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Curated by a local tour guide.
What I recommend on tour, collected in one place.

Neighborhoods

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Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury, the center of the 1967 Summer of Love, is eight blocks of Victorians, record stores, and vintage…

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The Tenderloin

The Tenderloin is one of San Francisco's densest neighborhoods, home to Little Saigon, historic SRO hotels, and a…

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Financial District

The Financial District is San Francisco's downtown core of office towers, from the Transamerica Pyramid to the old…

1 restaurants 3 things to do
Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights is the hilltop of mansions and bay views above the Marina, with Fillmore Street shopping and…

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Where to Eat

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Burma Superstar

Tea leaf salad mixed tableside is the dish the restaurant is best known for.

$$ The Richmond Burmese, Asian

Humphry Slocombe

Great ice cream shop in the ferry building.

$$ The Embarcadero Ice Cream

Capital Restaurant

The salt and pepper chicken wings are some of the best in the city

$ Chinatown Chinese

Uji Time Dessert

First shop in the Bay Area to serve taiyaki ice cream in fish-shaped cones baked to order. The Fish Cone is the house specialty.

$ Japantown Ice Cream
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Things to Do

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SFMOMA

Seven floors of modern and contemporary art at 151 Third Street in SoMa, with photography as a major collecting program. Top floor has a living wall and a sculpture terrace with city views. Free for visitors 18 and under, $30 adults; Bay Area residents free first Thursday of each month with proof of address.

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Center for New Music

Nonprofit performance space for experimental and contemporary composition at 55 Taylor in the Tenderloin, opened in 2012. Programming runs electroacoustic, noise, sound art, improvisation, and contemporary classical, often Bay Area composers performing their own work. Sliding scale $5 to $20, five-minute walk from Powell BART.

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Clement Street Farmers Market

Sunday market 9am to 2pm year-round on Clement between 2nd and 4th, a CUESA-affiliated market focused on Northern California growers. The surrounding Inner Richmond is dense with Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, and Burmese restaurants. Green Apple Books is at 6th.

30 minutes - 1 hour Free entry
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