Editor's note: This article was updated for the 2019 holiday season
In San Francisco? Check out BARTable San Francisco Filipino Restaurants.
In the East Bay? Check out BARTable East Bay Filipino Restaurants.Salty and sour are the flavors that Filipino foods do best — despite influences of its neighbors and conquistadors, the Philippines has held onto a distinct flavor palette shaped by vinegar, suka, and salt.If you’ve never before experienced the flavors of the Philippines, San Francisco has plenty of BARTable restaurants and pop-ups serving authentic Filipino food.
Sky Cycles at Warm Springs. Photo courtesy of bart.gov.
Art abounds in BART and there is no shortage of art to experience on your daily commute. The artwork at BART stations also bring each trip to life. The entire system is home to nearly 50 artworks of a vast variety of mediums and forms - mosaics, tile work, paintings and sculptures enrich several stations.
The suffix -silog adds a fried egg and fried rice to any Filipino dish, and that’s just what Tselogs does best. From sizzling sisiglog to the more familiar spamsilog, Tselogs’s most delicious specialties are anything that can be served with a fried egg — meaning almost every Filipino dish.
Translated as Tess’s Kitchen, Kusina Ni Tess serves the Tenderloin community Filipino classics like lumpia, fried spring rolls, and sinigang, a savory tamarind-based soup. It’s hard to find a lunch under $10 in the heart of the city, but Kusina Ni Tess cooks up authentic Filipino dishes for reasonable prices.
Difficulty: IntermediateTerrain: Short route (mostly flat); Long route (hilly- includes a steep, winding ascent and descent)
Giants manager, Bruce Bochy tips his cap into retirement this weekend. Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Examiner.
Say hello to BART and goodbye to retiring Giants manager Bruce Bochy this weekend as the G-men take on the Dodgers in what's sure to be an emotional series... #ThankYouBoch. Not a baseball fan? We show you where the biggest names in hip-hop will be, where to see world-class dragon boat racing, and plenty of other events that should be on your radar.
Photo courtesy Sindhu AnanthavelIt’s no secret that the Bay Area is full of history cultural, political, and everything in between. There are significant landmarks and tributes tucked into every city, some more noticeable than others and many of them are surprisingly easy to access by public transit. We scoped out historical locations that are 20 minutes or less of a walking distance from a BART station. A few of the highlights are listed below:THE MISSION: Mission Dolores
This schedule has been updated as of August 11, 2022.
A large construction project is now underway in southern Alameda County. Crews are replacing critical trackway components between the South Hayward and Union City BART stations as well as advancing preliminary work to create a new storage facility at the Hayward Maintenance Complex for hundreds of Fleet of the Future cars.
Crews made significant progress on upgrading the BART trackway between South Hayward and Union City in 2021. Accomplishments of the BART work team include: