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San Francisco Bay Area Vacation and Travel Guide

"Pace Yourself" sign at San Francisco Street Food Festival

San Francisco Bay Area Festivals – 2024 & 2025

The San Francisco Bay Area is world-renowned for offering excellent foodie experiences, and this massive calendar of the region’s food and beverage events probably won’t surprise you. Whether you’re looking for something to do in Santa Cruz this weekend or…

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San Francisco Bay Area Tourist Maps

Northern California’s “Bay Area” is quite large — about 100 miles north-to-south and 50 miles east-to-west — and most tourism resources sub-divide the area into smaller regions, as we have on the San Francisco Bay Area tourist map below. Bay…

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Dandelion Chocolate Factory, San Francisco, CA

Chocolate Factory Tour in San Francisco

If you were disappointed to learn there is no longer a San Francisco Ghirardelli chocolate factory tour (you can click that link to learn all about San Francisco’s chocolate-making history, in which Ghirardelli played an important role), we have some…

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The former TCHO Chocolate Factory when it was located on San Francisco's Pier 17

Another Chocolate Maker in San Francisco

In 2011, we visited the TCHO (pronounce “Cho” with a long ‘o’ — sounds like “show”) chocolate factory in San Francisco. It was Big Fun, with free samples of tasty chocolate… what’s not to love? 2021 Update: Dandelion Chocolate Factory,…

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San Francisco Bay Area Vacation Ideas

San Francisco Bay Area Vacation Ideas

This vacation and travel guide will introduce you to the City of San Francisco, itself, as well as to the geographic portion of the state known as “the Bay Area,” which stretches from Marin County (across the Golden Gate Bridge…

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San Francisco Ferry Building farmer's market

San Francisco Culinary Vacations

If you fancy yourself a foodie — or even if you just like eating excellent food — you’d be hard-pressed to find a better place for a culinary vacation or weekend getaway than the gastronomic mecca of San Francisco. With…

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Gott's Roadside at San Francisco Ferry Building

San Francisco Food Tours

There may be no better way to learn about the cultural diversity of San Francisco neighborhoods than to sample their delightful food and beverage offerings. If you’re planning a San Francisco culinary vacation to indulge in The City’s food scene,…

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Chocolates from Chocolate Heaven, San Francisco Pier 39

San Francisco Chocolate Festival and Salon Guide

San Francisco is known for hosting amazing food and wine festivals. And, since chocolate has had a leading role in its rich culinary history since way back to the Gold Rush days, it seems only natural that the Bay Area…

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Mermaid Fountain at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco

San Francisco Chocolates

U.S consumers spent about $17 billion on chocolate in 2016, and as is true for all artisan foodstuffs California received a nice piece of that. San Francisco is definitely the state’s chocolate hub, and the delectable sweet appears in many…

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San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge seen from Fort Mason

San Francisco Landmarks

You can’t talk about The City’s landmarks without first talking about the geography that gives rise to them — figuratively and literally, in some cases — namely, its hills and its islands. Although some people put the number of San…

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Russian Hill in San Francisco seen from Coit Tower

San Francisco Neighborhoods

San Francisco neighborhoods run the spectrum from stylish (Hayes Valley) to funky (Upper Haight) to posh (Pacific Heights) to historic (Mission District) to industrial-chic (SoMa) to ethnic (Chinatown/Japantown/North Beach) to just about everything in between. This diversity helps make San…

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exterior

San Francisco Bay Area Museums

San Francisco Bay Area museums are truly an eclectic mix. Some of the finest museums and galleries in the world reside here, and they provide a stunning diversity of artistic expression, historical reference and scientific exploration. You can learn about…

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