San Francisco Things to Do Tips by davequ

A great looking building that hosts delicious specialty shops inside, and the really fun and excellent Farmers Market four days a week - Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

You can buy some of the best culinary items in the world (some of the chocolate is to die for) and then sit out back and enjoy it with a great view of the bay.

At this link is an excellent article with details on the Slanted Door and a few of the other excellent places to eat in the Ferry Building:
Best of the Ferry Bldg

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Address: One Ferry Building on the Embarcadero
Directions: along the Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street.
Website: http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/

Walk up to the top of Telegraph for a great city vista and bay view. You can pay $3 and ride the elevator to the observation deck of Coit Tower if you like to get a high, eye-popping 360deg view of the city.

There are some terrific murals painted on the wall inside.

My favorite way to get there is hiking the Green St. steps from the n/e side.
I don't recommend driving your car up as the parking is very limited & you end up idling in your car, wasting gas and time, waiting in line for a space to open up.

If health is an issue and you can't climb / walk up the hill, take a cab, as they can drop you so you don't have to wait to drive in and park.

This is a closeup I took of the Columbus statue and Coit Tower that everybody shoots at one time or another

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Phone: (415) 362- 0808
Address: 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd
Directions: Top of Telegraph Hill
Website: http://www.coittower.org/

Here is a look down my favorite Columbus Ave towards the Financial district,
and here also is the obligatory Café Niebaum-Coppola / Pyramid shot I took (completely unoriginal, but I couldn't help it).
Saturday 2/1/05 ... I brushed out a few of the unsightly cables.

What you say we get loose and go for a nightime North Beach crawl?

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Website: http://www.sfnorthbeach.org/index.html

There are few if any cities on the planet more fun to
just walk around and enjoy.

Like Paris, San Francisco is one of those special, "walking" towns
you can't help but fall in love with.

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Address: Walk the hilltops, anywhere in the City

Take the California St. cable car from in front of Hyatt Regency @ the confluence of California / Drumm / Market st. up to the top of Nob hill and jump off at Grace Cathedral.

The beautiful bronze Ghiberti front doors at the entrance and inside coloured windows are great and worth checking out.

Watch people inside walking the labyrinths.
Grace labyrinths

Then walk back down Nob Hill (east the way you came up) into Chinatown... wander through Chinatown (don't forget lunch) to Embarcadero, or (left/north) stroll through North Beach.

Do this on a sunny day, and I bet San Francisco becomes one of your alltime favorite cities.

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Address: Area surrounding California Street at Taylor
Directions: Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street

Take the California / Van Ness cable car to the top of the hill
Website: http://www.gracecathedral.org/

San Francisco is so beautiful from any angle.

A few suggestions are to check it out from Marin or a boat/ferry on the bay, ... all and any angles the city shines.

Pan of the bridge, bay, City
from Marin Headlands ----------------------->

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Directions: To this spot (Marin Headlands):
From the City: 101 North - cross the GG Bridge. Alexander Ave exit (second exit after crossing gg bridge)

From North - 101 South through the Waldo tunnel
Take Sausalito exit just before the GG Bridge
Website: http://www.nps.gov/goga/marin-headlands.htm

We're peeking at the City through the cables of the Golden Gate bridge from Marin Headlands State Park.

Again, everyone including me takes this same shot, from Morton Beebe & Frederic Larson to everyone at vt, but there is a reason: it is so beautiful.

Go there and take one yourself, ... you'll love it. And don't forget the telephoto lense.

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Phone: (415) 921-5858
Address: Marin Headlands State Park
Directions: Heading back to the City on 101 before the GG bridge,
take the last available Sausalito exit & continue up the hill to Marin Headlands State Park.
Website: http://www.goldengatebridge.org

" ... the city dances on its hills and unashamedly enjoys its own beauty, which has survived many a long night of excesses, both joyous and tragic." © Herb Caen, the `voice and conscience' of the City

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Phone: (415) 362- 0808
Address: 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd
Directions: Facing west from telegraph hill parking lot ledge
Website: http://gocalifornia.about.com/od/casfmenu/a/coittower.htm

After a dinner @Delfina by Mission Delores, I always walk a few streets west to Castro, one of my favorite SF neighborhoods.

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Address: Castro, between 18th and Market Streets
Directions: Take underground muni from Market & Drumm by embarcadero / Hyatt Regency to Castro, or take the F muni streetcars same route.
Website: http://www.thecastrotheatre.com/

And when you get to the Castro @ 18th, stop in for a drink at Harvey's.

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Phone: 415.431.4278
Address: Castro and 18th (500 Castro St.)
Directions: 1 street south of Castro & Market
Website: http://www.sfstation.com/business.php?blId=653