Reviews for San Francisco, CA, USA

San Francisco Chinatown is the biggest Chinatown in the world and a nice place to stroll around. The place is a mixture of real Chinese town with peculiar stores, Chinese banks and exotic foods, and a commercial version of the Chinatowns, maintained for the tourists.

There are a lot of restaurant... More >

San Francisco downtown has one good mall, located on the corner of Market Street and 5th Street. The few first floors host boutiques and Nordstrom department store is on the topmost floors.

The boutiques are pricey and Nordstrom is not cheap either, so prepare to have a thick wallet or enough cre... More >

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is surprisingly good art museum; both the collections and the museum itself is really worth a visit.

The collections cannot boast with a huge selection of works from celebrated artists, but it is big enough to portray the essence in modern art. The exhibitions f... More >

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has an excellent collection of art that is accompanied with an excellent museum store. The groundfloor showroom is huge and it contains all varieties of good sold in the typical museum store.

The art book collection is good and especially modern and contemporary... More >

San Francisco is known for the Apple flagship store, but the other stylish computer manufacturer -- Sony -- has its outlet Sony'Style in the downtown. The store is located in the Metreon center next to Yerba Buena Gardens park. Metreon itself is an entertainment complex with shops, restaurants, cafÃ... More >

I have learned during a few last months that the sushi portions in Japanese restaurants in the USA are quite small; the difference to the normal situation is huge, as most portions are simply too much for the uninitiated.

Sushi Rika is an exception to this rule. Both nigiris and rolls have good a... More >

Taraval Okazu Ya is a smallish Japanese restaurant with even smaller sushi bar. There are two dining rooms, one facing the street and other on the back of the restaurant. The sushi bar sits roughly ten people and it is a good choice for watching the chefs making sushi.

The food is good and the pr... More >

Tenderloin is area north of San Francisco Civic Center showing the San Francisco life in it's raw form. The streets are lined with homeless people, some of those looking quite unfriendly. There are grudgy corner stores in which you really don't want to buy anything.

Note that the area is not very... More >

We got a dirt cheap room from The Donatello, and thus we were fearing for the worst. Fortunately, the hotel exceeded our expectations in all fronts. The rooms were big and airy; our family of four fit in nicely, the sofa doubled as an extra bed and there were plenty of room for the crib, too. The ro... More >

The Mosser is a sort of boutique hotel in the very heart of San Francisco on Fourth Street. Market Street with all its shops is just stone throw away and SFMoMA is just across a park.

The hotel has been recently redesigned, so the rooms are airy and stocked with good amenities. Note that you'll h... More >