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).
Filmed in The Sunset
All San Francisco films →19 productions filmed around The Sunset, oldest first.
1972Play it Again, Sam
1993So I Married an Axe Murderer
1998Around the Fire
2013Blue Jasmine
2015The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2015Quitters2015Summertime2015Smile Again, Jenny Lee2015Sense8
2015I Am Michael2015Cardinal X
2016Chance- Season 1 ep110
2016Chance- Season 1 ep1092017Etruscan Smile
2019The OA Part II
2019The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019Always Be My Maybe
2020DEVS2020Shit and ChampagneThings to Do
All activities →Hidden Garden Steps
Walk up from Kirkham so the mosaic reads the right way round, and come at midday because the tiles need direct sun to do anything.
Ocean Beach
Park at the Beach Chalet lot off Fulton and walk in, because the old Great Highway between Lincoln and Sloat is a car free park now.
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.
Tunnel Records
Husband-and-wife vinyl shop (Ben Wintroub, Andrea de Francisco) specializing in rare-groove soul, jazz, funk, and reggae since 2017.
Sutro Egyptian Collection
About 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts, including two intact mummies, collected by businessman Adolph Sutro in Thebes in the 1880s. Free at the Global Museum at SF State. Exhibits rotate, so check hours on the SFSU website.
Circus Center
A nonprofit circus school founded in 1984, originally a Pickle Family Circus project. Drop in trapeze and aerial silks classes, no experience required.
