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San Francisco’s Winter Fancy Food Show

February 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

Every January, San Francisco wakes up from its post-holiday sluggishness and hosts the Specialty Food Association’s Winter Fancy Food Show. This is an industry-only affair in which more than one thousand purveyors of packaged foods display more than 80,000 specialty foods and beverages. That’s right; more than 80,000; everything from chips and dips to olives and […]

Filed Under: Dining, Events, Featured-City, Food & Wine, San Francisco, SF-Learning, Wine Events

A Weekend of Sex, Bondage and Other Assorted Debauchery

November 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

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Folsom Street Festival weekend is always an interesting time in San Francisco. This weekend, we doubled our sexual voyeuristic fun by coupling a visit to the festival with a tour of the San Francisco Armory, which is now the headquarters for San Francisco’s X-rated entertainment business. The Folsom Street Fair, for those who don’t know […]

Filed Under: Cities, San Francisco, SF-Learning Tagged With: San Francisco, street fair

Catching Up with San Francisco Museums – Summer 2014

August 27, 2014 Leave a Comment

One of the few downsides of regular travel is that it often forces you to miss or at least postpone taking advantage of things in your home city. And since so much is always happening in San Francisco, there is a lot to miss. Fortunately, our summer trips were outside of theater season, which meant […]

Filed Under: Art, Nature & Hiking, San Francisco, SF-Art, SF-Learning, SF-Nature/Hiking Tagged With: art, museums, nature, San Francisco

An Evening with the Kiwi America’s Cup Contenders–Complements of AIWF

September 2, 2013 Leave a Comment

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Living in San Francisco, we’re surrounded by everything America’s Cup. Every morning’s newspaper has the schedule of forthcoming activities and the latest controversy, America’s Cup Park is crammed with sailing attractions during the day and concerts in the evenings. The bay, meanwhile, is filled with AC45 and the giant AC72 ships practicing for their competitions. […]

Filed Under: Cities, Events, Featured-Trips, SF-Dining, SF-Learning Tagged With: America's Cup, San Francisco

San Francisco’s New and Improved Embarcadero

August 11, 2013 Leave a Comment

The Embarcadero, between the Ferry Building and Pier 39, used to be something of a wasteland occupied by underutilized Piers and a few long-standing restaurants, such as Waterfront and Butterfly. Now, with the opening of the Exploratorium and the America’s Cup Village, it has emerged, at least through September, as one of the …

Filed Under: Dining, SF-Dining, SF-Learning, Sightseeing Tagged With: museums, restaurants, San Francisco

Just Another San Francisco Weekend: Wine, Cheese and Food, with Art, Flowers and History Thrown In

January 25, 2017 Leave a Comment

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We love San Francisco. There’s always something to do. In fact, there is often so much to do that you have to choose among a number of attractive options. The option: squeeze them all into a weekend. It’s a lot of work, but this weekend, we managed to do it: Friday We spend the morning […]

Filed Under: Art, Cities, Dining, Featured-City, Food & Wine, SF-Art, SF-Dining, SF-Learning, SF-Wine/Wineries, Sightseeing, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: art, Artisan Cheese Festival, Asian Art Museum, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, Wine events

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