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This is also trueQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Then you should know there’s not any homeless camps there. You sound more like a soma tech douche than someone that lives in the hoodQuote:
Originally Posted by heckacali
If you get out to Golden Gate Park, check out the observation deck at the de Young Museum. Free to go up there. Cool views of the city.
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SF is one of the more gorgeous locations for a city in the world, with a ton of great food from cheapish eats to 3* Michelin. What’s fancy? You could eat in Chinatown but there’s better food and more variety of Chinese cuisines in the burbs. But it’ll probably be in a strip mall. Good Indian subcontinent food too, etc. If you don’t like museums, or sports, most of the the trad touristy shit is way past it’s prime fishermanshwarf/the haight/north beach/union square, blech, you aren’t missing anything but there’s not lots else. Rent a car and drive north, hike in redwoods, eat oysters at hog island?
Can you list a few you like?Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
There are plenty of real deal places in the Sunset and Clement. Just look for a place that’s crowded. Nothing wrong w old chinatown, there’s still plenty legit places along w the more touristy trap ones
I walked across the Golden Gate about 10 days ago, and there were strong winds and heavy fog. The fog was too thick to see the top of the towers. It was an okay walk, but the views from the presidio were better. I wouldn't bother unless it's clear when you're there.
Those aren't suburbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Dinner at Tadich Grill. https://tadichgrillsf.com/
Sit at the bar. Get the cioppino.
Note - they don’t take reservations (at least they didn’t when I was last there)
October - should be nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
That’s my point. Suburb Chinese definitely isn’t better than the restaurants in the sunset or on clement /Richmond.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Lol, fuck off you insecure turd who’s being the cool bro while pitching shit like city lights that sucked in the 1990s unless you were addicted to boomer fartsQuote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
all Chinese food ain’t the same and everything ain’t in sf anymore. Should you rent a car and go to Oakland or Cupertino or millbrae or wherever? Probably not. Anyways, back to whatever this is.
I lived in East Bay, Sonoma, and Lake Tahoe for a total of about six years. I also lived in Bozeman intertwined in that decade. Lots of driving during that time. I was always stoked when I got to go to the city, mainly because the drive in and out of SF was glorious.
I’d rent a car and go south one day for beaches, and north the next for wine country, hitting every food truck I saw along the way. And enjoying a rad dinner in the city each night.
Sunrise and sunset drives in CA are a genre of their own. That said— don’t get caught driving east during sunrise or west during sunset.
Things I miss from CA that I replicate in JP— breakfast restaurants, beer garden burgers, sour dough, Mexican food, clam chowder.
Can’t replicate Salt Water Taffy, though. Leave room in your suitcase to take a bunch of that home with you.
Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, Pacifica, Monterey, Marin, Mendocino are all cool little towns. Or— were 25 years ago. Healdsburg has a very sweet spot in my heart, too.
JesusQuote:
Originally Posted by RootSkier
Hercules
Christ
2 dinners, 2.5 days. Please spend all that time in a rental car driving around in traffic.
Touché
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Have you considered a short trip to Tahoe or Yosemite?
A buddy of mine has recommended Wojia to me but I haven't been. It's in Albany on San Pablo.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
In SF, we've been going to Brandy Ho's since the 80s.
More recently I've been to both The Chili House & Spices, both on Clement, and both go way overboard on the amount of chilis they use, which if you like that sorta thing (I do), are worth a trip.
Earlier this year my sister took me to WenChang Dumpling Restaurant on Balboa and it was outstanding! We didn't even have any dumplings, I'd definitely go back there!
City books is great, I love the selection there and the beatnik history. i recommend it to anyone who likes that shit. eat my ass you little man.Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
Thanks.. I'll be back next week and will try one of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by powpig
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
Recreate the Bullitt car chase, obviously.
