Guidebook for San Francisco
Food Scene
Fable
Modern American Cuisine
Orphan Andy's Restaurant
A greasy spoon diner that's been around for decades.
Catch French bistro
Arguably the best seafood restaurant in the Castro.
When a a Chinese chef and a Beer afficionado marry, you get Mama Ji's. Delicious Chinese dim sum and entrees, with a great beer selection.
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Mama Ji's
When a a Chinese chef and a Beer afficionado marry, you get Mama Ji's. Delicious Chinese dim sum and entrees, with a great beer selection.
You haven't been to SF until you've enjoyed a scoop or three from locally made Bi-Rite Creamery. Grab your cone or cup and take a stroll around Dolores Park.
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Bi-Rite Creamery
You haven't been to SF until you've enjoyed a scoop or three from locally made Bi-Rite Creamery. Grab your cone or cup and take a stroll around Dolores Park.
Castro Coffee Company
Local coffee shop, a Castro Street institution.
Gay-friendly sports bar with excellent food. It's not often you can find a grilled ahi tuna burger at a sports bar.
Hi Tops San Francisco
Gay-friendly sports bar with excellent food. It's not often you can find a grilled ahi tuna burger at a sports bar.
Some of the most delicious baked goods in SF. Reviewed by The New York Times. Their cookbooks are on best sellers lists. Expect a bit of a wait to get in the door, but well worth it!
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Tartine Bakery
Some of the most delicious baked goods in SF. Reviewed by The New York Times. Their cookbooks are on best sellers lists. Expect a bit of a wait to get in the door, but well worth it!
A great spot for burgers, salads, cocktails, and people watching. Grab a drink at Harvey's and toast to Harvey Milk, a champion for gay rights and the unofficial "Mayor of Castro Street.
Pauline's Pizza
A great spot for burgers, salads, cocktails, and people watching. Grab a drink at Harvey's and toast to Harvey Milk, a champion for gay rights and the unofficial "Mayor of Castro Street.
Delicious seafood with a Pan-Asian flair. A great lunch spot when visiting Golden Gate Park.
Pacific Catch
Delicious seafood with a Pan-Asian flair. A great lunch spot when visiting Golden Gate Park.
Scoma's Restaurant
One of the best seafood and Italian restaurants in SF.
Great Italian & seafood restaurant with stunning views. If you go up to Muir Woods, Napa or Sonoma, this is a great spot for lunch or dinner.
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Scoma's of Sausalito
Great Italian & seafood restaurant with stunning views. If you go up to Muir Woods, Napa or Sonoma, this is a great spot for lunch or dinner.
A local spot best known for their incredible breads, but everything here is delicious. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We highly recommend the fried brussel sprouts, hangar steak, and the shrimp & grits.
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Outerlands
A local spot best known for their incredible breads, but everything here is delicious. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We highly recommend the fried brussel sprouts, hangar steak, and the shrimp & grits.
Starbelly
California comfort food, open for brunch, lunch or dinner.
Get your sugar fix here. Since it's the Castro, one of the options is to buy a phallic-inspired cookie.
Hot Cookie
Get your sugar fix here. Since it's the Castro, one of the options is to buy a phallic-inspired cookie.
Open for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. All of the omelettes are amazing, and you haven't had bacon until you've had their millionaire's bacon.
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Kitchen Story
Open for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. All of the omelettes are amazing, and you haven't had bacon until you've had their millionaire's bacon.
Great little spot in Cole Valley to visit after seeing Twin Peaks or before reaching Golden Gate Park. Petite French bistro. Great for brunch, lunch or dinner.
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Zazie
Great little spot in Cole Valley to visit after seeing Twin Peaks or before reaching Golden Gate Park. Petite French bistro. Great for brunch, lunch or dinner.
Poki Time
Great little spot near the Marina for a cost effective poke bowl.
Fior d'Italia
Classic Italian restaurant. The oldest Italian restaurant in San Francisco.
御食园 - 旧金山最正宗川菜馆
Delicious Szechuan Chinese Restaurant
Dandelion Chocolate
One of the best local chocolate shops in town.
Parks & Nature
Across the street, about one block away. Great place for a little stroll before dinner.
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Kite Hill
Across the street, about one block away. Great place for a little stroll before dinner.
beautiful park, hidden in Golden Gate Park. It's easy to miss if you're not looking for it.
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Blue Heron Lake
beautiful park, hidden in Golden Gate Park. It's easy to miss if you're not looking for it.
The bald hill, visible from our home. This park is a mile from our home and a great spot to see the Golden Gate Bridge, and take great photos of the SF skyline.
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科罗娜公园
The bald hill, visible from our home. This park is a mile from our home and a great spot to see the Golden Gate Bridge, and take great photos of the SF skyline.
Mission Dolores Park
旧金山要塞公园
Beautiful views of Golden Gate Bridge.
Arts & Culture
日本茶园
One of the most amazing tea gardens on the continent.
旧金山现代艺术博物馆
GLBT Historical Society Museum
Great place to get an understanding of our LGBT movement in SF.
Essentials
Whole Foods Market
Mollie Stone's Markets
Safeway
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's
FITNESS SF - Castro
Walgreens
24-hours pharmacy.
Sightseeing
Beautiful vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay, the SF city skyline, and much more!
