michelin star restaurants it has, including Atelier Crenn<\/a>, Benu <\/a>and Quince<\/a>, who have three stars. San Francisco also has a large number of food festivals and cooking schools.<\/p>\n

It is also the nations leader in herb and spice shops, international grocery stores and craft breweries per capita.<\/p>\n

Oakland placed 23rd overall and 16th on the diversity, accessibility and quality rank.<\/p>\n

San Jose was placed at 41st, Santa Rosa 57th and Fremont 129th.<\/p>\n

Other Northern California cities listed include Sacramento at No. 9 and Stockton at No. 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose were among the Bay Area cities listed in WalletHub’s “Best Foodie Cities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[143,101,103,102,88,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-478689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-oakland","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-jose","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}