San Francisco and what to do in it

oh I'm just kiddin I wouldn't subject our li'l one to the high decibels.

altho she does respond well to drone metal and dub reggae.

i made a reservation at this hotel -- anyone know it?

http://www.jdvhotels.com/carlton/

it has a "sir edmund hillary" suite! i didn't book that. :-(

Rooms looks cute, but I've never stayed there so I can't comment. Only hotels I've seen on the inside in SF are the Hayes Valley Inn (which is nice and cheap, but has shared facilities) and that Motor Lodge on Market and Sanchez (which is like a motor lodge anywhere, but obv a lot more gay friendly.)

I've been to Saha, the restaurant there, gb, and it was pretty good the last time I went.

Hi Michael White, sorry for yelling at you at 6am yesterday whizzing by.

I too have been to Saha, it's blandish, veggie friendly pan-Arabic. I liked about half the dishes we ordered there.

Hey, at least you weren't wizzing by, Steve...

The chef at Saha is Yemeni, I believe - good wine list, which is always nice. Among all the other places you're going to be near (ish) to, gb, is this very cheap but very delicious Turtle Tower, the very best phở place in SF, but you have to go early 'cause they close at 7:30.

yes to pho

Since you are right there you can also go to Brenda's for breakfast (see link above.)

is Union Square dead on weekends?

Not shopping-wise.

so there's foot-traffic, people hanging out, etc.?

Union Square is horrible why would you want to go there? it is never "dead"

I mean unless you have the need to shop at Macy's or Niketown or something

H&M has nice coats also its the only bart station i can access from the 38 easily.

Union Square is horrible why would you want to go there?

that was my impression before I'd been there, but when I walked through it, it was more attractive than expected, and seemed a decent place to stop briefly and people-watch

when they paved over the "park" in union sq. wtf??

? when was that? I don't remember there ever being a park there, I've lived here for 11 years.

yeah union sq is nothing spesh unless they changed it drastically from last time i was there

assuming that by "park" you mean grass and trees and shrubberies

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I assume s/he means the area that they filmed the opening of The Conversation which could loosely be called a park and which has changed a bit since they filmed that.

yeah, i mean it wasn't like grassy napping destination, but, they made all the "let's discourage homeless people from loitering here" changes that just made it depressing

There used to be a lot more grass until they 'renovated' it starting in '98 until that was finished in '02. It's a whole lot uglier now than it used to be.

dell OTM re: homeless

huh - shows how much time I spend there

i ate at Dosa this weekend. It was pretty good although overpriced for what it was.

we're going there on Saturday (couldn't get a reservation at Delfina, bah!) I like Dosa a lot, one of only a few places in SF where you can get South Indian cooking.

THE CHEESESTEAK PLACE BY MY HOUSE IS THE SHIT

Jay's, right...?

"i ate at Dosa this weekend. It was pretty good although overpriced for what it was."

I have never thought that about Dosa. I think it's pretty comparable with most good Indian fare in the city.

no the yellow one on divizz. jay's is good too but i prefer the vegie cheesesteaks there! the other one is real dead meaty good.

It's on Divis and Post, right?

That one's good, but I prefer Jay's. I cannot eat Seitan or whatever the fuck it's called.

yah post and divis! thats where i live basically! cant find good burritos around here though :(

I usually eat at dirt cheap indian restaurants in berkeley so that was my point of comparison for price. they are good but not "nice", particularly.

anyway, yeah, recommended.

(xpost)It's true, you cannot. :(

Not that I can either. Not without walking ten or so blocks anyway.

On the other hand I can eat German just by opening my front door so yay me!

Ocean Taqueria a couple shops down from the cheesesteak shop is decent but not balls out amazing.

Do you eat at Eric's (or is it Eliza's?), chaki? I've never been to the one there, but the one in Noe Valley (or Potrero) is really good.

Apparently it's called Eliza's there haha.

The Chinese place?

Yup.

Apparently there is some sordid story about the Eliza-Eric split, but the waiter at Eliza's would only tell us that Eric's RIPPED THEM OFF, AND THEY WERE FIRST SO DON'T EAT THERE, OKAY!

i have not! where is that in relation to me?

It's on California between Divis and uh Baker, right?

oh shit thats close! i will go try. i havent ventured too far in that direction! im still new! i usually eat at the cable car burgers and honeybaked ham store lol munchies.

Trying to remember what else is in the area. Have you been to Blue Jay Cafe? It's pretty decent (esp. for breakfast), but I haven't been since I moved out of that neighborhood. Waziema was my favorite restaurant when I lived off Divis, but that's also a ways from where you live.

nah blue jay and waiziema are both easy walks! i havent been to either though! i pass by blue jay when i go to Eddie's for breakfast which is CHEAP and good. how is the bar at waiziema?

Beer and wine only, I think.

honeybaked ham store lol munchies

hahahaha - I have always kinda marvelled at there being a store that traffics ONLY IN HONEYBAKED HAMS

epic sandwiches (turkey and roastbeef too) and two salads for $5.50 out the door.