San Francisco

Golden Gate Bridge

Attractions

★★★★★

Walk or bike across at least once. For the photo, head to Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands just before sunset.

Lands End

Outdoors

★★★★★

A wild coastal trail inside city limits — cypress groves, shipwreck views, and the Sutro Baths ruins at the end.

Ferry Building Marketplace

Food

★★★★★

Oysters at Hog Island, porchetta sandwiches at Roli Roti on Saturdays, and the bay laid out behind it all.

Tartine Bakery

Dessert

★★★★★

The Mission bakery that changed American bread. The morning bun is the order; the line is the tax.

Sightglass Coffee

Coffee

★★★★★

A soaring SoMa roastery where the Probat roaster is the centerpiece. Take your pour-over to the mezzanine.

Trick Dog

Drinks

★★★★★

A Mission bar whose menu reinvents itself as a zodiac wheel, a paint catalog, a children’s book. Always inventive, never precious.

Hayes Valley

Shopping

★★★★★

Independent boutiques and local designers packed into a few walkable blocks, with Smitten’s liquid-nitrogen ice cream when you need a break.