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Everyone comes for the crooked block of Lombard Street, but stay on Russian Hill and you discover hidden…

Dogpatch rose from the bones of shipyards and factories, keeping the warehouse architecture while filling those massive spaces…

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Chinatown

Chinatown is the oldest in North America and one of the largest outside Asia, built to its current…

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The Embarcadero

The 1989 earthquake collapsed the Embarcadero Freeway and gave San Francisco back its waterfront.

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Where to Eat

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Sotto Mare

Order the cioppino and crab.

$ North Beach Italian Seafood

Delfina

Order the spaghetti with plum tomato. The dish that built the reputation. Reserve via Resy two to three weeks out. Pizzeria Delfina next door for shorter waits.

Italian

Hon’s Wun-Tun House

The wonton noodle soup is one of the best cheap meals in Chinatown. Go to the Washington Street location for the original experience.

$ Chinese

Cotogna

The pasta changes daily and it's always the right order. Lunch is easier to get into than dinner. Book through SevenRooms.

$$$ Italian

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Things to Do

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Green Apple Books

Go with time to browse. The used section upstairs is where the real discoveries happen. Clement Street around the store has some of the best food in the Richmond.

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Wave Organ

Check tide charts before you go. The sounds are best at high tide. At low tide it's quiet. The walk out to the jetty from the Marina Green parking lot takes about 15 minutes.

free

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Battery Spencer

Cross the Golden Gate Bridge and take the first exit. The parking lot fills up fast on weekends so go early or late. This is the single best photo spot for the bridge with the city behind it.

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Written by someone who actually does this every day

I've been a San Francisco tour guide for years. These aren't hot takes from a travel writer who flew in for a weekend—they're the answers I give people every single day.

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