✨ Classic 48 Hours · Balanced pace · 3 days
A weekend escape to San Francisco
The greatest hits — outdoors, food, culture and a night out.
Day 1
Friday
- Evening
Tartine Bakery
Bakery · $$ · MissionOpen the weekend here — Country bread + morning buns that started a city-wide craze.
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Day 2
Saturday
- MorningGolden Gate Bridge WalkOutdoors · Presidio
Walk or bike the 1.7-mile span — best from Crissy Field side.
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Swan Oyster Depot
Seafood · $$ · Polk Gulch18 counter stools, Dungeness crab and clam chowder since 1912.
Find on Google Maps - AfternoonMission MuralsCulture · Mission
Balmy Alley and Clarion Alley — decades of political street art.
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State Bird Provisions
Dim sum-style new American · $$$ · FillmoreStuart Brioza's dim-sum carts of inventive small plates.
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Day 3
Sunday
- MorningGolden Gate ParkOutdoors · Sunset
1,000+ acres with bison, windmills, the de Young and free Sunday roads.
Find on Google Maps - AfternoonAlcatraz IslandCulture · Bay
Ferry over for the famously eerie cell-house audio tour — book weeks ahead.
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