Top off your San Francisco Day with a Fabulous San Francisco Night

San Francisco's nightlife is creeping back slowly but eagerly. 

Don't let the small confines of San Francisco fool you - there are plenty of activities to choose from at night. Roam the hills of North Beach and...

Tom Molanphy
Sun...

Slurp up the sea at San Francisco's best oyster bars

Just as San Francisco's fog isn't for everyone, San Francisco's oysters aren't for everyone. Sure they don't look all that appetizing, and their slippery texture might take a while to get used to.

But nothing...

Tom Molanphy
Sunday, October 2nd...

Day trip from San Francisco to Half Moon Bay for a full day of fun

If a trip to a Northern California coastal town from San Francisco is on your itinerary, and you'd like to avoid the traffic of the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin or Sonoma, consider a relaxing drive south to Half...

Tom Molanphy
Frid...

Food like nowhere else: the best restaurants of San Francisco

One of the best ways to judge a city - aside from its array of museums - is the quality and variety of the restaurants it offers. Using that scale, San Francisco is easily one of the top ten cities in the world,...

Tom Molanphy
Wednesda...

Visit a country inside the city of San Francisco

Established in 1848, San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest and oldest neighborhood of its kind in the country. Drawing more visitors annually than the uber-popular Golden Gate Bridge, this really is a country...

Tom Molanphy
Wednesday, August 31s...

Beers for cheers: best bars for sports in San Francisco

Cheers, groans, beer, and plenty of big-screen TVs - they're the major components of any popular sports bar, and we bring you the top entries in San Francisco. Meet your buddies for wings, nachos, and a full slate...

Tom Molanphy
Saturday, Ju...

All That is Golden: 10 Best Attractions in San Francisco

Tony Bennett would hate to reduce his beloved San Francisco to ten heart-stealing attractions. From iconic attractions like the Golden Gate Bridge and the country's first official Chinatown, San Francisco is a...

Tom Molanphy
Saturday, July ...

10 Best Places to Leave Your Money (and Your Heart) in San Francisco

Whatever you're looking for, San Francisco has it. Need that particularly authentic California knick-knack to bring back home to remember your trip? Then wander up and down Haight Street for a whiff of San...

Tom Molanphy
Friday,...

A Sparkling View: Best Restaurants on the Waterfront in San Francisco

What does it mean to say a city is world-class?

It usually means that the city has something that no other city can offer. In the case of San Francisco, her mild climate and unbeatable water views make the City...

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When in San Francisco's North Beach, do as the Italians do

The San Francisco restaurant scene is as stable as the city's earthquakey ground. With tech-boom-and-bust money coming and going, new restaurants are popping up left and right, each one declaring itself the latest...

Tom Molanphy
Tuesday, ...

Bring Your Appetite to San Francisco's Potluck of Asian Restaurants

With so many fantastic restaurants to choose from in San Francisco, be sure to take the time to set your expectations for your meal. If you're only in San Francisco for four days, for example, you have four...

Tom Molanphy
Tuesday...

Shake like an Earthquake at the Best San Francisco Night Clubs

San Francisco is a city of many pleasures. Museums can stimulate the mind and offer fascinating knowledge to bring back home. There are more restaurants per capita in San Francisco than any other U.S. city, so...

Tom Molanphy
Monday, M...

Expanding Mission: Best restaurants in San Francisco's hottest 'hood

Finding the "perfect" meal in San Francisco can feel like Mission Impossible. Who knew so many food options could be squashed into forty-nine square miles? If you're tired of climbing the hills of North Beach or...

Tom Molanphy
M...

Stay Like You Mean It: 10 Best Hotels in San Francisco

So what really separates the good hotels from the best hotels?

We'd argue it's the quality and reliability of the service. If you're ready to lavish yourself in luxury, then the high-end hotels of The Palace, The...

Tom Molanphy
Thursday, Mar...

The Bold and the Beautiful: NorCal Beaches You Don't Want to Miss

What makes the Bay Area unique is its microclimate system. At the height of summer, it can be eighty-degrees on sunny Stinson Beach and hovering in the mid-fifties less than a dozen miles south at Ocean Beach. If...

Tom Molanphy
Thu...

Join us for a stroll through this five-acre world-famous garden. Learn about the icons of the Garden and the family that lived there. Admission to garden required except on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30 morning tour.

San Francisco's connection with the movies goes back more than 125 years to the dawn of the moving picture. From iconic locations to obscure alleys, San Francisco was the setting for hundreds of silent films from the 1890s on, with stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney and Rudolph Valentino. Many o...

Explore the most exclusive corner of Pacific Heights; where, since the late 19th century, San Francisco's wealthiest families have built mansions with spectacular views of the bay. Find out which rehab program had its headquarters in this unlikely setting and visit a humble church that ignited a new architectural movement.

Venture through a history-rich area of the famous Mission district. Learn about the neighborhood's Spanish mission, its miraculous survival from the 1906 earthquake and fire, and how immigrants ranging from Native Americans and the first Europeans to present-day techies have shaped its unique identity. See a spectacular view of ...

This tour has everything. Soaring design, stunning engineering, terrifying geology, ripping currents and tides, famous fog, sailboats, ships and marine mammals, fearless ironworkers, cowardly bankers ... and then there's the view!

The tolling of historic bells cast halfway around the world, a rare building type from 1861, a grand Italiante manor house, and San Francisco's most exotic building. These and other unique experiences await you on the Cow Hollow tour.

Shocking! Revolting! Subversive! Partisan hysteria echoed from San Francisco to Washington D.C. when these murals were unveiled. Powerful voices called for their destruction, yet 30 years later they saved the building from demolition. The murals tell many stories, from the growth of San Francisco to Cold War politics. Discover t...

San Francisco is well-known for changing the world through innovative, even revolutionary, ideas and actions in politics, business, technology and society. Many of these changes occurred along the northern waterfront, where Gold Rush pioneers, labor organizers, entrepreneurs, genius inventors, and architects helped created our m...