San Francisco and what to do in it

M White OTM about Noe Valley.

MILFs!!!

eh, Noe Valley is not my preferred flavor of MILFshake

eh, Noe Valley is not my preferred flavor of MILFshake

The ethnographic subtleties of SFs neighborhoods are very hard to parse from a distance, but this resonates. Thank you!

PS OMGWTFLOL you people really have a Zircon Place right off Diamond Street???

I don't hate Noe. It's got some good food and good shopping but I lived in Marin as an adolescent and Noe Valley's faults are similar to Marin's. It's full of white liberals with kids 'cause it's a pretty good place to be and do all that. Compared to living in the Marina, it's heaven.

^^^true. I don't hate it either and I go there on occasion for some specific things (Eliza's hot tubs usually followed by a visit to Streetlight Records).

I live in Hayes Valley and it's quite nice.

I would recommend the Western Addition or Lower Haight (or Hayes Valley) over all but the Mission on your list actually.

I live in the Lower Haight really close to NOPA and I love it.

Haha I forget that they call that area NOPA now. Yeah so I guess I am talking about NOPA more than the Western Addition. Either way that area's very nice. Good cheap restaurants abound, good bars, nice parks, close to grocery stores, central public transportation, etc. Lousing parking for the most part, but hey that's life. If you to park move to the Outer Richmond.

I have a garage. </raspberry>

I don't have a car </doesn't care>

My car is a glorified shopping cart anyhow. I put about 700 miles on it last year, most of them going to visit my grandmother near Yosemite.

I do sort of wish I had a glorified shopping cart actually, but it wouldn't really help since most of my shopping is farmer's market anyway. Still it helps when you want to buy bulk toilet paper and the like.

Exactly. Didn't I almost run you down once? I promise next time my aim will be better. ;)

NOPA? what the hell is that? north of the panhandle? I also have a glorified shopping cart - we should have a race to the store sometime

My car is a glorified shopping cart anyhow. I put about 700 miles on it last year

I am so looking forward to being able to say this. I'm currently good for no less than 1,000 miles a month.

My drive today, covering home>office>band practice>home (and let's see if this embed works...)

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LOL nope, let's try again...

My drive today, covering home>office>band practice>home.

69.2 mi – about 1 hour 42 mins
up to 2 hours 50 mins in traffic

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Click on my link ye mighty and despair.

"NOPA? what the hell is that? north of the panhandle?"

Yup.

"Exactly. Didn't I almost run you down once? I promise next time my aim will be better. ;)"

Did you? I don't remember that, but I may have been unaware of my impending demise.

Nopa the restaurant - Y/N/Maybe

remy, I don't think I'm going to make it, unfortunately

I've got mixed feelings about Nopa (the restaurant) generally (I've had memorable and less than memorable meals there) but it does get big thumbs up for being open so late.

NOPA food is above average, you just have to wait (and wait, and wait) to get it. Apps come out okay, entrees are like 15-30 minutes after the first course clears.

Why not go with a classic SF restaurant instead? NOPA is pretty far out of the way and not really that interesting to be honest. The only reason I think it's so popular is because it's the only non-ethnic restaurant OR option of that caliber in that zipcode (well, besides RNM?).

gabbneb, just go to Zuni. get the roast chicken, the caesar salad, and some oysters.

or go to PPQ way out in the avenues and get a whole crab.

shasta/jaxon, i missed u guys at boredoms.

i'd love to see you while i'm living in town (and everybody else -- hi michael!)

so would either of you be available for drinks/dinner this weekend or eaarly next week?

that's exactly what I want to do the next time I'm there, Steve. Little Star doesn't measure up for you, then?

dude, don't go to SF to get pizza. i mean, it's good for hood folx but i am trying to steer you towards something you can't get a zillion times better in NYC.

remy i am out of town til april.

i really enjoyed visiting burma superstar last week

ok, i just like to have all my espressos granita'd

ditto on the burma superstar....

if you're down with mindblowing pakistani/indian food, check lahore karahi in the tenderloin (o'farrell & leavenworth)...

pretty no frills service (if you can even call it that) but the food is the friggin megaton bomb and they play bollywood movies on the tv (and nusrat fateh ali khan if you get lucky)

i'm also really fond of fresca on fillmore in pac heights, its peruvian and their brunch is slammin.

i was also at the Boredoms show, but I was beyond baked and superfocused on the task at hand so all i saw were my smoking buddies. :) how could i have missed you guys?

if I attempt to go to burma superstar tomorrow around 7pm am I just asking for a four hour wait or something? we have a rare night away from the kid and no plans

Before you leave, call 415.350.7117 which is a non-listed number that allows you to put your name on the waiting list and when you show up at the door and get seated like you the mayor of the 'mond, your friends will be all <3.

i only have a wife and no friends, but maybe she will be all <3! i will make sure to credit you though.

I like Nopa but RNM is far better imho. I haven't been to Burma Superstar in ages. I should go back. Steve, have you heard of L'Ardoise?

I used to love love love Burma Superstar (seriously like fav restaurant in the city), but then I got horrible horrible horrible food poisoning from something there (seriously just near-hospitalized and shit) and haven't been back mostly cuz the taste of Samosa soup still haunts my dreams (but I have been to the new Little Burma or whatever restaurant down the street--it was still awesome.)

battags, steve shasta & I was hanging out w/yr smoking buddies. i got there right when tim came out of a smoke filled bathroom coughing his lungs out. he went from "guh, i don't like the boredoms, why'd you guys make me come" to "FUCK YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"

Is any SFer here on Meraki? Ad-supported P2P broadband, and they claim to have a lol hueg SF installation. I'm kinda curious whether it works.

waht

You put a little bug on the outside of yr pad and you get internet over distributed network. Self-healing, self-updating, etc. Only cost seems to be the bug.

http://sf.meraki.com/

See also http://sf.meraki.com/map/

Seems like massive coverage for my nbd (upper haight).

wau mine too

(western addition)

thanks for the burma superstar phone info, no problems getting a table (though there didn't look to be a huge line, maybe it's tapering down these days)...food was great, especially for the price

down the block from there is Q which i like for brunch they have FAT mamosa's.

If you can see Free the Net in yr list of wireless networks, then it seems you can join, and they might even send you a free repeater.

i wonder if it's accessible in the financial district at all, I need to be able to get access from outside of my office for extracurricular work...

Looks like there's some coverage near Union Square, but not much near Market + 2nd.

After reading more about this, it seems that there's no incentive to get a repeater at all. Access is wide-open for anyone who can get to the network. Also, bandwidth is 500kbit - 1mbit, not so great. Still, it seems like a cool idea and I'd put a repeater on my window if they sent me one.

It'd be ironic if the end result of this is SF-wide free internet, after Google, Earthlink, et al., pulled outta the deal after promising so much.