Get the karaage! Miso soup base! Pork is charred on top with a torch before placed on your homemade noodles with flour from Hokkaido!
SF Weekly’s Best Of 2012 Winner – Editorial Pick – Best of the New Izakayas Ask anyone who’s moved from Japan about San Francisco’s izakaya boom and they’ll roll their eyes, agreeing with you… Read more.
Don't fear the chicken tartare with quail egg. It sounds scary, but it's loaded with spices and chiles and scattered with radish sprouts. Read more.
A place with a modern take on classic libations, and a clientele that's a raucous mix of office workers letting loose and mixology aficionados. Try the Sazerac with locally distilled Old Potrero Rye. Read more.
With its overstuffed leather booths, decadently long bar and phones at every table, puts the intrigue and romance back into cocktailing. Read more.
Hit up the California Academy of Sciences on Thursday nights. They always have great live music, creative cocktails and there is always a diverse, hip crowd hanging out and enjoying the scenery. Read more.
NightLife at CAS is super popular. Get there early if you want to see the rain forest or planetarium, and buy your tickets in advance if you don’t want to wait in line outside in the fog. Read more.
A very quaint and small place in Potrero. The food is simple but amazing. Service has personality and flair. If you ever fancy getting out of the city without leaving the city limits. This is it!
Super7 has released hundreds of t-shirts & over 500 toys to date, and is considered one of the first places to capture and showcase emerging art talent before it explodes into the mainstream.
SF Weekly’s Best Of 2012 Winner – Editorial Pick- Best Source of Old School Star Wars Swag. Warning: This hive of scum and villainy is dangerous if you don’t know what you’re walking into. There... Read more.
Hotei’s curry is an age-old family recipe created by proprietor Eric Fujii’s grandmother. Read more.
The salted caramel is better than Bi-Rite! Watch them make your scoop as you wait..and be sure to get the cone! 75cents but totally worth it--tastes like a buttery fortune cookie :)
Bohemian bar next to City Lights Bookstore. Good place to see some of San Francisco's finest characters. -Laurine Wickett, Top Chef
This fantastic dive bar from another era caters to the tourists, but we come here for the atmosphere, the cheap prices (cash only) and the bartenders. Opens at 7am!
Herb Caen called the Gold Dust "last of the authentic night capperies." Tip a glass here in his honor. Read more.
Come at high tide or on a full moon, and you too might hear sounds of the Flying Dutchman trying to send messages to port.
Adults, leave your kids at home on the first Thursday of every month and take a date to After Dark, the Exploratorium's night exclusively for adults. There's a new theme every month and a cash bar! Read more.
At the Palace of Fine Arts, there's a secret listening exhibit inside one of the columns of the rotunda. SOUND COLUMN is a musical instrument whose resonating chamber is a 60-foot-high room.
Did you know that San Francisco has last permanently operating, manually operated cable car system in the world? Check out our Science in the City video to learn more about SF's cable cars! Read more.
