7milesbelow: if you go to san francisco

i love san francisco, but i don't think it's a particularly tourist friendly city. and if you are like me, who doesn't want to spend their entire visit with other tourist, you may need a little help to find the places where the locals go. i collected some of the places that i love in the city, click on the links and will take you to their site. have a great time in san francisco, but never in "frisco"!

SF MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

Pier 24
De Young
Asian Art Museum
SF MOMA
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Yerba Buena
Museum of Craft and Folk Art

SF GUIDES

City Guides
Carried Away
SF Architecture Walking Tour
Gourmet Walks

ONLINE GUIDES

Design Sponge SF guide
San Francisco Travel
Not For Tourists
Table Hopper
SF Eater
Refinery 29
Lost in SF

SOME OF MY FAVORITE OUTDOOR SPOTS IN THE CITY

Presidio
Glen Canyon Park
Baker Beach
Fort Funston
Golden Gate Park Arboretum/Botanical Garden
Crissy Field

SOME OF MY FAVORITE SPOTS IN THE CITY

Andy Goldsworthy in the Presidio

Stairways of SF
Mission Murals

STORES (LOCALLY OWNED - mostly)

Arch Supplies
Bell Jar
Bellocchio
Candystore Collective
Carte Blanche
City Lights Books
Chronicle Books
Collage
Curiousity Shoppe
Detox Market
Dish
General Store
Gravel & Gold
Green Apple Bookstore
Flax Art
Flight 001
Flora Grubb
Hollow
Kinokuniya Book Store
Le Labo
Mill Mercantile

Nest
Paper Source
Park Life
Paxton Gate
Peace Industry
Perch
Photobooth
Prarie Collective
Press Works on Paper

Rare Device
Reliquiary
Timeless Treasures
The Mission Statement

SHOPPING STREETS

Valencia St (between Duboce and 28th)
24th St (In Noe Valley and in the Mission)
Haight St
Hayes St (btwn Franklin & Fillmore)
Union St (btwn Franklin & Divisadero)
Chestnut St (btwn Divisadero & Fillmore)
Polk St (btwn Broadway & Filbert)
Fillmore St (btwn Geary & Broadway)
Divisadero St (between Haight and Turk)
Sacramento St (btwn Baker & Spruce)
Union Square
Grant Ave (North Beach)

COFFEE

Blue Bottle
Four Barrel
Hollow
Ritual
Sight glass
Sugarlump

TEA HOUSES

Japanese Tea Garden
Love Joy Tea Room
Taste

SWEETS