Frommer's San Francisco 2011

✍ Scribed by Matthew R. Poole, Erika Lenkert, Bonnie Wach

• Publisher: Frommers
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Series: Frommer's Complete
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

• This book features hundreds of full-color photos to bring this cultural mecca to vivid life.
• Thoroughly updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's San Francisco features everything you need to know to enjoy the sights and experiences that await you in the City by the Bay.
• Our author, a longtime resident hits all the highlights, from Golden Gate Park to North Beach. He's checked out all the city's best hotels and restaurants in person, and will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. 
• Features a particularly thorough guide to dining in this American culinary mecca. Our honest, irreverent, and opinionated dining reviews encompass everything from the best dim sum to the freshest seafood, from affordable burrito joints and Vietnamese restaurants to trendy bistros opened by California's hottest chefs to fresh food markets for noshing.
• Includes side trips to Berkeley, Sausalito, Muir Woods, Point Reyes, and more. There's also a detailed chapter on the nearby Wine Country, with the best wineries, inns, spas, and gourmet shopping, and the most decadent restaurants in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys.
• Includes a full-color foldout map.

✦ Table of Contents

Frommer's San Francisco 2011......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 5
LIST OF MAPS......Page 8
CHAPTER 1: THE BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO......Page 11
THE best ONLY-IN-SAN FRANCISCO EXPERIENCES......Page 13
THE best MODERATELY PRICED HOTELS......Page 14
THE best DINING EXPERIENCES......Page 15
THE best THINGS TO DO FOR FREE (OR ALMOST)......Page 17
THE best OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES......Page 19
THE best OFFBEAT TRAVEL EXPERIENCES......Page 21
CHAPTER 2: SAN FRANCISCO IN DEPTH......Page 24
SAN FRANCISCO TODAY......Page 25
LOOKING BACK AT SAN FRANCISCO......Page 26
SAN FRANCISCO IN POPULAR CULTURE: BOOKS, FILMS & MUSIC......Page 41
CHAPTER 3: PLANNING YOUR TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO......Page 46
WHEN TO GO......Page 47
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS......Page 51
GETTING THERE & GETTING AROUND......Page 53
MONEY & COSTS......Page 62
SAFETY......Page 64
SPECIALIZED TRAVEL RESOURCES......Page 65
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM......Page 68
STAYING CONNECTED......Page 69
CHAPTER 4: SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOODS & SUGGESTED ITINERARIES......Page 72
THE BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO IN 1 DAY......Page 80
THE BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO IN 2 DAYS......Page 85
THE BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO IN 3 DAYS......Page 87
CHAPTER 5: WHERE TO STAY......Page 90
THE BEST HOTEL BETS......Page 92
UNION SQUARE......Page 93
NOB HILL......Page 112
SOMA......Page 116
THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT......Page 124
NORTH BEACH/FISHERMAN’S WHARF......Page 125
THE MARINA/PACIFIC HEIGHTS/COW HOLLOW......Page 128
JAPANTOWN & ENVIRONS......Page 132
THE CASTRO......Page 133
HAIGHT-ASHBURY......Page 134
NEAR SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT......Page 135
CHAPTER 6: WHERE TO DINE......Page 136
THE BEST DINING BETS......Page 138
UNION SQUARE......Page 139
FINANCIAL DISTRICT......Page 149
SOMA......Page 154
NOB HILL/RUSSIAN HILL......Page 160
CHINATOWN......Page 161
NORTH BEACH/TELEGRAPH HILL......Page 165
FISHERMAN’S WHARF......Page 169
THE MARINA/PACIFIC HEIGHTS/COW HOLLOW......Page 173
CIVIC CENTER/HAYES VALLEY......Page 180
MISSION DISTRICT......Page 185
THE CASTRO & NOE VALLEY......Page 190
HAIGHT-ASHBURY......Page 194
RICHMOND/SUNSET DISTRICTS......Page 196
CHAPTER 7: EXPLORING SAN FRANCISCO......Page 200
FAMOUS SAN FRANCISCO SIGHTS......Page 201
MUSEUMS......Page 214
NEIGHBORHOODS WORTH A VISIT......Page 226
THE PRESIDIO & GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA......Page 233
GOLDEN GATE PARK......Page 238
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS WORTH CHECKING OUT......Page 241
ARCHITECTURAL HIGHLIGHTS......Page 242
SELF-GUIDED & ORGANIZED TOURS......Page 246
GETTING OUTSIDE......Page 250
SPECTATOR SPORTS......Page 255
CHAPTER 8: CITY STROLLS......Page 256
WALKING TOUR 1: CHINATOWN: HISTORY, CULTURE, DIM SUM & THEN SOME......Page 257
WALKING TOUR 2: GETTING TO KNOW NORTH BEACH......Page 265
CHAPTER 9: SHOPPING......Page 273
THE SHOPPING SCENE......Page 274
SHOPPING A TO Z......Page 276
CHAPTER 10: SAN FRANCISCO AFTER DARK......Page 295
THE PERFORMING ARTS......Page 297
COMEDY & CABARET......Page 302
THE CLUB & MUSIC SCENE......Page 303
THE BAR SCENE......Page 310
GAY & LESBIAN BARS & CLUBS......Page 319
FILM......Page 323
CHAPTER 11: SIDE TRIPS FROM SAN FRANCISCO......Page 324
BERKELEY......Page 325
OAKLAND......Page 335
ANGEL ISLAND & TIBURON......Page 341
SAUSALITO......Page 344
MARIN, MUIR WOODS & MOUNT TAMALPAIS......Page 350
CHAPTER 12: THE WINE COUNTRY......Page 353
NAPA VALLEY......Page 354
SONOMA VALLEY......Page 393
FAST FACTS: SAN FRANCISCO......Page 416
INDEX......Page 422