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Restaurants
With well over three thousand restaurants crammed onto the small peninsula,
and scores of bars and cafés open all day, eating in San Francisco is
never difficult. Eating is the culture in this town, with excellent
food often at modest prices. Mexican food in the Mission, Italian food
in North Beach, Chinese food in Chinatown and Japanese in heart
of Japantown. In health-conscious San Francisco you'll find vegetarian
entrees on every menu and quite a few entirely vegetarian restaurants. Quality
wines have a high profile in most San Francisco restaurants. Choose and
area below to find something to nosh.
~The
Marina, Embarcadero, Fisherman's Wharf,
~North Beach and Chinatown
~The
Castro, Haight-Ashbury and Japantown
~The
Sunset and Richmond
Attractions & Activities
Alcatraz,
Before the rocky islet of Alcatraz became America's most dreaded high-security
prison, in 1934, it had been home to little more than the odd pelican ( alcatraz
in Spanish). At least 750,000 tourists each year take the excellent hour-long,
self-guided audio tours of the abandoned prison, which include some sharp
anecdotal commentary and even the chance to spend a minute (it feels like
forever) locked in a darkened cell.
Golden
Gate Bridge The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, perhaps the
best-loved symbol of San Francisco, are visible from almost every high point in
the city. The bridge, which spans 4200ft, had taken only 52 months to design and
build when it was opened in 1937. The Fort Point National Historic Site
beneath the bridge gives a good sense of the place as the westernmost outpost of
the nation. This brick fortress, built in the 1850s, has a dramatic site, the
surf pounding away beneath the great span of the bridge high above - a view made
famous by Kim Novak's suicide attempt in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
A
small museum (Thurs-Mon 10am-5pm; free) inside the fort displays some
rusty old cannons and artillery.
The
Haight-Ashbury The fame of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, far
outstrips its size. No more than eight blocks in length, centered around the
junction of Haight and Ashbury streets, "The Haight" was a run-down
Victorian neighborhood until it transmogrified into the epitome of cool during
the 1960s. Since then the area has become gentrified, but it retains a
collection of radical bookstores, laid-back cafés, record stores and secondhand
clothing emporia. Night Life
Compared to many US cities, where you need money and attitude in equal
measure, San Francisco's nightlife scene demands little of either. It is
not unusual for restaurants to provide live music and you can often eat and be
entertained for no extra cost.
~Clubbing
San Francisco
~Bars
San Francisco
~Live
music: rock, jazz and folk San Francisco
~Theater
San Francisco
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