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Brunch is a respite, recovery, church, and nourishment, all at the same time. San Francisco has long been lined with brunch and breakfast treasures by the hundreds, whether dim sum feasts or classic American breakfasts. After this beloved weekend activity was stripped from San Franciscans for many months, it is now back in the form of patios, parklets, and other lovely outdoor seating arrangements.
We’ve taken a look at what’s available in the city, and these 10 restaurants top our list as the best reopened restaurants with outdoor dining or minimal indoor dining. …

My 76-year-old grandmother grew up in Missouri before moving to Virginia, where she’s lived ever since. She doesn’t love sushi (“It’s slimy and uncooked”), and she bakes with a touch more butter and sugar than recipes call for. She is not your average fruit-juice-cleansing, granola-eating, organic-purist San Franciscan. She’s a Coca-Cola purist.
And yet she was totally open to the idea of a vegan brunch.
Not only that, but she totally loved this vegan brunch.
I brought her and my mother to Millennium — one of the top-ranking vegan restaurants in the nation. I’m quite familiar with their dinners, but…
Celebrating the free-wheeling spirit of the Bay Area — one sentence at a time.