Bay Area here! Zachary's is good. Paxti's is a chain, and it definitely depends on the location you go to SF Hayes valley one is pretty good.
Not South bay but Best option by far IMO is Capo's in North Beach. It's Tony Gemignani's(7x world pizza champion also owns Tony's and Slice House which are both very good) Chicago pizza Restaurant. Highly recommend.
Little Star is also good more of a Pizzaria Uno's style cornmeal crust.
My recollection of Garcias was that by '85, the pizza was lots of cheap cheese over a sweet/salty sauce. Whether you liked it or not depended on your view of heavy sugar and salt in the sauce. (Ugh IMO.)
For those in the SF bay area, the closest I have found are:
- Zachary's in Oakland/Berkeley is really good; they give Delz a run for best pizza.
- Blue Line w/~9 locations from Daly City to Los Gatos; a bit sweet, pricey for what you get
- Paxti's in Palo Alto; extremely sweet. I don't enjoy it; others really like it.
If you know of others in the south bay, please direct message me. (How I wish Zachary's would open a south bay branch.)
Now back to our regularly scheduled basketball discussion.