Season 18

Senor Sisig started as a roaming San Francisco food truck building a creative Filipino-Mexican fusion menu around sisig — the sizzling chopped pork dish from the Pampanga region of the Philippines — applied to tacos, burritos, and the Mexican street food format in combinations that earned a Bay Area cult following and eventually grew the

The Front Porch on 29th Street in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated Southern comfort food restaurants since it opened, serving fried chicken, biscuits, and the slow-cooked Southern dishes that earn a San Francisco restaurant its destination reputation in a city where the competition for the dining dollar

KoJa Kitchen started as a roaming San Francisco food truck building a menu around the Korean-Japanese fusion rice burger — crispy rice cakes standing in for bread buns, filled with Korean and Japanese-influenced proteins and sauces — that earned a Bay Area cult following and eventually grew into a brick-and-mortar brand with multiple locations. It