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Pizza-and-beer-focused Pi Bar has a strong Valencia vibe, moody and guitar-rock-friendly, with just enough rough edges to undercut any taint of pretension. Owner Jen Garris, a fixture on the city's brewing scene, has stocked her coolers with Belgians and saves the taps for local craft beers, favoring the dark and hoppy. The place is best treated like a great neighborhood bar serving snacks. Pi Bar's thin-crust pies are reasonably priced, topped with locally sourced meats and vegetables, and consistently overbaked. Even if you leave your plates covered in unwanted arcs of crust, you're sure to finish your pint and have another one on the way.
So it's not a big space, and it gets crowded. There's nothing to distract your bored children, unless they're into paintings of motorcycles. And though the place features beautifully blistered, thin-crust pizzas, there's a reason for the "Bar" in its name. People come to enjoy, along with their pies (or not), craft beers such as Delirium Tremens and Russian River Brewing's Blind Pig. Yet as soon as the place opens at 3:14 p.m. (please don't make us explain why), knots of parents and kids... More »
San Francisco's thing for upscale pizza has gone so far beyond fad — trend-starter Pizzetta 211 dates back to 2004, people — that it's practically a social movement. There's no secret why pizza is popular with customers: It's populist. With the... More »
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