SF
Guide

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

Neighborhoods

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Marina District

The Marina spreads along the northern waterfront.
Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury grew as a streetcar suburb in the 1880s and 1890s. Its Victorian flats and cheap postwar rents…
The Mission District

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

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

Where to Eat

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b. patisserie

James Beard Outstanding Baker award winner

Pacific Heights Bakery

Tony’s Pizza Napoletana

From a 13-time World Pizza Champion. The wood-fired Margherita that won Naples is capped at 73 a day, so order it early.

North Beach Pizza

Jane the Bakery

Great small bakery that grows their own grain.

Japantown Bakery

Burma Superstar

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

The Richmond Burmese, Asian

Things to Do

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Conservatory of Flowers

A Victorian wood and glass conservatory that opened in April 1879, the oldest still operating in North America. James Lick ordered the prefabricated parts from Lord & Burnham of New York in 1876. Five galleries of tropical and aquatic plants under 16,800 panes of glass. In Golden Gate Park. $12 adults, free the first Tuesday of each month.

The RichmondParks & Outdoors

Exploratorium

A hands on science museum founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer, moved to Pier 15 on the Embarcadero in April 2013. Around 600 exhibits on the floor, curated from more than 1,000 the museum has built itself. After Dark Thursdays are 18+ with cocktails. The Tactile Dome requires a separate reservation.

The EmbarcaderoMuseums

Shakespeare Garden

A walled garden in Golden Gate Park planted only with species mentioned in Shakespeare's works; plaques pair each bed with the relevant passages. The bronze bust at the back is cast from a 17th century original in Stratford-upon-Avon, a gift from that town's mayor. Free, open sunrise to sunset, near the California Academy of Sciences.

The RichmondParks & Outdoors