San Francisco and what to do in it

awesome, thanks for the recs.

def some decent stuff in Japantown. Dosa is a block up from Fillmore and Geary and is a good upscale Indian place if you wanna get fancy.

"any food recommendations walking distance from Kaiser on Geary?"

I actually really like Korean place that's literally 100 feet away from the northside Kaiser.

the cheesesteak shop!

you folks are great, all the suggestions will make visiting Kaiser for a few days much easier

well this is odd

http://hoodline.com/2017/04/cafe-du-nord-on-market-street-to-transition-back-to-full-fledged-music-venue

Huh. Weird.

I was walking by there yesterday when I heard someone say "hey did you know Cafe du Nord is closing down?" and my mind went into a gentrification black hole for the thousandth time.

So yeah, weird.

reverting to their previous setup, but still under some configuration of the new ownership, is the headscratcher. I never understood their "let's make this into an upscale bar/restaurant" strategy, seemed strangely myopic about the layout and history of the place.

will be interested to see who does the booking and what their new setup is. Apart from having to cart gear up and down those goddamn stairs, it was def one of our favorite places to play

wasn't particularly fond of it as a venue, but if SF can be plus one music venue and minus one awful upscale bar with generic ambiance and drinks/food, that's a victory.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php

Busted a gut laughing at this line:
“I was shocked to learn this could happen, and am deeply troubled that anyone would choose to take advantage of the situation and buy our street and sidewalks,”

Make that $$$$$$ Tina and Michael!!

fkn hilarious A+ troll

I'm sure they'll get steamrolled by the even richer people of the HOA but it's still amazing.

I mean, I dunno, I kinda love that the tax collector's office was pretty much openly trolling the homeowners even more, they were pretty much flat out saying "Most everyone here knows how to do this and to heck with you if you can't change addresses."

holy crap at the final 2 paragraphs. also lol

Ours is a wonderful city

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ofc/6256376954.html

idg why I'm seeing this all over the place, is the fact that there are entitled assholes here news to anybody

I think for me it's the insane specificity throughout. But 'The Solution' section might be my fave.

(dry senses of humour need not apply)

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Will it be an all night rave

will there be psychedelic drugs

no and no! short sets, and bart friendly lol.

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.