42. San Francisco: City Series! first impressions, best iced vanilla latte review, and recommendations Wendy's Waffle Bar

Hellloooo, today I share all my thoughts on San Francisco! First impressions, misconceptions, and all of the cafe/restaurant/park reviews! See below for the full list, hope you enjoy :)

San Francisco 

COFFEE / BAKERIES 


Red Bay Coffee✔️ iced vanilla latte (10/10) -> ferry building 
Ritual Coffee✔️ iced oat milk sweet latte (10/10) -> Haight Ashbury
Duboce Park Cafe✔️ egg sammy and iced oat milk vanilla latte (10/10) -> Duboce Park
Blue Bottle✔️ sweet iced latte (8/10) -> Hayes Valley 
La Boulangerie✔️ iced vanilla latte (6/10) -> Hayes Valley
SightGlass✔️iced vanilla latte (5/10) -> Divisadero
Wooden Coffee House✔️iced vanilla latte with whole milk? (3/10) -> Cole Valley
The Mill✔️egg in a hole toast(7/10), earl grey olive oil cake (10/10), iced syrup latte (5/10) -> Divisadero
Cafe Reveille✔️ iced vanilla latte with whole milk (3/10) -> Duboce Triangle
Jane the Bakery✔️iced sweet latte, chocolate chip toffee cookie, banana bread, and turkey/caramelized onion sandwich, $30 (9/10) -> 

Jane on Larkin
Jane on Fillmore

Fifty/fifty✔️iced vanilla latte (8/10) -> Lone Mountain
Stable Cafe -> the mission 
As Quoted -> Presidio Heights 
Andy Town Coffee Roasters -> Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset
Thorough Bread -> Castro
Cinderella Bakery
Cafe Trieste
Paris Baguette
Kantine
Tartine

BAGELS / BREAKFAST  


Shlock’s Bagels & Lox✔️ iced chai tea and cream cheese salt bagel (9/10) -> Divisadero
The Laundromat✔️ salt bagel (10/10) -> Outer Richmond
Fiddle Fig, russian hill - breakfast sandwiches
Cracked and Battered -> Marina 

AÇAÍ


Bowl’d
Palmetto superfoods

SALADS 


original Joe’s (Dungeness crab Louie)

DRINKS (and tapas)


Zeitgeist✔️Beer bar in Mission
The saloon - live blues bar in north beach
Smuggler’s Cove - Tiki Bar just north of Mission
Phone Booth - dive bar in Mission
500 Club✔️dive bar in Mission
Arcana - natural wine bar with live music in Mission
NoPa✔️ gin & juice, lentil soup 
Phononbar✔️ summer summer summertime (8/10)
TrickDog✔️ scooby snack shot 
Lost Resort✔️
ABV
Red Window (live music every sat/sun 11-3) 
Little Red Window 
House of Shields 
Madrone’s (Motown Mondays!) 
Irvin street and 19th 
The View Lounge, for sunset, downtown
Arbor Patio, for wine, Hayes Valley 

SEAFOOD


Scoma’s - fancy and $$$
Hog Island Oyster Co. 
Hook Fish✔️ fish tacos and fish&chips (8/10)

MEXICAN 


Nopalito
Mission burritos✔️
Lolo✔️ Valencia in the mission (10/10)

ITALIAN 


Square Pie Guys
Original Joe’s
Tony’s Pizza
Casaro Osteria, Union street 
Flour and Water - special occasions 

JAPANESE


Nora✔️ blazing glory (6/10)
Tsunami✔️ papa San, volcano roll, spicy tuna (10/10)
Marfuku - ramen 
No Joe’s - Hayes valley, ramen 

THAI 


Mangrove Kitchen✔️chicken pad Thai 
Farmhouse ✔️ chicken pad Thai 

INDIAN 


Dancing Yak (Nepalese)

VIETNAMESE 


PPQ
Dragon Eats - bon mi

BURMESE


Burma Superstar 

DESSERTS


salt and straw✔️ Hayes Valley
Hot cookie✔️Castro
Bi-Rite Creamery✔️Alamo Square 
Swenson’s 
Smitten Ice Cream✔️ the Mission 

ACTIVITIES


Dolores Park - great for a view of the city skyline, lots of people watching, get a mission burrito while you’re there
Headlands Lookout - best view of the Golden Gate Bridge/city
Golden Gate Park - bigger than Central Park
The Mission - Mexican/hipstery neighborhood with great food and bars, near Dolores park. Mission street and Valencia street are both awesome
North Beach - Italian neighborhood, very picturesque also great food/drinks
Alamo Square Park - good view, painted ladies from Full House
Hike up twin peaks for a good view
Bernal heights hill also a good view 
Lands end is like SFs version of discovery park in Seattle
Bonfire on ocean beach