The Sunset
About The Sunset
The Sunset is the residential grid south of Golden Gate Park, running from Stanyan Street out to the Pacific. It is one of the largest residential neighborhoods in the city by area and population. The neighborhood splits roughly into the Inner Sunset (closer to the park, around 9th Avenue and Irving) and the Outer Sunset (closer to the ocean, along Noriega and Judah).
Things to Do
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Black Bird Bookstore & Cafe
Independent Outer Sunset bookstore from Kathryn Grantham, with small presses and underrepresented authors front and center. Handwritten staff picks, weekly storytime, monthly open mic. 4541 Irving; cafe opens at 7am, books at 9am.
Tunnel Records
Husband-and-wife vinyl shop (Ben Wintroub, Andrea de Francisco) specializing in rare-groove soul, jazz, funk, and reggae since 2017. Two locations: 3614A Taraval in the Parkside and inside the 4-Star Theatre at 2200 Clement.
Sutro Egyptian Collection
About 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts including two intact mummies, collected by Mayor Adolph Sutro in Thebes in the 1880s. Free at SF State's Global Museum, 1600 Holloway. Check the SFSU website for hours since exhibitions rotate.
Circus Center
A nonprofit circus school founded in 1984 by Wendy Parkman and Judy Finelli, originally a Pickle Family Circus project. Drop-in trapeze and aerial silks classes run $30 to $50, no experience needed. 755 Frederick in Cole Valley, book ahead.
16th Avenue Tiled Steps
163 steps covered in more than 2,000 handmade tiles and roughly 75,000 glass fragments, opened August 27, 2005. The sea-to-sky mosaic by Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher reads from below looking up. Base at 16th and Moraga in the Inner Sunset, top opens onto Grandview Park.
Stonestown Farmers Market
Sunday market 9am to 1pm year-round in the Stonestown Galleria parking lot, run by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association. Free parking sets it apart from the city's other markets. M-Ocean View Muni stops at the mall.
