San Francisco and what to do in it

also, Sunset Magazine... :-D

i liked moby dick! but i didn't use the restroom there

also, Sunset Magazine... :-D

I know! When was the last time you even opened Sunset?

April 26th

http://www.sfbeerfest.com/

Sample over 300 incredible beers from some of the best craft brewers in the world. Taste a delicious variety of offerings from some of San Francisco’s best restaurants.

$60 admission includes unlimited beer tastings
and noshing.

Patrons must be 21 or over. ID checked at the door.

yay!

anything going on this weekend???

dancing/shows

so say I want to ride Muni over a day or two. do I understand right that my best options are:

a) cash, i.e. carry lots of quarters around (are bills accepted on buses?)
b) buy a 10-ride token coupon booklet at a muni vendor?

where would be the closest vendor to market and embarcadero?

i think i figured it out

Bills are accepted. They take pennies, so bring tons of them. If it is for more than two days, maybe look into getting a weekly pass, they are around 15 bucks I think and you can access Muni metro easier. If you use one of the tourist ones, you have to go to the gates with the attendants.

i bought my muni pass at HO HO SMOKE SHOP on geary and kearny (i deffo know it was geary but unclear on whether it was kearny)

and the weekly pass was 15 bucks and i rode the bus like 3-4 times a day so it was worth it (i was in town for 5 days)

gabs, if you're up here you better hang w. me

does anyone know if Hercules and Love Affair is playing live @ Mezzanine on april 11th? it's prolly a dj set but i can't find info. thanks buddies.

yes

HAI GUISE thank u for this thread - I'm moving up in six weeks or so and this is definitely helping to ease the trauma of leaving my 13-year life in LA.

Cosmo - movie night!

Chaki - drink and smoke!

M White - ascots and absinthe?

I don't really know who-all else is up there yet...

rogermexico, where are you moving?

I don't know yet!

I've been advised by a few who know me to look in the Mission first, with Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights, Hayes Valley and Noe Valley worth looks as well. Everything is of course priced 10% above what I'd like it to be...

From what I gather from the people I know who are looking, the real-estate downturn appears to have fed the rental market.

I have friends in all those 'hoods. Do you know where you'll be working?

Do you know where you'll be working?

Not exactly... it's a startup so it'll be moving a few times by the end of the year. Probably ending up in the tech ghetto eventually.

But the CEO lives in the Mission, and it's rare for an HQ to be placed too far from the CEO's home address.

Mission or Noe Valley or Bernal Heights seem best, then. My best friend lives in Noe Valley. It's a little too cluttered with stroller pushing, stuff-white-people-like types for my taste, but if I found the right place, I wouldn't turn my nose up at it. Bernal is cool but a tad residential to me but getting around isn't too hard and I think the parking out there is slightly less insane than in the Mission. I really like not having to drive in SF - I'm well placed for buses and walking.

I'm in the Mission, hit me up yo. M White OTM about Noe Valley.

We bought a house about 5 minutes and $300,000 away from our old apartment in Noe Valley out in Mission Terrace.

That is one dangling-ass modifier - sorry.

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?