Sophie Markoulakis

Sophia Markoulakis is a San Francisco-based writer with a culinary degree and a passion for scoping out the best Greek and Mediterranean restaurants in the city. She writes for the Bay Area’s most efficient transit system, BART, and guides riders on where to find the best places to eat and drink. A longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, she now covers lifestyle topics for regional print and digital publications like California Homes Magazine, Punch Magazine, and The Six Fifty blog. More of her work can be found at SophiaMWrites.

Latest Articles

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8 Can’t-Miss San Francisco Restaurants

It’s impossible to visit San Francisco and not contemplate the quintessential food you’ll eat. San Francisco restaurants have the reputation for being trend-setting, diverse, and incorporating lots of local seasonal produce, regardless of the cuisine. And though food trends come and go like fashion, the most iconic San Francisco restaurants continuously secure their place on […]

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The 9 Best Vegan Restaurants in San Francisco

San Francisco is known for many iconic foods—Mission District burritos, Fisherman’s Wharf sourdough bread, and Ghirardelli Square chocolate—and yes, even Haight Ashbury’s counterculture cuisine (the original hippie food). Recently, vegan food has expanded from raw and whole food that’s good for you to delicious and diverse food that just happens to be vegan. And though […]