What would you do in San Francisco again?
 

You came, you saw, you loved it. What would you come back to do again?

1. Musee Mechanique
2. any and all taco joints
3. Coit Tower in the early a.m.
4. Bowling alley at Yerba Buena Gardens.

and much more.

Spend two more weeks and absorb every part of it again. Tony Bennett was absolutely correct: I left my heart in San Francisco; and the perplexing part is, I don't want it back...

I know I am cheating because I live here but my family in New York always get Pronto Pups while they are here. And I don't mean just one Pronto Pup. They will go three or four times in a week.

What are Pronto Pups?

I'd get another little apt in the Marina and just walk all over the city every day and learn it all over again. It has been many years since I lived there.
I remember some place called the Yerba Buena where I had my first Pims Cup..
I would walk in the fog.
I would eat in that place in Chinatown that is upstairs and the food is amazing.

I live in Southern California and have been lucky enough to visit San Francisco many times.
A visit to Alcatraz is what I would do again.

Teatro Zinzanni
(In the interests of full disclosure, I live in the Bay Area.)

Eat at Tommaso's, 1042 Kearny St., (415) 398-9696, get a cheap carafe of wine at dinner and then watch the sunset, up the street, at Coit tower. (sigh)

Aloohaaa,
Did it last weekend and I'm ready to go back again.
I'd have to say Alcatraz since I now have a handy dandy digi-cam that I can have some fun with.

Also, as someone mentioned, Coit Tower either at sunset or sunrise.
Oh...cocktails at the Carnelian Room.(Since I don't want my heart to get lonely, I'll leave my liver in SF to keep it company)
Scarlett-Pims Cup? I had you pegged at a C Cup? O:)

Kal

Eat great Dim Sum at Ton Kiang (5821 Geary Blvd) and ride the cable car down to the wharf and just explore areas of SF that I missed last time....

Alcatraz, at night this time; Chinatown, to walk and eat; Golden Gate Park, in fog if possible.

Top of the Mark for drinks at sunset.

A hike to Coit Tower, then dinner in North Beach.

Golden Gate Park, any time.

WOW! GailLK, how did you find out about Ton Kiang? It is some of the BEST dim sum in San Francisco but usually tourists never find restaurants like that since they are out of the way.

A Pronto Pup is a corn dog...they sell them up at the Cliff House (although I don't know if they are still there since they started the renovations). It is a gooood corndog though.

Mmmmmmm corn dogs, used to eat them by Fishermans Wharf. We would sit on the steps by Ghiradelli and people watch on a summer afternoon.

Please be advised (slyypper) that Musee Mechnigue moved out to the Fishermen's Warf area.

The Stinking Rose - where we season our garlic with food.

Keith

The Crown Room in the Fairmont for Sunday brunch

Best panoramic view of the city - better than the Carnelian Room, the top of the Marriott, Top of the Mark, the revolving restaurant, Equinox, at the top of the Hyatt, etc.

Great buffet brunch as well - so many desserts, so little time!

(ssshh! don't tell too many people! I don't like to wait too long to get a seat!) :)

What I would definitely do again:
*Brunch at the Palace Hotel
*Hike to Coit Tower
*See the sea lions (I find them enormously entertaining)
*Rent a bike and ride across the GG bridge to Sausalito and Tiburon

We really especially enjoyed:

- walking across the GG bridge
- taking the ferry to Sausalito
- going to a beach (I forget the name, it looked across to the Marin headlands mostly) It had tidepools with starfish, anemones, sea urchins, etc. and a beautiful view of the headlands and the bridge
- the view from the Palace of the Legion of Honor - or do I mean the Palace of Fine Arts? - the one that's a museum up on a hill with trees around it where you can look in one direction and see the Pacific and look in the other and see the whole SF city skyline, etc.
- OK, the area's pretty tacky, but we really liked watching the seals at Fisherman's wharf/Pier 39

Walk up and down Columbus Avenue deciding which little eatry to try, then picking one and going in. We have never been disappointed, just have found some better than others, but never had bad meal.

Coit Tower.

Tonga Room in Fairmont for drink - ah so tacky but so good at same time.

Ferry across bay to Sausalito is always fun.

1) Cable Car! VERY touristy, VERY FUN!

2) Alcatraz Tour

3) Pier 39 and sea lion 'show'

4) Coit Tower

5) Fortune Cookie place, a little 'factory' off a little alley (name escapes me) Enjoyed a VERY interesting convo with an employee!

We'd also stay at the Columbus Motor Inn again. Good location, free parking, great view (from 3rd floor) and GREAT rate!

1. Second vote for renting a bike and riding across GG Bridge. Continue on to Tiburon and take the ferry back to the city with hundreds of other bikes and their owners.
2. Drinks and dinner at Betelnut.
3. Hike in Muir woods & down to Stinson Beach for lunch. Hike back up and work off lunch.
4. Always reserve a day and go wine tasting. Hire a ride and leave the driving to someone else.
5. See a Giants game. Eat some garlic fries.

More early morning runs from the Hyatt along the Embarcadero area to Fisherman's Wharf. What a way to start the day/tour/get ready to dine!

Second for Muir Woods. What a beautiful area.

Walk, walk, walk and enjoy the neighborhoods along the way. Could never get my fill.

More time in the Japanese Tea Garden and Golden Gate Park.

What will I do differently next trip? Always, but always, carry a sweater with me, no matter how sunny and beautiful it seems at the moment we set out from the hotel. I've never known such bone chilling cold as the cold that accompanies that fog!

*Cocktails in the Compass Rose bar at the Westin-especially at Christmas!

*Cable car at night from the Buena Vista to Union Square the view across the city- Coit Tower- is manifique!

*Section 302 for a day game at Pac Bell
via the Larkspur Ferry.

*Theatre followed by supper at Liverpool Lil's.

*Prowling the shops and galleries on Sacramento Street between Presidio and Divisidero.

Since I live in Sonoma County, I guess I just like the quieter sides of The City!

Damn! Do I really have to wait until Sept. to go back to SF? :((

Ahhhh...Stinson Beach.
One of our "first date" locations. Might say Mrs Kal and I joined the "Sea Level Club". :-X

R5, I've hurled off that very street car after leaving the BV in the early 70s. Ahhhh...memories. No wait...or was that last week? :-?

We did have cocktails at The Compass Rose Room last month. Had a seat by the window and watched the sunset over UnSq.

Took my bike down when Mrs Kal was running the B2B one year and it was awsome riding in downtown SF without having to have your head on a swivel looking for cars.
Nice ride along Embarc/or a run as mentioned too. Sigghhhhhhhhh.
Let's see...if I leave now I can make it to The Wash Bag by.....
Kal

We're making a special trip in a few weeks just for the Chagall exhibit at the SFMOMA--check out their website. I lived in S.F. for many years and they didn't use to have such great art shows then. Also, plan to go to dinner at Pane e Vino at Sutter & Steiner. And may meet up with some other Fodor addicts if the timing is right. (Check out Europe chat under are you and addict?)

walk through Chinatown

go to Molinari's in North Beach for a sandwish and wine

take an art walk in Mission district

have tiramisu at Cafe Greco

take a bus