SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts In SF Summery weather starting to get you in the mood for something icy and delicious? Perhaps you're vegan-ish or you're just trying to stick to a swimsuit diet, and you need some ideas for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 20 Best French Fries In San Francisco French fries are a near ubiquitous item on SF restaurant menus in all but the most high-end, Michelin-starred establishments and even newly Michelin starred AL's Place has their own unique and delicious version,
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Public Art and Street Art Works in San Francisco San Francisco's vibrant street and public art scene draws tourists from around the world. Murals, sculptures, and hidden gems abound, and there are numerous paid tour offerings that promise to show you the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Gay Bars In San Francisco For Every Occasion In honor of Pride Week, SFist brings you this comprehensive guide to San Francisco's gay bar scene, tailored to each of your potential needs on any given night of the week. Sometimes you
Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best Hikes: East & North Bay Edition Hiking weather is here, and hikes to our east and north where the weather can be way more summer-like in the summertime are a very good idea on weekends to escape the gloom
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Swimming Pools In San Francisco For those who love swimming, you ought to know that this city has a bunch of swell indoor and outdoor pools, both public and private, that you should probably check out. For the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get A Good Doughnut In SF Though we try at SFist to make a point of not recognizing the National ___ Days that were invented by trade groups and publicists to get the media to cover their products, but I'm
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Beaches In The Bay Area, Nude And Otherwise This weekend, at least in some parts of the Bay Area, is going to be a scorcher and hopefully it won't be the last of the season, because we all know how summer
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Bike Rides In The Bay Area Among the Bay Area's many, many charms is the diversity of amazing bicycle rides all within a short distance of wherever you happen to be. From urban rides through city parks, to grueling
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Flower And Plant Shops In San Francisco You need to get some birthday flowers for someone, or bring a dinner party host a little something that isn't wine, but you don't know where to start and/or you're not sure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Outdoor Bars: East & North Bay Edition Just a couple weeks ago we brought you an updated list of the best outdoor and patio bars in San Francisco, and now it's time to give some similar attention to al fresco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Breakfast Sandwiches in SF The breakfast sandwich is, in its best form, the platonic ideal of a morning meal a filling and deeply satisfying indulgence that is the polar opposite of a quinoa bowl. Often there is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Coolest Outdoor And Patio Bars In SF Hey, guys. It's spring! And while that can mean wind and occasional sprinkles, it can also mean fine, balmy, fog-free days and evenings that are made for outdoor drinking and eating. Below, our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's 4/20, y'all, and while hopefully most of you have gotten over the novelty of getting high and won't be joining the throngs at the unsanctioned 4/20 smoke-in on Hippie Hill
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Record Stores In SF & Oakland Hey guys remember Tower Records? And Discolandia? And Force of Habit? And Medium Rare Records? Yeah, me too. Music is now, on the bright side, easier to find and listen to than it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Beers From Local Bay Area Breweries There seems to be no bubble when it comes to the Bay Area Beer Boom, a movement that's put us in the elite class of a select few American metro areas with vibrant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) In The Bay Area There is some mad competition among dim sum parlors on both coasts for the claim of "best soup dumpling," because these multifaceted Shanghainese delicacies known as xiao long bao (or XLB) are far
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier parts of town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Bagels In The Bay Area, Ranked While many will contend that the very fact that Noah's has become a local institution is proof positive that San Franciscans are a provincial, taste-challenged bunch of heathens who wouldn't know a real
misc The Bay Area's 11 Best Standup Comedians The fertile funny grounds of the Bay Area have produced homegrown comedy legends like Robin Williams and Margaret Cho, and Gracie Allen, Phyllis Diller, and Carol Channing before them. But there are some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked goods) whilst
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 11 Best Local Gyms And Fitness Studios San Francisco is an athlete's paradise. Weather is usually suitable for a run or a hike, hills are themselves a training regimen, and yoga studios seem to be city-mandated every few blocks. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 9 Best Late-Night Happy Hours In San Francisco Who has time for traditional happy-hour hours anymore, amirite? The hours between 4 and 8 p.m. are, for many of us, filled with work, commuting, and gym-going, except on those occasions when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Piano Bars In San Francisco And Oakland San Francisco is a great town for live music, but when it comes to the grand tradition of the piano bar where amateurs and semi-pros get up and sing, we only really have
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Storytelling Events In The Bay Area Storytelling events where a mix of local luminaries and everyday raconteurs get onstage — and for some reason choose to relive their most embarrassing and awful real-life stories — have become increasingly common on both
