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The best way to enjoy the Bay Area s food pop-ups is to embrace chaos
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Chefs Ryan Stagg (left) next to his fiancee Danielle Banchero (right) as they load cinnamon rolls for a customer seen at his pop-up bakery out of their home on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle
When you go to as many pop-ups as I do, you quickly come to realize that enjoying them means throwing yourself through endless hoops, all in the name of finally getting to buy a thing. You swim into the riptide of minute-long ordering windows and contact chefs via Google forms and direct messages. Then you hope you’re waiting in the right line in some random place, dropping everything in order to pick something up when someone else tells you to. You embrace chaos.