San Francisco Bay Area: Your favorite things to do or places to go

[El Diablo]

turnip,

The Ferry Building farmer's market is not open on Fridays. It is open on Tuesday and Saturday mornings, and Thursday evenings during the summer. Friday is def better than Saturday for walking around Angel Island, but I've never seen it get too crowded. There are plenty of stores inside the Ferry Building where you can pick up (somewhat overpriced) stuff for a picnic lunch.

When are you in town?

[turnipmonster]

thurs - sun of next week. is there a time out sf, or something like the village voice? btw we are planning on hitting the slanted door also, very excited to try it after hearing great things from pretty much everyone I've ever talked to.

[turnipmonster]

one more question, is sushi groove south better than the russian hill sushi groove?

[El Diablo]

turnip,

Two of them, SF Weekly and SF Bay Guardian. Online at sfweekly.com and sfbg.com.

Check opentable.com for Slanted Door reservations. If you can't find something there that works, don't worry, you have two good backup options. One is to go to the restaurant and sit at the bar. The other is to go to Out The Door at the San Francisco Shopping Center downtown and go sit at a table there (not from their front takeout window) where they have a good subset with most of the best stuff from the full Slanted Door menu.

[El Diablo]

t,

Yes, Sushi Groove South is better ambience, less tightly packed (though still pretty close quarters), far easier parking, and just an overall much cooler place. The food is the same.

[turnipmonster]

d,
thanks for the tips, I got slanted door at 9pm through opentable. reason I was asking about sushi groove is the south location is on opentable but not taking reservations right now for some reason, but the russian hill location is. sounds like south is better so I'll just give them a call.

[Snipe]

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c,

The Ramp, Zeitgeist, Pier 23, Americano. Four very different places that are all great when it's sunny. Zeitgeist and Americano can get pretty packed quickly on nice sunny days, though.

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Gotta add Medjool to the list of fantastic places to enjoy a sunny / boozy afternoon. The roof deck is about the best place to enjoy great whether in the city with reasonably priced drinks and an eclectic crowd.

[El Diablo]

Snipe,

The medjool roof deck is phenomenal. I've only been there on evenings, and it is super nice early, but gets way too packed later at night.

[Jon1000]

Bambudhha lounge on sundays. outdoor grass/pool/dj. nice looking space.

[inside??]

I went to a place called Scoma's that was pretty good. Also around Xmas the salmon were running up the stream at Muir Woods so it was cool watching them jump upstream.