"The Divisadero-facing dining room at Nopa is one of our favorite places to go nonverbal and people-watch for a couple hours, especially from the upper level next to the sprawling jazz mural. Their massive, charred-to-perfection pork chop, a long list of wine, sides of thick-cut fries, and gurgling wood-baked beans are enough to get lost in. Existential dread can wait." - julia chen 1