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Financial District
San Francisco is the financial capital of the West Coast. The center of the city’s Financial District is Montgomery Street, the “Wall Street of the West,” where the towers of wealth blot out the sun at street level. This part of town is built on landfill comprising the remains of hundreds of abandoned ships and [...]
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Downtown
Cafe de la Presse. This cafe, near the German and French cultural centers, has a French-speaking staff and stacks of Le Monde (among other European newspapers) at the counter. You can enjoy your espresso outdoors under sidewalk umbrellas, but the Parisian fantasy ends there: One look at the snarl of traffic from Bush Street to [...]
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Civic Center/Hayes Valley
Mad Magda’s Russian Tea Room and Cafe. Magda’s has an otherworldly feel, a bit like the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland: There are deep blue ceilings, red walls, and a “magic” garden in back. For $13 you can get an expert palm, aura, or Tarot card reading (Mon. and Tues. 1 pm- [...]
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San Francisco – Castro/Noe Valley
The Castro District teems with lively restaurants, many with outdoor patios. Brunch is an institution here: Mimosas and espressos flow freely on weekend mornings, and the crowd is always jovial and loud. Follow the sunglasses-wearing masses to the hottest brunch spots, Cafe Flore and the Patio Cafe, and brace yourself for a long afternoon of [...]
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Golden Gate Park
Its most serious adversary proved to be the weather. Wind-driven salt water and fog have rusted out iron balustrades and spiral staircases and have eaten into the mortar. If the Golden Gate Bridge’s imaginative chief engineer, Joseph Strauss, had not ordered construction of a special arch over the fort, it would have been torn down [...]
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