Oakland ranks as foodie heaven: nation's best city for coffee, food trucks, breakfast and more

Firebrand Artisan Breads in Oakland has a coffee bar and Pal's Takeaway tucked away in their large retail space. Scroll ahead to see all the survey's rankings. Firebrand Artisan Breads in Oakland has a coffee bar and Pal's Takeaway tucked away in their large retail space. Scroll ahead to see all the survey's rankings. Photo: Jen Fedrizzi, Special To The Chronicle Photo: Jen Fedrizzi, Special To The Chronicle Image 1 of / 24 Caption Close Oakland ranks as foodie heaven: nation's best city for coffee, food trucks, breakfast and more 1 / 24 Back to Gallery

Oakland is a major culinary capital, according to a recent survey of businesses by real estate site Estately.

The website took a look at the nation's 50 largest cities across the United States, and scored each city based on three factors out of 300 points, each weighed equally: "restaurants per capita, restaurants per square mile, and the percentage of all area restaurants that each type makes up."

The results proved very flattering for Oakland and San Francisco too.

The East Bay city ended up taking top rankings in four different categories. First, it scored a 213/300 for breakfast, and a 235.5/300 for coffee (San Francisco took second place in both of these categories also). Oakland took the gold again for food trucks with 192.5/300 (with SF trailing in fourth), and Chinese food with a 233.7/300 (with San Francisco in second).

What does that all mean? Basically, that Oakland and San Francisco have some of the best selections and most options per capita for these types of restaurants.

The two cities also took high marks for categories of vegetarian, gluten free, halal, soul food, Mexican, Japanese and Thai. Basically, the only categories the Bay Area didn't largely dominate were Tex-Mex, steak, buffets, pizza, burgers, donuts, and fast food, which, well, says enough about our more health-minded eating habits than anything else. We'll take it.

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