Summary: The Chronicle’s list of the 100 best restaurants came out the other day, dessert in a region obsessed with food and the good life. Business is booming; 18 new restaurants made the top 100 this year. But what about the old restaurants? After all, eating and drinking is the third-oldest profession in these parts. The miners came in ’49. And then they opened restaurants. Not long after that, San Francisco went from a boomtown to a big city.
