R01 · HALAL
FrontierHalal in San Francisco
The committed San Francisco pack lists 71 halal listings — 1.9% of its 3,732 Google Places listings (pack built 2026-09-10; collection freshness unknown).
Highest-rated halal listings in this pack
- BoochmaniaSoMa · 5.0 / 5 · 335 ratingsmap →
- KAYMA Algerian EateryFisherman's Wharf · 4.9 / 5 · 638 ratingsmap →
- KolajUnion Street · 4.9 / 5 · 231 ratingsmap →
- SUR Cafe MediterraneanFinancial District · 4.9 / 5 · 226 ratingsmap →
- Sofiya RestaurantLower Nob Hill · 4.8 / 5 · 712 ratingsmap →
- Bistro MediterraneoCentral Richmond · 4.8 / 5 · 517 ratingsmap →
- Shawarma AzmiMid-Market · 4.8 / 5 · 296 ratingsmap →
- The M Stop DeliOceanview · 4.8 / 5 · 177 ratingsmap →
- Oklava CafeMid-Market · 4.8 / 5 · 59 ratingsmap →
- Halal ShopParkmerced · 4.8 / 5 · 31 ratingsmap →
The 10 highest-rated halal listings in the committed San Francisco pack, ordered by each listing's own Google Places rating — listings with fewer than 20 ratings are not ranked, and equal ratings break toward the larger sample. This is pack-wide standing, not the map's drive-time order; open a place for its report, or jump straight to it on the live frontier.
What counts
A listing joins FrontierHalal when its Google type is “Halal Restaurant” or its name contains “halal”. Matches come only from each listing's own name and Google Places type tags — cuisine alone is never inferred.
Only places whose Google listing says “Halal Restaurant” or whose name contains “halal”. Cuisine alone is never treated as certification — many halal kitchens are missing here, and listed status is unverified.
FrontierHalal coverage in each mapped pack
- New York City1,148 halal listings
- Los Angeles metro437 halal listings
- Bay Area (9 counties)420 halal listings
- San Francisco (this report)71 halal listings
Counts are listings inside each committed pack — a coverage sample, not a popularity or quality ranking. The mapped regions overlap (the Bay Area pack includes San Francisco) and cover only crawled Google Places listings, so they are not comparable measures of a region's food scene.
Other frontiers in San Francisco
- FrontierBoba53 boba shops
- FrontierPizza240 pizza places
- FrontierTacos152 taco places
- FrontierCoffee479 coffee places
- FrontierRamen51 ramen shops
- FrontierBurgers146 burger places
- FrontierSushi180 sushi places
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Methodology & caveats
Counts are Google Places (New) listings from each region's committed crawl data; a place joins a frontier when its listing name or Google type matches that category. The pack build date shown is when the routing pack was compiled — the original crawl collection dates are not recorded, so listing freshness is unknown. Drive times on the map are free-flow estimates — road-class speeds, no traffic, no parking, no queue at the counter — computed only out to a two-hour limit; beyond that a place is simply uncharted. Quality scores are ratings scaled to 100 — a rating-derived proxy, not a taste measurement. Unrated places cannot be charted.
Only places whose Google listing says “Halal Restaurant” or whose name contains “halal”. Cuisine alone is never treated as certification — many halal kitchens are missing here, and listed status is unverified.
The full pipeline — corpus, road graph, speed model, routing and ranking — is documented on the methodology page.
FrontierFood is an independent parody research project about the geospatial accessibility of lunch. Not affiliated with Cognition or Google.