San Francisco Bay Area Vacation and Travel Guide

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

The San Francisco Bay Area has a rich culinary history and food culture, and chocolate definitely played a main role in that. As you can see from the festivals discussed below, the San Francisco Bay Area still enjoys and celebrates…

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…

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…

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…

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finest museums and galleries in the world reside here, and they provide a stunning diversity of artistic expression, historical reference and scientific exploration.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…

When Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ opened in May 1958 at San Francisco’s Stage Door Theatre (a Tenderloin venue that later became the now-closed nightclub, Ruby Skye), the majority of the reviews were, to put it kindly, less than enthusiastic. In 1996, when…