Twenty reasons to visit San Francisco
Hear hauntingly compelling accounts of what it was like to live and work on Alcatraz.
Hear hauntingly compelling accounts of what it was like to live and work on Alcatraz.
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Barry Divola discovers a tiki bar with fake rainstorms and a whole lot of history.
Spend the morning roaming the Presidio pathways before heading into the urban bustle for shopping and art.
Just in time for the Oscars, Ben Stubbs tours movie locations in Alfred Hitchcock's favourite city.
True to its food-bowl heritage, San Francisco has embraced fine produce to become a cosmopolitan foodie haven, writes Flip Byrnes.
The city is a golden gate to Chinatown banquets, top Bay Area seafood and cutting-edge cuisine, writes Ute Junker.
Penny Watson fuels her creativity in the city's bookshops, anarchist cafes and fine-food emporiums.
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With amazing panoramas across the bay, from Alcatraz to the iconic Golden Gate, what's not to love? Save your legs from those hills and catch cable cars across to Chinatown, past its pastel-coloured Victorian rooflines, to the birthplace of hippie, the Haight. Grab a coat and watch the ethereal nightly fog roll in from a cosy bar, or experience the biggest food truck event in California; Off The Grid.