SF
Guide

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

Neighborhoods

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Chinatown

San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest in North America and one of the largest outside Asia.
SoMa

SoMa stands for South of Market.
Russian Hill

Russian Hill is a residential neighborhood on the hill north of Nob Hill, between Polk Street and the…
The Richmond

The Richmond is the residential grid west of Arguello and north of Golden Gate Park, running out to…

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

Jane the Bakery

Great small bakery that grows their own grain.

Japantown Bakery

The Pawn Shop

SoMa speakeasy tapas restaurant hidden behind a pawn shop facade

SoMa Spanish

Liguria Bakery

Liguria Bakery makes one thing: focaccia bread since 1911.

North Beach Italian Bakery, Bakery

Things to Do

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Classic

Mission Dolores Cemetery

The cemetery beside the 1776 Mission Dolores basilica at 3321 16th Street, the oldest in San Francisco. Hitchcock filmed Madeleine visiting Carlotta Valdes's grave here in Vertigo (1958); the prop headstone is gone but the location is unchanged. $7 adults, daily 9am to 4:30pm.
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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. 1199 9th Avenue; free for SF residents with ID and free for everyone 7:30 to 9am daily and on the second Tuesday of the month.
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Clarion Alley

A 560-foot Mission alley managed by the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP), a volunteer collective founded in October 1992 by six Mission residents (Aaron Noble, Michael O'Connor, Sebastiana Pastor, Rigo 92, Mary Gail Snyder, Aracely Soriano). More than 700 murals have cycled through since then. Free, 24 hours; runs between Mission and Valencia, just south of 17th.