SF
Guide

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

Neighborhoods

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Nob Hill

Nob Hill is a residential and hotel district at the summit of the hill.
Haight-Ashbury

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

The Tenderloin is one of the densest neighborhoods in San Francisco.
The Embarcadero

The Embarcadero is the waterfront promenade along the eastern edge of San Francisco, running from Fisherman's Wharf to…

Where to Eat

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Tartine Bakery

Amazing bakery in the Mission Neighborhood

The Mission District Bakery

Liguria Bakery

Liguria Bakery makes one thing: focaccia bread since 1911.

North Beach Italian Bakery, Bakery

Sotto Mare

Great Italian seafood in North Beach. Known for their Cioppino.

North Beach Italian Seafood

R&G Lounge

Anthony Bourdain featured this Chinatown Cantonese restaurant on No Reservations.

Chinatown Chinese, Cantonese, Seafood

Things to Do

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Mission Dolores Cemetery

The cemetery beside the 1776 Mission Dolores basilica, 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.

The Mission DistrictHistoric Sites

Dolores Park

Stake out a patch of the sunny upper lawn, then grab Bi-Rite ice cream on 18th once the line dies down.

The Mission DistrictParks & Outdoors

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.

The RichmondParks & Outdoors