Let other cities build grand monuments. San Francisco days are better spent sunning by the bay and digesting lavish seafood dinners - no matter whether you're a human or a sea lion that's bellyflopped on Pier 39.
Outlandish behavior comes with the territory here. What with all the earthquakes and eccentrics,this peninsula keeps only a tentative hold on the planet, not to mention the continental US. But as any San Franciscan will tell you, gravity is overrated, anyway. With 43 hills and a population of free thinkers, crafty inventors, and weirdoes passing as normal, this city stubbornly refuses to be brought down to earth. Instead reality is forced to rise to the occasion, with flocks of wild parrots taking to the treetops, ingenious meals by rising star chefs and poets who just keep on rifting until their words take flight. ...
INTRODUCING SAN
FRANCISCO
HIGHLIGHTS
THE AUTHORS
GETTING STARTED
When to Go
Costs & Money
Internet Resources
Sustainable San Francisco
BACKGROUND
History
Arts
Architecture
Environment & Planning
Government & Politics
Media
Fashion
NEIGHBORHOODS
Itinerary Builder
Embarcadero & The Piers
Downtown
Civic Center & The
Tenderloin
Chinatown
North Beach
Russian & Nob Hills
Japantown & Pacific
Heights
The Marina & The Presidio
SoMa
The Mission
Potrero Hill
The Castro
Noe Valley
The Haight
Hayes Valley
The Richmond, The Sunset
& Golden Gate Park
SHOPPING
Embarcadero & The Piers
Downtown
Civic Center & The
Tenderloin
Chinatown
North Beach
Russian & Nob Hills
Japantown & Pacific
Heights
The Marina & The Presidio
SoMa
The Mission
The Castro
Noe Valley
The Haight
Hayes Valley
The Richmond,
The Sunset &
Golden Gate Park
EATING
Embarcadero & The Piers
Downtown
Civic Center & The
Tenderloin
Chinatown
North Beach
Russian & Nob Hills
Japantown & Pacific
Heights
The Marina & The Presidio
SoMa
The Mission & Potrero Hill
The Castro & Noe Valley
The Haight
Hayes Valley
The Richmond, The Sunset
& Golden Gate Park
DRINKING
BARS
Downtown
Civic Center & The
Tenderloin
Chinatown
North Beach
Russian & Nob Hills
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Japantown & Pacific
Heights
The Marina & The Presidio
SoMa
The Mission
Potrero Hill
The Haight
Hayes Valley
The Richmond, The Sunset
& Golden Gate Park
CAFES
Downtown
Chinatown
North Beach
Soma
The Mission & Potrero Hill
The Castro
The Haight & Hayes Valley
The Richmond, The Sunset
& Golden Gate Park
NIGHTLIFE
Comedy
Clubbing
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THE ARTS
Film
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SPORTS &
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Offbeat Activities
Health & Beauty
GAY/LESBIAN/BI/
TRANS SF
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Sleeping
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SLEEPING
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Downtown
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Tenderloin
Chinatown
North Beach
Russian & Nob Hills
Japantown & Pacific
Heights
The Marina & The Presidio
SoMa
EXCURSIONS
Oakland & Berkeley
Marin County
Point Reyes National
Seashore
The Road South
WINE COUNTRY
Sonoma Valley
Russian River Valley
Napa Valley
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