St. Francis Fountain: Blast from the past

On colorful Lower 24th Street, an eclectic Outer Mission District commercial strip where Hispanics and hipsters reign, new sushi restaurants vie for attention with old Mexican bakeries and eye-pleasing murals. In the midst of this potpourri at the corner of York Street is a cheerful little diner called St. Francis Fountain. It’s been here since 1918, a dozen years after the 1906 Quake, and it will take another Big Shaker to put an end to its tradition of Big Shakes.

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Chinatown: A visit to China minus the jet lag

If it feels like you’re in China while navigating the crowds that spill onto the sidewalk from every produce market on Kearny Street, it’s because San Francisco’s Chinatown packs one of the largest Chinese communities outside Asia—about 20,000 Chinese and Chinese-Americans—into an three-by-eight-block rectangle. True, the souvenir shops and restaurants on Grant Avenue are filled with tourists. But the sidewalks on every other street and alley are the domain of the Chinese and Chinese-Americans.

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Press Club: No reporters, just fine wines

People have discovered the Press Club in a big way. Since opening in September 2008, it’s been packed on weekend nights with not only the after-work crowd, but later at night with singles who like its contempo vibe. Calling itself an “urban tasting room,” it’s comfortably and uniquely at the halfway point between a wine bar (too sedate) and a nightclub (too rowdy).

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