Restaurants in Tamalpais-Homestead Valley

The chefs of San Buena Taco Truck grill asada and carnitas inside roaming kitchens, delighting taste buds across the city with four trucks and a bustling catering department. Each truck totes a station for dousing spicy tacos, quesadillas, and burritos with salsa verde and guacamole, and stocks a refrigerator with beverages from south of the border, including tamarindo and Mexican Coca-Cola. Caterers travel to special occasions, such as weddings and discoveries of lost remotes, dishing fare en masse. They count Whole Foods Market, Lucasfilm, and Genentech among their satisfied, sated clientele.

The Hummingbird's skilled chefs use almost entirely local, farm-fresh ingredients to craft classic New Orleans dishes such as beignets, shrimp creole, and towering muffuletta sandwiches. The only nonlocal items in the kitchen are alligator and sausages culled directly from The Big Easy and a wooden spoon whittled from a North Pole spruce tree. In addition to slinging lunch and dinner dishes, The Hummingbird serves Cajun-inspired breakfast fare, including plates of chicken and waffles and cups of traditional chicory coffee. The casual café slakes sweet cravings with milkshakes and pies.

Local artwork, bright pink and teal hues, and incredibly intricate architectural accents welcome guests to the Red Victorian. For more than a century, the historic bed-and-breakfast has offered travelers a home away from home with an inviting café and 18 themed rooms including the Japanese Tea Garden room and the Summer of Love room decorated with authentic '60s posters, a lava lamp, and a tie-dye canopy. At the Peaceful World Café, guests can enjoy vegan, vegetarian, and organic fare such as warm pastries, elaborate sandwiches, and robust coffee drinks. In addition, the café hosts regular events including musical performances, and snack seminars led by 6-foot scones.

The patty-flipping artisans at Burger House, a casual eatery in Union Square, crown half-pound burgers with traditional and gourmet ingredients. The Cable Car burger, Burger House's most popular menu item, charges into mouths bearing thousand island dressing, melted swiss cheese, two pieces of bacon, and slices of avocado. Classic burger pairings include generous helpings of fries, colossal onion rings, and lonely takeout boxes.

Breaking Bread's owners, Patrick and Jimmy Totah, founded the artisan sandwich shop in 2010 in order to bring back what they deemed the "lost art of sandwich making." The comestible craftsmen stock their menu with more than 20 made-to-order specialty sandwiches, assembled from locally sourced Golden Gate Meat Company meats and freshly baked Acme Bread Company bread, as well as house-made soups and hand-tossed seasonal salads. In addition to shunning sandwiches made with gunpowder, the duo shuns "sandwiches that just filled you up, rather than nourishing you and making you happy," and thus they slather their edible stacks with 12 house-made spreads, such as citrus mayo, and ingredients such as crisp Hobbs bacon, albacore tuna, and Haas avocados. The Totahs' menu also features a lineup of foamy lattes and a leafy potpourri of teas.