If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you’re probably already familiar with the people at Real Old Paper Gallery. It’s now the only brick-and-mortar vintage poster gallery in Northern California–and we’re fortunate to have it right here in
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As North Beach cruises through the end of another Indian Summer, it’s hard not to feel grateful to be here. We’ve experienced a return to form in recent days, with a flurry of new restaurant and bar openings that shows
When it comes to specialty retail, North Beach has always had a full plate. In addition to some of the best bars and restaurants in the city, we’ve got some of the best Italian pastry shops anywhere, and Grant Avenue
In a city replete with great neighborhoods, North Beach is considered by many to be San Francisco’s best–and it’s not hard to see why. As one of its original settlements, North Beach is a jewel box of San Francisco history,
San Francisco has been a food town since its early years, and to this day it remains one of the most gastronomically obsessed cities in America. The numbers tell the story: according to the most recent estimates, San Francisco has
After a decade and a half as a North Beach resident, you can imagine I’ve seen a lot of people come and go. And in a neighborhood like ours, that of course goes for bars and restaurants as well; after
I love nice clothing of all sorts, but for me there’s nothing quite like a good pair of shoes. No other single element of style makes more of a statement—or inspires the same level of loyalty among the fashion inclined—than
There are a lot of good things about North Beach, and as regular readers know, I spend a fair amount of time enumerating the neighborhood’s virtues here on the blog. I’ve been here for a decade and a half now,
North Beach is a neighborhood that has long been known for its creative types, and happily that hasn’t changed too much. Even after the retail shakeout of the last couple of years, we’ve still got storefront galleries–with more apparently on
In 2007, roughly one year after I moved to North Beach from Lower Manhattan, Sotto Mare opened its doors on Green Street. They chose a busy location, directly between the street’s two most storied watering holes, Gino & Carlo and