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Neighborhoods

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Hayes Valley

Hayes Valley is a walkable stretch of boutiques, wine bars, and well-known restaurants around Patricia's Green, where a…

0 restaurants 1 things to do
Pacific Heights

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

1 restaurants 2 things to do
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
The Mission District

The Mission is San Francisco's Latino cultural heart and sunniest neighborhood, known for taquerias, mural-lined alleys, and Mission…

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Where to Eat

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Tadich Grill

Operating since 1849, widely cited as California's oldest restaurant.

$$ Financial District Seafood

Pinecrest Diner

Breakfast or Late night diner in Union Square area

$ The Tenderloin American

Surisan

Great Korean and great breakfast option, If you're staying in Fisherman's Wharf

$$ Fisherman's Wharf Korean

Burma Superstar

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

$$ The Richmond Burmese, Asian
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Things to Do

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Classic

Oracle Park

Home of the San Francisco Giants since 2000, 41,000 seats on the China Basin waterfront with right field opening onto McCovey Cove. Kayakers wait in the cove for home runs over the wall, and the right-field arcade lets non-ticketed people watch through the fence for free. Tickets $15 and up, take the N or T Muni.

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Japanese Tea Garden

Oldest public Japanese garden in the United States, built for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. The Hagiwara family tended it from 1895 until they were forcibly removed during internment in 1942; Makoto Hagiwara is credited with introducing the American-style fortune cookie at the garden's tea house. Three acres in Golden Gate Park; free for SF residents with ID, and free for everyone Monday, Wednesday, and Friday before 10am.

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Book Club of California

Nonprofit founded in 1912 for fine printing, book arts, and California literary history, with a library of rare editions, fine press books, and West Coast works most public libraries don't hold. Free public lectures and rotating exhibitions on typography, bookbinding, and letterpress. 312 Sutter Street, Suite 500.

free
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