Stamp bar and grill San Carlos. Best food best everything. I ordered a chardonnay and the glass was…read moreiced who does that?? I will go back.

It has changed tremendously! There is a police station and Bart Station connected to the Tanforan…read moreShopping Mall, which has very few stores and eateries left and will be closing soon. I have seen many vagrants in the area. At the Marshall's, I have seen people shoplift right under cameras without a care. The downtown area has limited parking for the businesses and the meters run even on Sunday. I did not realize this and went for cheap eats at Ming's (very good restaurant), and was slapped with a $50 ticket. Beware folks.

I've been here before most of y'all were born. Oh, the things I've seen! Guess I like bad boys…read morecause I'm hopelessly in love with the Lower Haight. Well, the crack dealers have moved on, replaced by million dollar condos, & fancy pants establishments. Haight & Divisadero streets are alive with destination worthy restaurants, cafes, shops, bars, and great people watching. Nothing but locally owned businesses here, except for the beloved CVS. Bless its heart surviving corporate closures & unrelenting shoplifting. Now the goods are under lock & key. Anyway, I'm not leaving my blue bubble.

People from cleaner and ritzier 'hoods gasp when I say I live in the Lower Haight. "Is it safe?"…read morethey inquire. I just laugh with a sinister grin and say "I like it." As Brian M. said we've got a diverse selection of eats (mostly cheap) and drinks. Not only that but we're close to two lovely parks, home to many churches, not to mention two excellent cafes- Bean There and Cafe du Soleil. Public transportation couldn't be easier here, either. Is the LH for everyone? No. And thank god almighty for that. It has, however, proven an unexpectedly lovely place for me to be.

Market Street will always hold a special place in my heart; I remember walking here when about 30…read moreyears ago. It's definitely changed a lot in the past handful of years. I hope the City can figure out how to revive the area, bring safety back, and to reduce the issues with the unhoused. In the daytime, it's pretty much a ghost town. It never used to be that way. In the evenings, it's also fairly quiet, but there are more unhoused visible. Many shops and restaurants have closed; those that are still open, I wonder how they're surviving? When Westfield was Westfield, the shopping center used to bring foot traffic to that area of the street. I really hope that San Francisco can sort out its problems. While I still love the city, it's sad to see how it's declined. 2024: 94/100

Market Street is one of the main drags in San Francisco. Since the late 1990s, my experiences with…read moreand memories of this street primarily involve the stretch from 5th Street and the Powell Street BART station to the northeast ending at the Embarcadero and the Ferry Building. This stretch includes Union Square, the Financial District, and SoMa (South of Market). Unlike parts south, this stretch of Market feels relatively safe thanks in large part to lots of tourists, local office workers, and nicer, higher-end hotels, restaurants, and retail. 5th to the Embarcadero is a walkable stretch with lots to see and do in the aforementioned neighborhoods. That said, as a longtime regular visitor to San Francisco over the past two decades plus, I've noticed Market Street and the city as a whole aren't what they used to be. During our recent visit, walking up and down Market Street to get from our hotel to various places, I couldn't help but notice several vacant storefronts. Lots of retail for lease. Some parts looked like a ghost town. Market Street just had a different vibe and energy to it. It's not as "alive" as it used to be. And it appeared there were more homeless people too (or they're just more visible now). I noticed within the past year that Westfield had dropped the San Francisco Centre shopping mall from its portfolio: https://www.yelp.com/biz/westfield-san-francisco-centre-san-francisco-3 Here's a San Francisco Chronicle article about it from October 2023: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-westfield-mall-new-management-18417748.php Sad. The stretch of Market from the Castro to the Embarcadero is straight and tree-lined. You can see the Ferry Building's 245-foot clock tower from a distance. It's a nice view and one of my favorite things about walking on this street. Most of the stretches of Market south of the Tenderloin, such as around the Civic Center / UN Plaza BART station, X (formerly Twitter) headquarters, and southwest down into the Castro and beyond, I've experienced mainly from cars. When you get into this part of Market, the elevation increases and there are some scenic city views. At its southwest end, Market Street turns into Portola Drive. This happens in the Twin Peaks area. There are great views of the city from Twin Peaks at a place called Christmas Tree Point. You can drive and park there. You can also park and walk to nearby Noe Peak. From these vistas, you can see Market Street run all the way up to the Bay. It's neat and I recommend it.

Great neighborhood that has gone through some major ups and downs over the past 30+ years. From a…read moreworking class, family oriented community to a hot bed of gang crime and drugs in the 80's, to dot com annexation to current day luxury loft gentrification, this neighborhood more than any other in SF has become the home of the activist and the yuppie, the secretary and the executive, the native and the transplant, the hipster and the socialite, gay and straight families, Latino, Asian, white, middle eastern. A venerable cross section of San Francisco. You have businesses that have been here for over 40 years and for under 40 days. I love my hood..more to come......

I've lived in this neighborhood for 12 years and have seen a variety of transitions and feel it's…read moreheld its personality and strengths. It is starting to feel a bit like Valencia Street circa 1992 or so but still not quite to being a copy of it. I've started seeing the urban safari vehicle talking folks to Balmy Alley which is not a good sign, but visitors are always welcome. It still has the best mix of people in town in my opinion.

Atherton is so snooty that when you pass through it on El Camino Real you don't really know you're…read morepassing through it because there are 8 foot high fences the entire way. You have to get off ofthe El Camino Real and Middlefield thoroughfares to see any actual houses, and still - good luck, because they're behind more fences or down a driveway removed from the road. Except for some retail in the slightly sketch North Oaks neighborhood (where the -gasp- apartments are), and a Celia's on El Camino Real, don't come here expecting to shop in the rich part of town. That'd be Los Gatos.

