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MacKenzie Chung Fegan

Critic · Journalist — San Francisco restaurants at every price, from tasting counters to a ten-dollar lunch special. A desk that eats the room before it writes it.

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MacKenzie Chung Fegan is a restaurant critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, which she joined in January 2024 after working as a senior editor at Bon Appétit. She won the James Beard Award for Emerging Voice in Journalism in 2025, and her profile of the chef Brandon Jew was selected for The Best American Food Writing. She is one of the two critics who build the paper's ranked Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area.

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