San Francisco Travel Blog

If you’re not aware of the street food trend in San Francisco, you either live under a rock or simply don’t eat. Would-be street eaters are enduring waits comparable to those at the hottest indoor eateries in town. There are, after all, no reservations for street carts.   Carts pepper the...

San Francisco is famously libertine in its attitudes toward alternative communities of all stripes, and this weekend the leather and fetish communities will be out in full force for the Up Your Alley Fair on Sunday, July 25. Up Your Alley Fair is the younger, naughtier sister to the major Folsom Street...

San Francisco has long been a hotbed of culinary innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. But the latest trend to hit the foodie scene isn’t new at all — it’s old. Some of the city’s newest establishments are paying homage to the city’s great and long history as a dining...

Remember when fusion cuisine was all the rage? Just the mere thought of the culinary mashup of East and West sends us into a nostalgic reverie inflected with dot-com boomtime excess and Clinton administration swagger. And according to Michael Bauer, fusion seems to have died right along with them....

San Franciscans are passionate about their favorite Mexican eateries, and everyone is quick to claim their chosen burrito joint as the best in the city. But by and large the famous San Francisco burrito is not an authentic Mexican food at all, but rather one that evolved in the city’s own vibrant...

Today is a dark day in San Francisco history. Thirty-two years ago, openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk was cut short when Dan White, who had recently resigned his post as supervisor, entered City Hall through an open window with a loaded gun. White first killed then Mayor George Moscone, then...

Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown, Union Square: If you’ve been there, done that, and are looking for something more off the beaten track, then seek out the parklands and points of interest in the outermost points of the city. The easiest to approach is the northeast corner. A stroll up from...

The City by the Bay is a famously foodie destination, and you could put on a pound or twenty trying to taste its many splendors. So why not burn off a few calories while working up that appetite by taking a culinary walking tour? The grande dame of these tasty tours is Shirley Fong-Torres, founder...

San Francisco is home to several respectable arts institutions, from the thoroughly modern SFMOMA to the recently rebuilt De Young, whose burnished copper observation tower rises above the canopy of trees in Golden Gate Park. But there’s no shortage of remarkable works of art just sitting out...