5th generation Californian here, e clampus vitus baby, life long bay area resident. Yank Sing for Sunday brunch get there before noon. Steamed pork buns rock.
those small towns suck shit and sal water taffy is the greatest scam of all timeQuote:
Originally Posted by gaijin
I got nothing against eating ass but since kink sold the armory where should we meet? The Kathi roll place is apparently still in the Castro but you seem a bit constrainedQuote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
^^^Yer cracking me up.
The old school touristy places are actually pretty cool in San Francisco, because most of them have lasted for a reason, and the settings can be incredible. Yank Sing for dim sum, The Buena Vista for Irish coffee, Firenze for pasta in North Beach, Tadich, Beach House etc.
Clamper? You got all your teeth?Quote:
Originally Posted by Redsmurfer
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Dunfree throwing down w an ass eat off challenge in SF! FKNA.
I have to say, that was not on my bingo card.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
Salt water taffy is no scam. It’s right up there with starburst and jolly ranchers for top three American candies of all time.Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
Unrelated are Queen Anne chocolate covered cherries, Arcor strawberry bon bons, and Tootsie’s caramel apple pops.
Do you even California, bro?
Taffy, Sour Dough, and Burritos are like the top three things CA has ever delivered. Maybe I should include IPA, or the entire genre of craft beer… derived from kids who were bored of their parent’s wineries.
On that note— Bear Republic Brewery Racer 5 IPA = the best beer out of California. And Ravens Wood Zinfandel is the best wine.
I don’t know about the best weed. Back in the day it was Humbolt. But since you guys went legal and reinvented the entire industry— I should probably also add marijuana as one of CA’s greatest contributions to society.
But those all suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by gaijin
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https://cdn.britannica.com/65/189765...ater-taffy.jpg
yeah, no. You may have eaten saltwater taffy in California but saltwater taffy ain’t from California. Atlantic City, New Jersey is the town you’re thinking of. Those fuckers will fight you about it too.
according to Encyclopaedia Britannica;
“salt water taffy, a type of taffy (a chewy and soft candy) that originated in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. The recipe for salt water taffy does not actually include saltwater from the ocean, though it does usually call for salt and water, as well as sugar, corn syrup, butter, cornstarch, flavoring, and coloring. After the mixture is cooked and then cooled, it is pulled and stretched in order to aerate the candy and make it softer. The sweet is said to have received its name after a boardwalk candy shop flooded with water from the Atlantic Ocean in 1883, soaking all the taffy in salty seawater. Reportedly, the shop owner joked with a customer that all he had was salt water taffy, and the name stuck.”
fact.
Well… CA introduced it to me. So… there.
fact.
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Originally Posted by skaredshtles
A lotta salt in this thread but it ain't the taffy
i ate it on chincoteague on my way to assoteague you’ve got me mistyQuote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
theres also a weird thing on this board of people who grew up in tourist towns (or spent time there pre adult hood) and people (many here) who moved there post majority
I'll be there next Thursday and free before 1pm that day, you are the local right, tell me where to meet. FYi there is a good chance you live in the Midwest and my trip will be cancelled, but that's out of my control and I'll be in SF soon enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by dunfree
My relative invented Irish Coffee, here he is serving it up to some girl named marylinQuote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
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noted, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redsmurfer
The excitement builds. Who will overwhelm the other with mind-blowing ass eating?
There can only be one. The stage is set. The trg awaits w baited ass.
my cocks absolutely average in length, but I’m sure you, with a family history of marketing the fuck out of sub mediocre shit have a longer won that all the women you pay tell you is the best you’ve ever had. As for the Midwest? It blows, and Utah is where the rancid Jello shit ass recipes go to die.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Anyways, Union Square is a decent place to stay and eat and City Lights and the bar next to it is a fun visit. Just walking around the streets and hills is fun for me, I don't ever know where I'm going or should go, I probably miss shit that way.
If it's around Columbus Day Weekend, the Navy will be there. The Blue Angles. All kinds of air show excitement.
Anyway, be prepared for expensive.