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Breathtaking climate, scenery as diverse and beautiful as the people, and
adventure around every corner – SuzyTraveler; Ozark, Missouri

San Francisco is the number one travel destination in the USA! – Condé Nast

We are visited by almost sixteen million people each year.

We are the second most-visited city in the known universe!


Someone asked:
WHAT ARE THE
DON’T-MISS SIGHTS
IN
SAN FRANCISCO
?
This page has some that will take about 122 hours (nine 13½ hour days) to see.



A link to links to EVERYTHING, most of which you've never thought!
Because the above site is so comprehensive, few URLs are given here.
They are, however, being added for your convenience.

Favorite Restaurants
Links to Maps
City Hall's Information for Visitors
The San Andreas Fault About Earthquakes
USGS's Information about Earthquakes
Highly recommended: City Guides

CAVEAT EMPTOR
Commercial sites and publications should be regarded with extreme skepticism because they are more likely to recommend those who advertise with them, regardless of quality, in preference to The Best who mightn't advertise with them. Further, such sites and publications might not have what you seek only because they do not pay to be mentioned. You are advised, regardless of where you travel, to ask local people about commercial sites' and publications' recommendations. ……
Here's article every traveller should read.

Here's article about penny pinching without the pain.


Please suggest an oversight that you think should be included.

GRATIS
Beach Chalet (a.k.a. Golden Gate National Recreation Area headquarters)
Beniamino Bufano's best work
Cable Car Powerhouse and Museum
China Beach (aka James D. Phelan State Beach) [per David Kaye]
Chinatown, CHina [Telephone] Exchange, Portsmouth Square
City Hall
Clement Street from Arguello Boulevard to Park Presidio Boulevard [per Dave Hatunen]
Cliff House
Columbarium, The
Crown-Zellerbach Building
Dozens of Art Galleries
Eureka Valley's Castro Commercial Neighborhood
Ferry Building
The Filbert Street Steps [per Hatunen]
Fisherman's Wharf
Fort Funston [Hatunen]
Fort Point [per Craig Glassner]
Golden Gate Bridge at this site       The Official site

Grant Avenue (duPont Street) from Market Street to Lombard Street
Haight Street from Central Avenue to Stanyan Street (Haight-Ashbury)
Hundreds of Beautiful Victorian Homes a.k.a. Painted Ladies
Jackson Square
Japantown
Lincoln Boulevard through El Camino del Mar [Hatunen]
Maiden Lane
Market Street from the Ferry Building to Dolores Street
Market Street Railway
Melvin Belli's office (look through the window) Too late. It's gone!
Mission Dolores
Mission Street from 16th Street to Cortland Avenue (The Mission)
Mount Davidson
Painted Ladies
Palace of Fine Arts, Exploratorium
Pink Triangle Park
Plaque, Bronze, where Brigid O'Shaughnessy shot Miles Archer [Hatunen]
Polk Gulch
The Presidio, Presidio Army Museum (what's left of it!); MAP
Saint Mary's Cathedral, Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
San Francisco Bay Bridge
Scientology (née TransAmerica née Fugazi Bank) Building
Scores of Murals       Various       Mission       Mona Caron's
Streetcars from around the world
Sutro Baths' ruins
Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, Marconi Monument
Thousands of the World's Best People
Tiled Steps
Tivoli Bed & Breakfast
TransAmerica Pyramid
Twenty-fourth Street from Castro Street (Noe Valley) to Potrero Avenue
Twin Peaks
Wave Organ

For the above, allow approximately 76 hours.

GRATIS
Alamo Square
Alcatraz Island [per Glassner]
Golden Gate Park, Steinhart Aquarium, Strybing Arboretum,
………California Academy of Sciences, Dutch Windmill, Strawberry Hill
Nob Hill, Grace Cathedral and Labyrinth, Huntington Park
Justin Herman Plaza; walk through Vaillancourt Fountain
Lincoln Park, Holocaust Memorial
McLaren Park (Magnificent views!)
Union Square
Washington Square, Saints Peter and Paul
For the above, allow approximately 20 hours.

GRATIS
Carnelian Room
Clift Hotel, Redwood Room (recently “remodeled” to trash!)
CityScape
Fairmont Hotel, Lobby, Crown Room, Tonga Room, Formal garden
Palace Hotel, Garden Court, Maxfield's
Regency Hotel, Eclipse, Equinox
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Saint Francis Hotel
Top o'The Mark
For the above, allow approximately 5 hours.

Keep San Francisco Green
BRING MONEY!
Cable Cars ($)
African Diaspora, Museum of the
Contemporary Jewish Museum, The
M. H. de Young Museum
Haas-Lillienthal House
Japanese Tea Garden
Octagon House
Palace of the Legion of Honor
For the above, allow approximately 21 hours.




Where To Find Our Mobile Food!