Coit Tower
Beautiful vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay, the SF city skyline, and much more!
A great spot to take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge and the SF city skyline. Bike across the bridge or go by car.
Vista Point
A great spot to take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge and the SF city skyline. Bike across the bridge or go by car.
海事岬
This is the best view of the Golden Gate Bridge, in my humble opinion.
It's the largest rainbow flag in the country. You can't not want to take a picture in front of it! :-)
Pink Triangle Memorial
It's the largest rainbow flag in the country. You can't not want to take a picture in front of it! :-)
The Pemberton Steps are how locals get to the top of Twin Peaks every day. Too steep for a street, they built a stairwell instead.
According to Bonnie Wach at the SF Chronicle, "The Pemberton steps begin at the curve of Clayton Street right before you cross Corbett. Climb 20 feet up the brick stairway and you leave urban angst behind. Car noise fades into the leafy overgrowth, and by the time you reach the first cross street (Villa Terrace) you find yourself wondering if this hilly perch has always been here, or if it magically appears like Brigadoon whenever the planets align just right."
Pemberton Place
The Pemberton Steps are how locals get to the top of Twin Peaks every day. Too steep for a street, they built a stairwell instead.
According to Bonnie Wach at the SF Chronicle, "The Pemberton steps begin at the curve of Clayton Street right before you cross Corbett. Climb 20 feet up the brick stairway and you leave urban angst behind. Car noise fades into the leafy overgrowth, and by the time you reach the first cross street (Villa Terrace) you find yourself wondering if this hilly perch has always been here, or if it magically appears like Brigadoon whenever the planets align just right."
双子峰
Best view of SF!
Drinks & Nightlife
Neighborhood bar know for craft beer and craft cocktails with things you've never heard of before.
Blackbird
Neighborhood bar know for craft beer and craft cocktails with things you've never heard of before.
Just your neighborhood gay bar. A great place for happy hour drinks or later in the evening. Just don't come here expecting an impressive wine list or an award-winning cocktail.
Toad Hall
Just your neighborhood gay bar. A great place for happy hour drinks or later in the evening. Just don't come here expecting an impressive wine list or an award-winning cocktail.
The Cafe
The best nightclub in the Castro if you like to dance.
A great place for a glass of wine (or three!) and a charcuterie plate. Occasionally local musicians will perform live during happy hour.
Blush! Wine Bar
A great place for a glass of wine (or three!) and a charcuterie plate. Occasionally local musicians will perform live during happy hour.
One of the iconic gay nightclubs in the Castro. Grab a cocktail and head to the outdoor deck to people watch and take in beautiful views of the city.
Lookout
One of the iconic gay nightclubs in the Castro. Grab a cocktail and head to the outdoor deck to people watch and take in beautiful views of the city.
Beaux
2nd best nightclub for dancing.
A little piece of history.
"Twin Peaks Tavern, which first opened in 1935 but was purchased by Cunha and Forster in 1971, is believed to be the first gay bar in the nation to feature full-length, open plate glass windows that let its patrons look out, and more importantly, the public look in. The lesbian friends, known to most regulars as "the girls," opened the bar to the world at a time when many gays still feared losing their jobs or being socially ostracized if their sexual orientation was revealed. It has now survived for 40 years as one of the Castro district's most memorable and welcoming establishments." - SF Chronicle
Twin Peaks Tavern
A little piece of history.
"Twin Peaks Tavern, which first opened in 1935 but was purchased by Cunha and Forster in 1971, is believed to be the first gay bar in the nation to feature full-length, open plate glass windows that let its patrons look out, and more importantly, the public look in. The lesbian friends, known to most regulars as "the girls," opened the bar to the world at a time when many gays still feared losing their jobs or being socially ostracized if their sexual orientation was revealed. It has now survived for 40 years as one of the Castro district's most memorable and welcoming establishments." - SF Chronicle
Del Dotto Estate Winery & Caves
Great Napa winery.
Trefethen Family Vineyards
Great Napa winery
Clos Pegase Winery & Tasting Room
Great Napa winery.
Chandon
Great Napa winery.
Castello di Amorosa
Great Napa winery.
Amazing winery with great views of rolling vineyards. Best known for their complex pinot noirs and buttery chardonnays.
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La Crema
Amazing winery with great views of rolling vineyards. Best known for their complex pinot noirs and buttery chardonnays.
Fantastic Sonoma County winery with delicious pinot noirs and chardonnays. Do your tasting indoors or outside.
Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards
Fantastic Sonoma County winery with delicious pinot noirs and chardonnays. Do your tasting indoors or outside.
This is a terrific small production, family-owned winery where your tasting will feel much different than some of these larger corporate-run facilities. Great spot of pinot noirs and chardonnays.
Moshin Vineyards
This is a terrific small production, family-owned winery where your tasting will feel much different than some of these larger corporate-run facilities. Great spot of pinot noirs and chardonnays.
Williams Selyem Winery
Great Sonoma County winery. Reservations recommended.
OASIS
Drag Bar with great entertainment.
Shopping
Best clothing store in the Castro. It's a great place for casual fashion, swimwear, underwear, athletic footwear, and workout attire.
BODY Clothing
Best clothing store in the Castro. It's a great place for casual fashion, swimwear, underwear, athletic footwear, and workout attire.