You know you've left the south end of Redwood City and entered Atherton because the taquerias,…read moretiendas and cerveza billboards are abruptly replaced by bike paths and gated homes and communities all bordered by huge trees and tall, verdant hedges. Also, Avenida de las Pulgas temporarily changes its name to simply "Avenida". I guess Atherton residents are too uptight to find any humor in such an eccentrically named street. So far as I know, Atherton doesn't have ANY restaurants. It doesn't seem to have much of anything besides large second (or third) homes for high tech/dotcom tycoons. It is a nice place to ride a bicycle, though.

The Marina encompasses a lot of tony shops, restaurants & beautiful waterfront. Stroll along Crissy…read moreField to get a stunning view of Golden Gate Bridge & buff young men working out on The Green. I love checking out the OCD landscaped trees & marveling at the cleanliness & unique architecture. If you are a blonde woman who wears a ponytail & Lululemon, while you hold your Starbucks cup in one hand, cell phone in another, you are home. Bonus points for a cute small dog. The place feels pretty safe, so add this location to your scared visiting relatives tour guide. A big however, if you're looking to relocate, the district was literally built on sand with a shallow water table. All this explains why the Marina was heavily impacted by the 1989 quake. Many buildings collapsed because the first floors were built on stilts with parking underneath. During "flood season", cars parked along Marina Bld have water covering their wheels. But back to happy thoughts. It's real pretty here.

This is a very nice neighborhood in SF!!…read more Lively, active, and bustling day or night! Lots of local landmarks here including The Palace of Fine Arts, the Wave Organ, Fort Mason, Chrissy Field, and the Yoda Fountain in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio along with, of course, the Golden Gate Bridge!! There are all kinds of places to eat along Chestnut Street, The Marina Green is a great place to hang out, exercise, bike, or catch some bay views. There is plenty of parking there also. Fort Mason has all kinds of food trucks there. I usually just park at the Marina Green and walk everywhere. It's almost always windy or breezy here, but on sunny days, this is a great area in the city!!!

Like all pockets of San Francisco, Bernal Heights has its own personality. To live here you need…read moresome serious lung power to navigate the steep streets. Cortland Ave is the main drag. I've lived in the city long enough to see a gradual transition from funky stomping grounds to dare I say, a touch of upscale. Just a touch. Good lord, there's an Epicurean Trader! And a branch of Therapy store. Lots of parklets outside lots of restaurants. Somehow, you still get a small town vibe. I believe the city's last remaining lesbian bar, Wild Side West, is going strong. My theory is that around the 70s when the Castro was booming for gay men, gay women were priced out & discovered Bernal Heights. But I digress. BH has a school, a church, a library, art gallery, bicycle shop, Good Life Grocery, community center, lefty street art, families, nanny's pushing strollers, and dogs. Lots of dogs. The area is remarkably beautiful with Bernal Heights Hill towering overhead from the north, views of the bay peaking out, rows of houses snaking up & down hills, easy access to hwy 280, 101, & Lowes. I lost count of the graffiti covered trucks parked on the eastern slope of Cortland. Destination worthy neighborhood.

(this is still about the neighborhood called Bernal Heights)…read morepretty sure the first time i came was by accident. #twhs coincidentally visited again over a year later and found this has gotta be one of my fave middle of nowhere areas. slightly twilight zoneish how every block of cortland has a nonchain grocery, a church, or both. but it's also lined head to toe with a ton of restaurants that i've had bookmarked forever & never realized they're all out here together. whoa.

I want to write about moderately good impressions of Bostonian classmates with distinctive accents…read moreand their shaken-down girlfriends, and plentiful sokh as well as other hidden delectables and gardens and garden boxes and run-down neighborhoods that remind me of non-run-down neighborhoods back when they were more run down. And Joe. And proud old men and this loving community that mourns them and their senseless deaths with renamed streets. And the Kaiser hospital, which I really don't like and try to avoid even though it's much closer to me than the brand-spanking-new one in Mission Bay. But mostly paper streets and walkway streets and stair streets and exotically named streets all laid out in a surprisingly confusing grid, but I solved the puzzle and cracked the case, and I know how to pop out right by Blood Centers of the Pacific, but it closed! And that has made me sad for years even though I hadn't donated blood there since 2010, not long before I had my appendix removed. I forgot about the former forlorn Walgreens (RIP, really?) and its promising but surprisingly dangerous little parking lot. And pimple parking even before the neighborhood parking permit went into effect in 2015. Has it really been ten years? There's a straight-up red or black '80s toilet in an apartment here. I know because I saw photos of it when we were looking for a new place to live after the fire. I didn't think I'd live in Anza Vista then, nor do I now. But that toilet? Not quite chef's kiss, but it was amazing in a way I can't explain. And I would gladly write letters to my uncle and my childhood friend's parents, but they wouldn't understand. It has a view of more than Anza Street, which ironically starts right outside the neighborhood's borders. (Anza begins where O'Farrell ends.) Be sure to visit the Orthodox church and St. Joseph's Avenue. It goes all the way through to Geary!

In the way back machine in the early 2000s, my co-worker moved to a new apartment with two of his…read morefriends and no one could place his address or recognize his neighborhood. "What's Anza Vista?" we probed with a bit of a Mean Girls sneer. Now keep in mind, we sounded haughty while we ourselves lived in a slightly crappy neighborhood known for providing morning crack deals to some of its denizens and 40-caliber nightly entertainment. It's now Hayes Valley. So it was known as "Anza Vista Heights" (and "Divisadero Depths"). Anza Vista is still a little tattered, sitting right above busy workhorse boulevards of Geary and Divisadero yet boasting real estate as expensive as any around town. Most of Anza Vista has rickety '60s architecture but knockout skyline views.