San Francisco and what to do in it

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Though she used to live in the marina:)

How is the Swan Oyster Depot?

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 19 August 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

its fucking cold here. though went shopping and got this great second hand shearling coat for $150! and a cashmere sweater for $18! ahhh, san francisco. why bars close at 2 :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 20 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

The Swan Oyster Depot, if you haven't already been, Mary, is excellent.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I'm going to have one day in San Francisco proper, and it's going to be next Sunday - what should I do? I don't have much of a plan - we were thinking of trying Pizzeria Delfina, which I gather is in Mission - is there much to do around there? Maybe grabbing some cheap good Cal-Mex food somewhere would be good, too (people keep telling me about fish tacos). What's the most fun/interesting things to do on a Sunday afternoon?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 22 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

There is plenty around there. Walk along Valencia St. There are tons of boutiques, plus Aquarius Records, Borderland Books, Good Vibrations. And if you feel like thrifting there are tons of places on Mission St itself.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

if you're gonna be in the mission, u should probably see if anywhere is renting track bikes

― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

If you like seafood, go to the Swan Oyster Depot (http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/885734). There's also pretty good views and okay shopping around there.

If you like owls, go to the Owl Tree.
http://static.flickr.com/93/233339917_5acf9048ae.jpg?v=0
But check the schedule, it only open like Thur - Sat I think.

The ferry terminal is also a good toursity place, especially if the weather is nice, and there's lots of overpriced boutique food there too.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 22 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

is it really dumb to stay near the wharf? i know about the tourists&tacky&"dirty"¬-for-locals and gather you gotta wait forever for the cable cars, so it might not be very convenient for getting to the Mission or Berkeley, but if it's yr first time, and you wanna relax near the water, and don't care much about downtown, and you want to walk to the Presidio and other parts North?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's not dumb if you get a good deal on a hotel.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't hang out by the wharf though. That would get old real fast.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

there is nothing remotely interesting near the warf except in n out

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

...and Restaurant Gary Danko (the propietor of which I saw leaving In-N-Out once on his way to work).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

...also the Musee Mechanique can be fun, and the ferry to Angel Island leaves from Pier 41.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

the last time i was on the West Coast I wasn't eating red meat, but I'm definitely having one of those when I go back.

yeah, i wouldn't plan to hang out at the wharf or anything, but i think i might like to wake up there. or would rather do so there than near union square. also, i hear there's a restaurant named after Rick Danko or something there. and is Greens walkable from there?

i guess more than half of the places i might want to go are more easily-accessed from union square, though. those being primarily (and provisionally)... the presidio, (maybe) pacific heights, out on the water in some fashion, north beach, chinatown, (maybe) the ferry building, berkeley, the haight, golden gate park, the mission - would it be too much to try to do most of this in 3 full days? and are there nice residential parts i don't know about that would be worth trying to fit in?

also, wine country. i'd like to pass through if only to look at some dirt and neat rows and lavender and such, but i don't need to go there to drink the wine, and i'm not gonna taste and drive. would i really want to spend an extra night in, uh, Yountville or something?

(xpost - aha!)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

hey, i didn't know about angel island - i thought you could do alcatraz or a commuter ferry - but that looks like the way to go.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 23 October 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

what's that owl place

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 October 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

So is Mission actually unsafe, then, as I keep reading? Or just slightly dodgy?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mission is totally safe! It was pretty gentrified in the 90s.

My sister just told me that the owner of the owl bar just passed away:(

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

the Mission's totally safe (unless you feel threatened by the odd drunken Mexican day laborer)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

by which I mean I've lived in the neighborhood for 10 years and never been threatened/assaulted. Altho its a big city so stupid things like the occasional shooting, vehicular homicide etc. do happen but largely regardless of what neighborhood you're in.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Unless you happen to be running people down in your car and shooting passersby yourself.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

the ferry building was on fire as of two hours ago. there was a lot of smoke but I didn't see any flames, and the fire dept. sure took their time getting there. it was in the back, maybe where slanted door is. no idea if it's open now.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

i've never felt threatened in the mission and I've spent plenty of time there in various states of consciousness. of course I'm a bad read on everything, my band practices in bayview and i never feel unsafe there and people keep getting shot randomly on the street.

the worst assault that has happened to someone I know of was right in the financial district, someone tried to steal her ipod and slashed her throat.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Alright, me and a good friend/occasional lurker will be road-tripping to SF this August for the Rock the Bells festival. What do we need to know?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

its being held in a parking lot.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I was more thinking in terms of the city, rather than the questionable choice of venues.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

It will be that much harder to find parking because of the questionable choice of venues (and it's pretty difficult anyway.) There's actually another recently revived thread on the subject that turned entirely into "OOOOH YOU SHOULD EAT THERE" thing so you are probably covered there. What else do you want to know?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Any recommedations for places to eat/things to do that are convenient to the Paramount in Oakland? And, is this Owl Bar still going? And, anywhere particularly great near the Greek in Berkeley?

― Virginia Plain, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

there isn't anything near the greek, it's in the back of the university campus on top of a hill. you'd have to go to euclid st on northside (former home of Rather Ripped Records, apparently; i didn't know this), where there is....I dunno. I haven't walked up there in a while. some cafes and a pizza place. it used to have a great shitty movie theater but it's gone.

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Paramount is in downtown Oakland, which sucks balls.

Owl Bar is still open as far as I know.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I will be in town next week. I have a boring question. What is the best option for paying for getting around town on public transport?

Does the CityPass make sense? Or should I just buy BART tickets as I go?

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

you're not going to be using BART most of the time, but the Muni. I think the Pass wd make sense if you're going to visit all those institutions. Since I'll be there 5 days I'll probably get the no-frills 7-day pass.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

They sell weekly Muni passes for 15 bucks that are geared more for local people than tourists. They cost 15 dollars and you have to pay an extra dollar to ride the cable car.

Here is the list and prices -

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mfares/fareinfo.htm

― svend, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, that is useful. Sounds like the regular weekly pass might be the way to go.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I got a citypass rather than the weekly muni pass because I imagined I'd be doing a fair bit of cablecarriding and visiting at least some museums and such, plus I thought it would be easier to buy on arrival than a muni pass, given where I was staying. Ultimately, I probably prepaid for enough stuff I didn't use that the muni pass might have been a better choice, but it did afford a bit of extra freedom.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

also, the citypass (and I imagine the muni pass?) doesn't cover BART

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Muni fastpasses are good for all public transportation within city limits, including BART

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if the weekly fast passes are good on BART, I seem to remember that they aren't. Another negative about the weekly passes are that they run from Sunday to the next Saturday, I think the passports are good for a week after they are first used.

― svend, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

The 3- or 7-day "Passports" are just Muni, am I right? as I will be there Thu-Tues, that's what I'm getting.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you are right. Muni only.

― svend, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Only the monthly Fast Pass is good on non-Muni transit within SF.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

the city pass is a good deal.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

The other problem with the weekly pass is that it only really works Monday through Sunday.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Muni Passport is a better deal than the City Pass IMO.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

sorry didn't know fastpasses and weekly passes were different! lame.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Alex you are high, the City Pass includes a ton of free admission. It's like a 50% savings on face value of all those attractions (almost all of which are pretty great for fisitors).

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

fisters = visitors (who enjoy fisting)

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

TMI

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Those things are generally scams. I'll take my $24 bus pass and go see the few things on the pass that I want to see rather than pay $54 and get stuck with a bunch of nonsense I don't want to do and an overpriced bus-pass.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.citypass.com/citypass/images/look-inside/sanfrancisco/3/34.jpg

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

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