Where to eat, what to do, and where San Francisco locals actually go this weekend — starting in the Mission and Hayes Valley.
Food & DrinkEating well in the city for little has never been about a secret list; it is about knowing which neighborhood does which job best, and what the people who live there actually order.
Date NightThe neighborhood is small enough to cross on foot in ten minutes, which makes it one of the few places in the city where a date can wander without a plan and still land well.
Date NightForget the violin players. In this city, romance runs on fog, hills, and a corner table that catches the candlelight just right.
NeighborhoodsA ten-block neighborhood built out of a demolished freeway now holds an opera house, a symphony hall, a jazz club, and a park full of rotating art, and none of it requires a car to see.
A walk through Hayes Street turns up a neighborhood built out of a torn-down freeway, and still working out what came after it.
NeighborhoodsHayes Street runs on a clock that has nothing to do with happy hour, and the neighborhood's drinking scene has quietly built itself around it.
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