Frommer's San Francisco 2011 (Frommer's Complete)

Frommer's San Francisco 2011 (Frommer's Complete)

Matthew R. Poole, Erika Lenkert, Bonnie Wach

Language: English

Pages: 436

ISBN: 2:00038085

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


* This book features hundreds of full-color photos to bring this cultural mecca to vivid life. * Thoroughly updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's San Francisco features everything you need to know to enjoy the sights and experiences that await you in the City by the Bay. * Our author, a longtime resident hits all the highlights, from Golden Gate Park to North Beach. He's checked out all the city's best hotels and restaurants in person, and will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget.  * Features a particularly thorough guide to dining in this American culinary mecca. Our honest, irreverent, and opinionated dining reviews encompass everything from the best dim sum to the freshest seafood, from affordable burrito joints and Vietnamese restaurants to trendy bistros opened by California's hottest chefs to fresh food markets for noshing. * Includes side trips to Berkeley, Sausalito, Muir Woods, Point Reyes, and more. There's also a detailed chapter on the nearby Wine Country, with the best wineries, inns, spas, and gourmet shopping, and the most decadent restaurants in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. * Includes a full-color foldout map.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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favorites. Hotel Del Sol (p. 119) It’s colorful enough to represent a Crayola selection, but tots are more likely to be impressed by the “Kids are VIPs” program that includes a lending library, toys and videos, evening cookies and milk, and accoutrements for the heated pool (think sunglasses, visors, beach balls). Parental perks include access to a bonded babysitting service and three baby-proofed rooms and family suite (three adjoining rooms). Hotel Metropolis (p. 97) The lobby walls at this

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tad limited, but really, why would you need anything more than butternut squash fondant with brown-butter ice-cream and caramelized honey? face San Francisco has always been woefully lacking in the alfresco dining department, which may or may not have something to do with the arctic summer fog. But Belden Place, an adorable little brick alley in the heart of the Financial District, defies that convention. A skinny alley open only to foot traffic, it’s become a little bit of Paris just off Pine

roomy, spotless restaurant is so obscurely located on the second floor of a business complex that it must rely almost exclusively on repeat and word-of-mouth clientele; but the word must be spreading, because it’s usually packed. Unlike most other restaurants in Chinatown, dim sum is ordered via a menu, which isn’t as fun but guarantees freshness (the steaming baskets of shrimp and scallop dumplings are excellent). Prices are slightly higher than average, but most definitely worth the extra

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