SF
Guide

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

Neighborhoods

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Financial District

The Financial District is built on the filled-in Yerba Buena Cove, with Gold Rush ships still buried beneath…
The Mission District

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

North Beach is named for a beach that was filled in during the 19th century. It became San…
SoMa

SoMa stands for South of Market.

Where to Eat

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Arsicault Bakery

Bon Appétit named it the Best New Bakery in America. Best Croissant in USA.

The Richmond Bakery

Jane the Bakery

Great small bakery that grows their own grain.

Japantown Bakery

R&G Lounge

Anthony Bourdain featured this Chinatown Cantonese restaurant on No Reservations.

Chinatown Chinese, Cantonese, Seafood

La Taqueria

Voted Best Burrito in USA. James Beard America's Classics Award winner.

The Mission District Mexican

Things to Do

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Coit Tower

A 210-foot Art Deco column on Telegraph Hill completed in 1933, funded by Lillie Hitchcock Coit's $100,000 bequest. The ground-floor murals were painted in 1934 by 25 artists under the Public Works of Art Project, with imagery so left-leaning the tower briefly closed during the controversy. Lobby and murals free, elevator separate. Take the Filbert Steps up through the wild parrots.

North BeachIconic Landmarks

San Francisco Botanical Garden

A 55-acre garden inside Golden Gate Park holding around 9,000 plant species, with collections from climates similar to San Francisco's: Mediterranean, cloud forest, Australasian, and high-elevation tropical. Funded by a 1927 Helene Strybing bequest, planted by WPA crews starting in 1937, opened May 1940. Free for SF residents with ID and free for everyone 7:30 to 9am daily and on the second Tuesday of the month.

The RichmondParks & Outdoors

Shakespeare Garden

A small walled garden in Golden Gate Park planted only with species mentioned in Shakespeare's works, each bed labeled with the relevant passage. The bronze bust at the back was cast from a 17th-century original in Stratford-upon-Avon and donated by the mayor of Shakespeare's hometown. Free, dawn to dusk, near the California Academy of Sciences.

The RichmondParks & Outdoors