San Francisco neighbourhood food tour: Best places to eat and drink in North Beach

By Brian Johnston
Updated October 26 2016 - 1:08pm, first published October 23 2016 - 12:15am
Group on an Avital Food Tour at the corner of Columbus and Broadway.
Group on an Avital Food Tour at the corner of Columbus and Broadway.
Tommaso's in San Francisco. Photo: Billy Cole
Tommaso's in San Francisco. Photo: Billy Cole
Spinach and parmesan pizza from Tommaso's.
Spinach and parmesan pizza from Tommaso's.
San Francisco's North Beach district.
San Francisco's North Beach district.
 Cavalli Italian pastry cafe. Photo: Avital Food Tours
Cavalli Italian pastry cafe. Photo: Avital Food Tours
A cannoli from Cavalli. Photo: Avital Food Tours
A cannoli from Cavalli. Photo: Avital Food Tours

I've never before started a culinary tour in a tunnel beneath a brothel, and I'm rather pleased at this first. The tunnel is really just a concrete passageway hidden behind a door, but I imagine girls in feathers and frilly drawers fleeing the police, and bootleggers hauling whisky during Prohibition. This building once housed the Red Mill, later tarted up as the Moulin Rouge. Later still it was the Hippodrome, where flappers danced and cocktails flowed.

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