San Francisco and what to do in it

seriously though im all about short sets. no one wants to see more than 20 minutes of anything.

ha I think it's within walking distance for both me n Ned

I'll see if I can get the wife to go/get babysitting

Yeah for me it'll be a matter of staying awake. (Flippant but: usually out by 10 pm these days.)

I'm gonna try to make it just b/c that flyer's so rad.

And b/c Chaki.

I think I have to work that night. :(

Who gets to clean up after MOM?

Wolf Eyes tonight and tomorrow night at the peacock lounge. I'm going tonight. Looking forward to finally catching SBSM.

What's a good place for breakfast/brunch on a Monday morning in San Francisco or Oakland?

Swan Oyster Depot

Swan is great. I had a good breakfast at Plow in Potrero Hill.

you will wait for hours at Plow lol. just go to
pork store

Pork store is good

st francis fountain my dogg

Also good

My wife and I will be in San Francisco for a few nights this summer, late July. I hit up ILX at large for Montreal recommendations last year and it worked out really well, right down to the airbnb location, so I thought I'd do the same for SF. So ... any recommendations for neighborhoods, locations, things to be aware of when booking hotels/airbnb/etc? And obviously if someone has had a great specific experience staying at a particular airbnb, that would be super helpful as well.

It's been eons since I've been to this city, we're pretty excited.

I would stay in Castro/Duboce Triangle/Hayes Valley/Lower Haight/Western Addition area myself as it's super Central and easy to walk/bus around from and not quite as tourist-y as Union Square/North Beach/Fisherman's Wharf/etc. The city's very small and public transit even from the avenues runs pretty frequently so there are no real bad choices as far as where to stay although I'd check Google Maps to and from an address to just double-check how long it takes to get stuff you're super into.

Thanks! The most specific recommendations I've received so far have been to a) stay in the Mission between Valencia and Guerrero and b) avoid Fisherman's Wharf. Seems like a lot of the big hotels are in ... Union Square? But I don't know if we're going the big hotel route.

Yeah, that's the big hotels and if you're not going that route or just simply don't care, don't bother. Alex in SF's recommendations are correct.

Muir Woods now requires parking and shuttle reservations so if you were planning on going there you'll want to reserve your spot sooner than later.

Not positive we're going to Muir Woods, though I think we're going to take a bike tour, so that might be on the menu. The only thing for sure we have figured out (we will be making our way down the coast, more or less, beginning in Eureka through Mendocino and the Sonoma Valley) is a night tour of Alcatraz, which will sell out but which doesn't go on sale until 90 days beforehand.

We got a great deal at a boutique hotel near Market & 5th when we went back in 2016. It worked well, since it's pretty easy to get around. I recommend dinner at Nopa and getting the cioppino at Sotto Mare (not typically a seafood guy, but I loved it).

Alcatraz tour was way more fun than I expected, but make sure to book it ahead - we missed the window for getting the night tour, which would've been even cooler.

We did a day trip that started out in the morning at Muir Woods then up to Napa/Sonoma for a winery tour. Thought it worked nicely.

Other things we enjoyed:
walking the Sutro Baths "ruins"
SFMoMA
getting Pliny the Elder on tap
Coit Tower
De Young museum
Amoebea/Rasputin for record shopping
walking by the old Aquarius locations to see the sign and weep silently
City Lights bookstore

oops, clearly Aquarius "location"

oh, if you go to Nopa for dinner, follow up with pies at Chile Pies Baking Co. great pies

As touristy as north beach is, Specs and Vesuvio's are both pretty great bars.

Alcatraz is indeed worth it.

I think we're going to take a bike tour

How many miles have you got in you? There's a lot of fantastic choices.

Short: Bike across GG Bridge to Tiburon ferry dock, take ferry back (if you go in the reverse direction, there's ~250ft climb up to the bridge)
Pretty long: Bike to Muir Beach and back
As long as you'd like: Bike north through Marin and Sonoma, take SMART train back (various options to get back from San Rafael)

And of course you can go east (but hot in July) or south (Hwy 1 to Santa Cruz) too.

if you find yourself in north beach tony geminani's pizza slice joint (by stockton and filbert iirc) is pretty stellar and a nice little walk to/from coit tower. also, land's end (where geary street ends at the beach), i think that's the same as the sutro bath ruins, is really nice on a warm day. and Swan's is always the bomb (cash only) for oysters, house cured salmon and other fishy delights

Yesterday Kate and I were at this new spot in Chinatown before a reading at City Lights:

https://chinalivesf.com/

Very self-consciously higher end than a lot of what is around it. The layout's nice and the food was excellent, so there's that.

Since you're starting in Eureka go to Humboldt Redwood State Park on your way south. After that, no need to go to Muir Woods.

Last time we were in the Eureka area we stayed in Trinidad, about 10 miles north of Eureka. They have a great little coastal community. Highly recommended if you want to get away from it all.

the new joint across from nopa, barvale, is p good.

All these recommendations have been great, thanks! Keep 'em coming!

Re: the bike tour, we have pretty much a whole Saturday open, and it seems like a lot of the operators offer all sorts of options, which is great. And they promise it doesn't have to be an ordeal, if we don't want it to be.

We got a great deal at a boutique hotel near Market & 5th when we went back in 2016.

Do you remember what is was called? Maybe Hotel Zetta?

Yep! That was it exactly!

Super friendly place, clean, good service. Bar and lounge downstairs, but to be honest we were so busy exploring the city that we p much just crashed in our rooms every night when we got back.

the new joint across from nopa, barvale, is p good.

Seconding. We were there the other week, great cocktails, good food.

Thanks for all the ongoing recommendations. We just booked an airbnb ("Victorian garden suite"!) in NoPA, so that part is done. Next step is filling in time slots as we creep closer to the (late July) date.

lots of stuff to do in san francisco lately

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-are-leaving-san-francisco-2018-3

We are playing Thursday at the Elbo Room;

https://www.facebook.com/events/1561835020558986??ti=ia

dammit i live a block away and i'm stuck down the peninsula tonight

Hello people what’s good to eat around the TL. Will travel just looking 4 tips. Maybe in the 2-3 dollar sign range

There's always Del Taco.

More seriously -- this spot's recently opened, a half block from the Great American Music Hall, and was damn delicious. Was just there last night.

https://esanclassic.com/

TL tends to excel at the one dollar sign cuisine, like Shalimar, Turtle Tower or Saigon Sandwiches. But I bet Ned's pick is good.

I am also more than down for one $ sign. 2-3 was more of a ceiling. Thank you!!

here's a thing to do in San Francisco
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/979/41848078352_986da54df9.jpg

Are they leaving on a rocket

shakey always has the best designs

awesome poster

So I'm doing a thing next weekend to raise money for the Great Slate, which also features excellent house music (hooray for Dav1d S1ska.)

Tickets are here or Facebook if you want me to spam you with DJ mixes and candidate interviews in the runup.

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which one? the Facebook or the Eventbrite?

Eventbrite