Time Out`s resident team helps you get the best out of California`s cosmopolitan cultural centre, giving you the inside track on local culture plus hundreds of independent venue reviews. As well as covering visitor essentials, Time Out San Francisco

Includes:: features on important news, trends & openings to help you get under the skin of the city. The San Francisco city guide
Includes:: full colour photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place; it

Includes:: handy pull-out San Francisco map; extensive area guides not only cover the sightseeing in San Francisco, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter; it also offers top 20 list of the must-see highlights. All San Francisco restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way San Francisco hotels independently reviewed.





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Lesser cities would have cracked under the strain of the dramatic bust that followed the dotcom boom. But, after a period of flux, San Francisco has taken its troubles in its stride. Certainly, the tourists keep coming, & well they might: it's the most European of the three big Californian cities, &, thanks chiefly to its compact size, easily the most visitor-friendly. Contained within its 47 square miles are some of the country's best restaurants, a cultural scene virtually unmatched for its sparkiness, a fascinating collection of architecture (both ancient & modern) & a raft of delightful & stylish hotels. San Francisco has some major national cultural attractions, but it's also a network of individual neighbourhoods. Most visitors spend their time in touristy, crowded & rather unappealing Fisherman's Wharf & Union Square. The Time Out guide takes you as well to where the locals go
- North Beach & the Mission, say
- or to only-in-San Francisco areas like the Castro & Haight-Ashbury.

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San Francisco expert Jerry Dunn guides readers around this beloved Californian city. Contemporary editorial features & experiential sidebars highlight every aspect of life in the city & its surrounds & offer a wide range of activities for the traveler to seek out. The guide also gives practical advice on planning tour trip & explains San Francisco today in the context of its rich history & culture, art, food & drink. ...

San Francisco in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer to the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of what you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, Wallpaper* has done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request), to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. With Wallpaper* City Guides you are going to sample the best the world has to offer. ...

San Francisco in the Michelin Red Guides series; hotel & restaurant guides that have an unparalleled reputation for reliability & consistency, making extensive use of keyed information to provide detailed & concise reviews. Guides are predominantly intended for the markets they are reviewing &, as such, are more often than not written in the native language (s) of their featured destination, that said, most foreign language guides do come with a range of English language introductory & explanatory information such as thorough details on how to use the guide & a description of its symbol classifications. The obvious exceptions to this structure are locations which already have English as their official language. Guides feature hundreds of hotels and/or restaurants & rate them according to the time honoured Michelin standards. Reviews are arranged alphabetically by location & introduce places & establishments, providing you with details of other relevant Michelin publications, situating the businesses & detailing facilities & services, as well as the all important price range. Establishment descriptions look at the atmosphere, décor/style, character & specialities of each hotel/restaurant, marking them with levels of comfort. Hotels & restaurants are regularly & anonymously visited by Michelin inspectors, who experience their stay at each concern as would an ordinary customer. Reader’s comments are an additional valuable source of information when independently compiling each guide. Guides aim to offer a selection of the best hotels & restaurants for comfort & price within each category. The criterion for each establishment’s classification is consistent, irrespective of location. Guides include additional information such as establishment locator maps, European telephone dialing codes, introductory vocabulary & distance charts. ...

Distinctively San Francisco in a series of City Map/ Guides from Herb Lester Associates with 40 recommendations offering something distinctive about the city, its history, its location & its inhabitants from Goldrush to post-dotcom. Ranging from shops & taquerias to museums, some are perhaps obvious like the Golden Gate Park or Alcatraz, but all show the city ...

Distinctively San Francisco in a series of City Map/ Guides from Herb Lester Associates with 40 recommendations offering something distinctive about the city, its history, its location & its inhabitants from Goldrush to post-dotcom. Ranging from shops & taquerias to museums, some are perhaps obvious like the Golden Gate Park or Alcatraz, but all show the city’s unique flavour. Maps in this series are an eclectic selection of quirky titles designed to illuminate particular aspects of a city or a district. Each title lists publishers’ recommendations, ranging from the already famous attractions to little gems known only to the well informed locals, all with brief descriptions &, where appropriate, contact details. Accompanying maps are designed to highlight the locations of the recommended places rather than to provide an accurate presentation of the street network. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

San Francisco in the Select Guide series offers a more exclusive handy-sized city break guide from the publisher Insight, with a collection of over 100 inspiring ideas for your chic-urban stay, including plenty of secret gems & off-beat haunts designed for informed, experienced travellers & those on a repeat visit but looking for fresh insights. All recommends have been carefully selected by a local writer who knows the city inside out & can sincerely recommend great places to eat, drink, relax & explore. The guide is constructed with an introductory city overview & then an ...