Wendy's Waffle Bar

42. San Francisco: City Series! first impressions, best iced vanilla latte review, and recommendations

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Hellloooo, today I share all my thoughts on San Francisco! First impressions, misconceptions, and all of the cafe/restaurant/park reviews! See below for the full list, hope you enjoy :)

San Francisco 

COFFEE / BAKERIES 

  • Red Bay Coffee✔️ iced vanilla latte (10/10) -> ferry building 
  • Ritual Coffee✔️ iced oat milk sweet latte (10/10) -> Haight Ashbury
  • Duboce Park Cafe✔️ egg sammy and iced oat milk vanilla latte (10/10) -> Duboce Park
  • Blue Bottle✔️ sweet iced latte (8/10) -> Hayes Valley 
  • La Boulangerie✔️ iced vanilla latte (6/10) -> Hayes Valley
  • SightGlass✔️iced vanilla latte (5/10) -> Divisadero
  • Wooden Coffee House✔️iced vanilla latte with whole milk? (3/10) -> Cole Valley
  • The Mill✔️egg in a hole toast(7/10), earl grey olive oil cake (10/10), iced syrup latte (5/10) -> Divisadero
  • Cafe Reveille✔️ iced vanilla latte with whole milk (3/10) -> Duboce Triangle
  • Jane the Bakery✔️iced sweet latte, chocolate chip toffee cookie, banana bread, and turkey/caramelized onion sandwich, $30 (9/10) -> 
    • Jane on Larkin
    • Jane on Fillmore
    • Fifty/fifty✔️iced vanilla latte (8/10) -> Lone Mountain
    • Stable Cafe -> the mission 
    • As Quoted -> Presidio Heights 
    • Andy Town Coffee Roasters -> Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset
    • Thorough Bread -> Castro
    • Cinderella Bakery
    • Cafe Trieste
    • Paris Baguette
    • Kantine
    • Tartine

      • BAGELS / BREAKFAST  

      • Shlock’s Bagels & Lox✔️ iced chai tea and cream cheese salt bagel (9/10) -> Divisadero
      • The Laundromat✔️ salt bagel (10/10) -> Outer Richmond
      • Fiddle Fig, russian hill - breakfast sandwiches
      • Cracked and Battered -> Marina 

        • AÇAÍ

        • Bowl’d
        • Palmetto superfoods

          • SALADS 

          • original Joe’s (Dungeness crab Louie)

            • DRINKS (and tapas)

            • Zeitgeist✔️Beer bar in Mission
            • The saloon - live blues bar in north beach
            • Smuggler’s Cove - Tiki Bar just north of Mission
            • Phone Booth - dive bar in Mission
            • 500 Club✔️dive bar in Mission
            • Arcana - natural wine bar with live music in Mission
            • NoPa✔️ gin & juice, lentil soup 
            • Phononbar✔️ summer summer summertime (8/10)
            • TrickDog✔️ scooby snack shot 
            • Lost Resort✔️
            • ABV
            • Red Window (live music every sat/sun 11-3) 
            • Little Red Window 
            • House of Shields 
            • Madrone’s (Motown Mondays!) 
            • Irvin street and 19th 
            • The View Lounge, for sunset, downtown
            • Arbor Patio, for wine, Hayes Valley 

              • SEAFOOD

              • Scoma’s - fancy and $$$
              • Hog Island Oyster Co. 
              • Hook Fish✔️ fish tacos and fish&chips (8/10)

                • MEXICAN 

                • Nopalito
                • Mission burritos✔️
                • Lolo✔️ Valencia in the mission (10/10)

                  • ITALIAN 

                  • Square Pie Guys
                  • Original Joe’s
                  • Tony’s Pizza
                  • Casaro Osteria, Union street 
                  • Flour and Water - special occasions 

                    • JAPANESE

                    • Nora✔️ blazing glory (6/10)
                    • Tsunami✔️ papa San, volcano roll, spicy tuna (10/10)
                    • Marfuku - ramen 
                    • No Joe’s - Hayes valley, ramen 

                      • THAI 

                      • Mangrove Kitchen✔️chicken pad Thai 
                      • Farmhouse ✔️ chicken pad Thai 

                        • INDIAN 

                        • Dancing Yak (Nepalese)

                          • VIETNAMESE 

                          • PPQ
                          • Dragon Eats - bon mi

                            • BURMESE

                            • Burma Superstar 

                              • DESSERTS

                              • salt and straw✔️ Hayes Valley
                              • Hot cookie✔️Castro
                              • Bi-Rite Creamery✔️Alamo Square 
                              • Swenson’s 
                              • Smitten Ice Cream✔️ the Mission 

                                • ACTIVITIES

                                • Dolores Park - great for a view of the city skyline, lots of people watching, get a mission burrito while you’re there
                                • Headlands Lookout - best view of the Golden Gate Bridge/city
                                • Golden Gate Park - bigger than Central Park
                                • The Mission - Mexican/hipstery neighborhood with great food and bars, near Dolores park. Mission street and Valencia street are both awesome
                                • North Beach - Italian neighborhood, very picturesque also great food/drinks
                                • Alamo Square Park - good view, painted ladies from Full House
                                • Hike up twin peaks for a good view
                                • Bernal heights hill also a good view 
                                • Lands end is like SFs version of discovery park in Seattle
                                • Bonfire on ocean beach 
                                • Devils slide trail in Pacifica - more of a chill walk than a hiking trail but pretty views and it’s like 20 mins from SF 
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