Tartine Bakery -- San Francisco, CA

Walking down Guerrero Street in San Francisco, California your nose will not guide you amiss. You are suddenly uplifted, and you're floating on air, just like in those old cartoons where the hungry fluffy creature is lured by a wonderful smell. That is where you are now, you look up to see that you are standing in front of a building numbered 600 and named Tartine Bakery. The goods here are baked from pristine ingredients. The eggs are from local farmers because they know that a community will benefit from closeness. This bakery uses organic flour because they understand that health starts with what you eat. They simply care for you at this restaurant. The best customer is a long-living and returning customer. 

Can you imagine smelling the aroma of that warm, tasty and organic coffee? Once you have organic coffee you will wonder what you were drinking all those other years. You will have a pre-Tartine Bakery stage and a post-Tartine Bakery stage in your life...they definitely strive for perfection. They have a Humboldt Fog Goat Cheese Sandwich which is hot pressed and ever so delicious. Local goat cheese that melts and caresses every taste bud in your mouth with a sprinkle of the delicious nuttiness that only a walnut infused bread can provide. That is heaven on Earth. If you are interested in the sweet, indulge in the wonderful Frangipine Tart, which is a delightful little pastry that will make you go 'mmhmm' almost involuntarily. It is filled with a light almond-cream filling baked in an ever so graceful and flaky pastry shell with the most delicious of seasonal fruit. 

The parking is on the street but the neighborhood is so quaint and interesting that most who come here, walk. You might call it a pilgrimage to goodness. Just so you know they do accept cards. One reviewer called it "an adventure in her mouth." What is not to love about Tartine Bakery, located at 600 Guerrero St. in the neighborhood of Mission of San Francisco, California.