25 must-do spots from the bridge to the Mission. This free City Pack from Whosly collects our favorite San Francisco spots — restaurants, bars, cafés, museums, parks, and things to do — each one mapped and ready to turn into a plan. Save the ones you love, then text a link and see who's in.
Eighteen stools, no tables, and the shutters come down mid-afternoon. Crab back, a half dozen oysters and an Anchor Steam, same as a century ago.
Carved tableside off a silver zeppelin cart, with a spinning salad and Yorkshire pudding. A San Francisco rite since 1949 — book weeks ahead.
The brick-oven chicken for two over bread salad takes an hour to arrive and is worth the wait. Sit upstairs by the wedge of window.
California's oldest restaurant, running since the Gold Rush. Take a stool at the counter and order the cioppino or the pan-fried sand dabs.
Irish coffee arrived in America at this bar in 1952, and they still line up glasses by the dozen to make it. The cable car turnaround is out front.
The morning bun and the dark, blistered country loaf that reset American baking. The line down Guerrero is long and moves faster than it looks.
Salted caramel and honey lavender, made two blocks from Dolores Park — which is exactly where the cone is supposed to end up.
A four-story rainforest dome, a planetarium and an aquarium under one living roof. The albino alligator in the swamp has his own fan club.
American, African and Oceanic collections in a copper-clad box that's slowly turning green. The observation tower at the top is free to ride.
Seven floors deep, with a sculpture terrace, a huge living wall of native plants, and the Fisher collection anchoring the middle floors. Give it a half day.
Six hundred exhibits built to be poked, spun and argued with, spread down a pier. Thursday's After Dark is adults-only with a bar.
Free, and it's the working powerhouse — the giant winding wheels churning below the walkway are what pull every car in the city.
Bigger than Central Park, with a bison paddock, a Dutch windmill and car-free stretches that belong to bikes and skaters on weekends.
Cypress-lined bluffs above the Golden Gate, with shipwrecks visible at low tide and the Sutro Baths ruins right at the trailhead.
Fourteen acres of new parkland laid over the freeway tunnels — picnic meadows, food trucks, and the bridge lined up dead ahead.
The hilltop lawn that frames the row of Painted Ladies against the downtown skyline. The postcard, in person, usually with a picnic.
Walk out past the first tower and the whole bay opens up behind you. Fog optional, wind guaranteed — bring a layer even in July.
The cellhouse audio tour is narrated by the men who were locked in it, and it lands harder than any exhibit. Ferry tickets sell out weeks ahead — book before you land.
Oysters, bread, coffee and cheese under the 1898 clock tower, with the farmers market spilling onto the plaza on Saturday mornings.
Depression-era frescoes wrap the lobby for free. Climb the Filbert Steps through the gardens and the wild parrots instead of driving up.
Eight hairpin turns down one brick-paved block of hydrangeas. Take the stairs on either side — the view back down is the photo.
The last structure standing from the 1915 world's fair, mirrored in its own lagoon. Swans, weeping columns, and a lot of wedding photographers.
Right field hangs over the bay, so splash-hit home runs get fished out by kayakers. Garlic fries and a walk on the waterfront promenade are the ritual.
Ferlinghetti's Beat headquarters since 1953, and still a working bookstore rather than a shrine. The poetry room upstairs is the heart of it.
A one-alley operation where cookies are folded by hand off a hot press, seconds after they come out flat. Buy a bag of the unfolded ones.
4 curated guides, one per cuisine — 20 hand-picked spots each, plus the city's best cocktail bars. Download a pack and every spot drops onto your map, ready to turn into a plan with friends.
The city's best cocktail bars — tiki temples to Barbary Coast saloons.
Great American spots — Michelin tasting menus to counter classics.
Great Italian spots — North Beach red sauce to hand-made pasta.
Great Asian spots — dim sum, omakase, Thai and more.
Great Mexican spots — Mission taquerías to modern tasting menus.
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