The Five Best Breads in San Francisco

• We tried this sesame bread a couple days good, right out the oven..and it did not disappoint.  Toasty and moist all night long, it was the best bread we've every had.  Definitely worth the wait for this loaf of heaven.  

• naturally leavened means that is uses yeast from the air. That is, without any commericial yeast. It's part of what makes bread special in each city.

• Have you had the baguette at Thorough Bread????  That is by a mile my #1 SF bread.

• The article does focus on San Francisco, not Marin or Berkeley.

• What does "naturally leavened" mean in the context of the Tartine sesame bread? Isn't bread usually naturally leavened with yeast or baking soda?  Knead's brioche is absolutely luscious!

• Ironically it is also National Celiac Awareness day.  I would add Morell's wood fire brick oven bread from Marin. Available at Berkeley Farmers Market Thursday and Saturday's. 

• Josey Baker would have made the list in some form or another, but he's on hiatus for three months: http://joseybakerbread.blogspot.com/2011/09/gone-til-november-ill-be-gone-til.html

• These Top 5 lists are always awful. Not only is it easy to think of better options left out, its easy to choose which Top 5 choice should be eliminated instead.  No Arizmendi this time? Josie Baker? Bakers of Paris? Outerlands deserves more than runner up. Acme is ok, but nowhere close to the Top 5 in SF. 

• No Liguria Bakery focaccia?  Please explain how either focaccia is not bread or how you made this terrible oversight. 

• No love for Thoroughbread?

• What about Josie Baker? :)

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