OUR FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
They provide fine flavors, adequate quantity, and fair value.
You can pay more to eat here but you cannot buy better.
We have hundreds of restaurants that, elsewhere, would be
THE BEST IN TOWN!
Approximate co$t ≤$20 | $$: 20-39 | $$$: 40-59 | $$$$: ≥$60 per person

Barbecue
Cajun
Caribbean
Chinese
Chinese/Seafood
Ethiopian
Indian
Indian
Italian/Pizza
Italian
Italian
Indonesian
Japanese
Japanese
Korean
Korean
Lebanese
Mexican
Pizza
Pizza/Italian
Prime Rib
Seafood/Chinese
Steak
Thai
Viet-Namese
American
Chinese
Eritrean
Mexican/Seafood
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Lily's née Brother-in-Law's
Elite Café
Charanga
Chef Jia's
Great Eastern
Rasselas
Tikka Masala
Na'an 'n' Curry
Tomasso's
Swiss Louis
Cæsar's Italian Restaurant
Borobudur Restaurant
Sushi Suki
Ebisu
Won Mi
Myung Dong
Oasis Grill
Taqueria San Francisco
Marcello's
Tomasso's
House of Prime Rib
Great Eastern
Boboquivari's
Manora's
Tu-Lan
Coda Jazz Supper Club CLOSED!
Ly Luck Change of Ownership
Massawa CLOSED!
Bahia CLOSED!
Divisadero near Grove Street
Fillmore Street near Pine Street
Mission Street near Twentieth Street
Kearny Street near Pacific Avenue
Jackson Street near Grant Avenue
Fillmore Street near Geary Street
Haight Street opposite Belvedere Street
O'Farrell Street near Mason Street
Kearny Street near Broadway
Top left rear of Pier 39
Powell Street at Bay Street
Post Street at Jones Street
West Portal near Fifteenth Avenue
Ninth Avenue near Irving Street
Fillmore Street near Geary Street
Eddy Street near Taylor Street
Drumm Street near Sacramento Street
Twenty-fourth Street near Hampshire Street
Castro Street near Market Street
Kearny Street near Broadway
Van Ness Avenue near Jackson Street
Jackson Street near Grant Avenue
Lombard Street near Franklin Street
Twelfth Street at Folsom Street
Sixth Street near Market Street

Mission Sreet near Duboce Avenue
Mission Street near Lawrence Avenue
Haight Street near Ashbury Street
Twenty-second Street at Bartlett Street

Michelin 2011 recommends Coi then, alphabetically, Acquerello, Ame, Aziza, Boulevard, Campton Place, The Dining Room at The Ritz-Carlton, Fleur de Lys, Frances, La Folie, Luce, Masa's, One Market Restaurant, Quince, Saison, and Spruce.
Michelin 2010 recommended Coi then, alphabetically, Acquerello, Ame, Aziza, Boulevard, Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton, Fifth Floor, Fleur de Lys, Gary Danko, La Folie, Luce, Masa's, Michael Mina, One Market, Quince, and Range.
James Beard Foundation Awards nominees, 2010
New restaurant: Flour + Water, Frances, RN74
Chef: Gary Danko; Charles Phan, Slanted Door
Restaurant: Boulevard — Service: Michael Mina
Wine service: A16; Restaurant Gary Danko
Chef (California/Hawaii): Michael Tusk, Quince


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Restaurant Reviews: Yelp
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We have about 3,950 places to eat: restaurants, takeouts, and fast food dispensers.
If you're concerned about healthy food, click to query the place of your concern.

Our STEEPEST STREETS: Twenty-second Street between Vicksburg and Church streets and Filbert Street between Hyde and Leavenworth streets have a 31½% grade.


San Francisco has about nine CLIMATEs — — Temperatures Forecast Seacliff, where the idle rich live, has the worst; Dogpatch, where the working poor live, has the best. We NEVER go out without carrying a sweater or jacket and you shouldn't. Those you see covered in goose pimples shivering in their shorts are those at whom we laugh not for their misery but for their arrogance in rejecting the advice we know they, and you, received. ………………………………………………………………
Around five o'clock the evening of September 27, 2010, there was a difference
of 21°F between the Ingleside District (72°F) and the Mission District (93°F).

Around three o'clock the afternoon of August 23, 2011, there was a difference
of 25°F between the Ingleside District (59°F) and the Union Square (84°F).


DUBOCE PARK: ~37.77°N 122.43°W                                         Altitude: ~22m/72'

Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
Jun.
Jul.
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
YEAR
°F
50.7
53.8
55.0
56.1
57.6
59.4
59.5
60.4
62.6
61.9
57.4
52.0
57.2
°C
10.4
12.1
12.8
13.4
14.2
15.2
15.3
15.8
17.0
16.6
14.1
11.1
14.0

LAKE MERCED: ~37.73°N 122.50°W                                         Altitude: ~10m/32'
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. YEAR
°F
50.2
52.7 53.1 54.1 55.4 57.2 58.5 59.5 60.4 59.4 55.0 50.7 55.6
°C
10.1 11.5 11.7 12.3 13.0 14.0 14.7 15.3 15.8 15.2 12.8 10.4 13.1


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