Things You Didn't Know Existed in SF
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Table of Contents
Funds for Cool Projects and Other Such Things
Events Calendars for SF, Palo Alto, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.
People’s Tags/Emails/Homepages
Other Lists:
Iski's Master List of Mostly Non Consumer Stuff To Do in the Bay Area
Misc:
Athletics/Outdoor/Physical:
SF
Berkeley
Grizzly peak – can see entire sf bay on hill – really pretty at night
Food
“Every Day” Restaurants:
The Melt (everywhere) -- incredible breakfast
Bacon Bacon (Sf, Haight) -- bacon with everything. Awesome fries. Chocolate covered bacon
Drake’s Cafe (SF)
Cafe 320 (Palo Alto) -- ran into vinod khosla there
Saigon City (San Mateo) -- Amazing Pho
Tamrine (Palo Alto) -- Order Shakin Beef
Burma Star
Dim sum carts are disappearing in the Bay Area. Here’s where you can still find them
Grand Dynasty 6164 Bollinger Road, San Jose. granddynastyseafood.com
Saigon Seafood Harbor 1135 Lawrence Expy., Sunnyvale; 3150 Pierce St., Richmond. saigonharbors.com
Yank Sing 101 Spear St. and 49 Stevenson St., San Francisco. yanksing.com
Dessert
Smitten (SF, in SOMA) -- Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream made to Order
Honey Berry (in San Mateo at least) -- Best green tea ice cream ever; “added a new taste to my flavor vocabulary”
Good places to ORDER food from:
Bars:
Uncategorized Restaurants:
Mensho Ramen - japantown – line is long, sign up on waitlist, shop around while waiting to be called #SF #Ramen #Casual
Tsuta #Restaurant #SF #Ramen #Fancy
#Restaurant #SF #California Rich Table
Tara Indian cuisine #Restaurant #SF #Indian #Castro
1608 bistro #Restaurant #sf #filipino
Poc-chuc #Restaurant #sf #Mayan — great tortilla
Manrasu
Benu #Restaurant Clancy
Omakasi #sf #Fancy
John Abbott
Rintaro #Restaurant #sf
Amber India #Restaurant #SF #Indian
Rooh
Nojo ramen men’s ramen #Restaurant #SF #Vegetarian
Rose Monday #Restaurant #SF #Vegetarian sausage
vive la tarte #sf <>Jackfruit we secroissants... #Restaurant
Single thread #Restaurant #sf #vegetarianfriendly
Al’s place
Juni #Restaurant #SF #Sushi
Kokkari #Restaurant #Greek #sf #Good #Best
+1 ~miyuki
#Restaurant #dessert #sf food hall
discovered a great moroccan restaurant: khamsa! #restaurant #sf <>Mei zuo
Espetus #Restaurant #SF
#Cafe #Restaurant #SF newtree
Saison #Restaurant #SF <>Josh skenes #taichimaster... #Fancy
#MeditativeSpace #Tea #Restaurant #SF The center <>#Meditation #MeditativeSpace...
Lolinda #Restaurant #SF #Steakhouse
#Restaurant #sf skool seafood
Wairess Sasha
Soraya
Nute’s noodles #Restaurant #sf
Kitchen social 25 lusk #Restaurant #SF
Crossroads on Delancey #sf #Restaurant #cafe
#Restaurant #sf Taj Old Compton Place hotel
Croissant
Smoked salmon
Lobster frittata
#Restaurant #sf blue pea
tacorea in nob hill
Naayl Kazmi
+1 on beit rima, hook fish co, and daeho
also halal dastarkhan (Uzbek!), rich table, the Tailor's Son, pearl 6101, aziza, prubechu, San ho won when it opens (they were doing takeout but recently stopped)
Beit Rima in Duboce or Cole Valley and Hook Fish Co. in the Outer Sunset
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Zazie
Che fico / alimentari
Square pie guys
vegan sushi @ shizen! Order the Surprise Ending for spicy roulette.
Arts:
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Arun Saigal
Free SF Conservatory of Music recitals
Computer Science (CS):
dot.tk -- .tk domains; completely free! - not directly mit-related :C
minimalisthomepages.tk -- quick workflow to make a centerpoint for yourself on the web
Hacker Spaces
Noisebridge -- hacker space open 24/7
Funds for Cool Projects and Other Such Things
Events Calendars for SF, Palo Alto, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.
People’s Tags/Emails/Homepages
mithomepages.tk -- not just MIT! Add yourself
mitpeople.tk -- people’s keywords, their tags. Not just MIT! Add yourself
minimalisthomepages.tk -- quick workflow to make a centerpoint for yourself on the web
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Discussion Box
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Jacob can you start such a doc for NYC? -dbieber
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