Things San Franciscans Like: Moving To New York

Moving to New York, what a San Franciscan thing to do. Because San Franciscans are perpetually from somewhere else, they are stuck referencing said place…

Things San Franciscans Like: Doing Work In Coffee Shops

I think I’m gonna go do some work in a coffee shop. Nothing big, just somewhere local. You know, the place with the extra-hot coffee….

Things San Franciscans Like: The Sundance Kabuki Theater

As far as San Franciscans are concerned, there is no place like the Sundance Kabuki Theater. It’s comfy, has an awesome balcony, serves food, and…

Things San Franciscans Like: Food

I was at a restaurant in the middle of the day yesterday (very San Francisco), and when I ordered my broccoli soup the waitress immediately…

Things San Franciscans LOVE: Christmas Tree Genocide

Early January is always the saddest time for me, not only because I gained 1 pound over the holidays and have to tell anyone who…

Things San Franciscans Like and Also Don’t Like: Not Being Part of Snowpacolypse ’10

We were glad we weren’t there, but we didn’t like being left out of the action. We tried saying things like, “The Eastern seaboard is…

Things San Franciscans Like: Nopa

If there is one thing that basically equals love for San Franciscans that thing is Nopa the restaurant. Nopa has a bunch of things going…

Things San Franciscans Like: Art Walks

There’s nothing that gets a San Franciscan going like a good old-fashioned art walk. People in other cities are probably under the mistaken impression that…

Things San Franciscans Like: Spending Money On Their Hair

There’s not much that is more satisfying for an SFian than a fresh hairdo, and we know this because of how much they are willing…

Things San Franciscans Do Not Like: The Cold

There is only one type of weather San Franciscans like, and it isn’t bone-chilling-kill-yourself-50-degrees-or-below-mean-weather. Now, we all know that there are some places like Nebraska…

Things San Franciscans Like: Their Google Friends

Things San Franciscans Like: Their Google Friends

I’m not sure that working at Google means much outside the Bay Area, but from the way San Franciscans brag about their friends and significant…

Things San Franciscans Don’t Like: Thinking They’ve Lost Their Phones

There is not much that the San Franciscan finds more frightening then the half-second between when they start looking for their phone and when they…

Things That Are Like Death To San Franciscans: Parking

There is literally nothing in San Francisco that is worse than parking. It’s the kind of place where if you won a free Maserati on…

Things SFians Like: The Difference Between “Real” Giants Fans And The Other 99.9% Of The City

If there is one things that San Franciscans never cared about before and now care about a whole bunch that thing is their baseball team,…

Things San Franciscans Like: Hummus And Pita Chips

Nowhere is it more obvious that pita chips and hummus have become the tortilla chips and salsa of the new millennium than in San Francisco,…

Things San Franciscans Like: The Blue Angels

Like doing floor drugs at French Laundry, you never had a better or worse idea than heading down to the Marina to watch The Blue…

Things San Franciscans Like: The Greek Theatre

I was there on a full-ride scholarship (free tickets) last weekend to see Vampire Weekend, which for some reason both me and my male companion…

Things San Franciscans Like: Not Being San Franciscans

There is almost no person who lives in San Francisco who will call themselves a San Franciscan in mixed company. This is for a few…

Things San Franciscans Like: Taking Themselves Seriously

From the tone of the comments sections on local news sites, to Burning Man, to neighborhood differentiation, “I finally figured out where Upper Haight ends…

Things New Yorkers Like: Writing About SF In A Patronizing Tone

“[San Franciscans] have clothes, but they wear them in private.” — Miguel Lopez, owner of “default outfitter to the Castro tribe” Sui Generis, quoted in…

Things San Franciscans Like: Observations About Themselves

There is almost nothing a San Franciscan appreciates like a well-timed observation about themselves. For those of us actually making the observations about San Franciscans…

Things San Franciscans Don’t Care About At All: Earthquakes

Since the beginning of time everyone has known that San Francisco is a bad place for earthquakes. The only people who don’t seem to realize…

Things San Franciscans Like And Also Hate: Bikes

It’s kind of a chicken/egg scenario when considering which came first: the asshole motorist or the asshole bike rider, but it’s pretty safe to say…

Things San Franciscans Like: The Phrase “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”

Never will you hear so much local pride in shitty weather as you will coming out of the mouth of a San Franciscan in the…

Things San Franciscans Like: Their Phones

If there is one thing that is more important to a San Franciscan than trying to get a boyfriend, or finding out if NOPA is…

Things San Franciscans Like: Tattoos

People in San Francisco talk about getting a tattoo like they’re just doing their job. “(sigh) Well I think I’m getting a tattoo this weekend.”…

Things San Franciscans Like: Roommates

There are probably some places where the idea of living with roommates well into your 30s is thought of as a failure on the same…

Things San Franciscans And The Whole World Likes: Memoirs

Luckily for truth we have entered the age of the memoir. Marriage, divorce, prostitution, copious drug use, doing any of those things in a foreign…

Things San Franciscans Don’t Like: Getting Asked To Join Greenpeace

Pretty much the first thing you learn when you move to, or even visit San Francisco is that there are a lot of things on…

Things San Franciscans Like About Bike Messengers: Everything

Things San Franciscans Like About Bike Messengers: Everything

Bike messengers are like the firemen of San Francisco. Not because they are buff or rescue kittens from trees, but because they are universally thought…

Things San Franciscans Like But Do Not Know How To Deal With: Heat

It’s not the heat so much as the dry heat. It’s just too much. — 7:00 a.m. Saturday June 12, 2010, Inner Richmond Now I…

Things San Franciscans Don’t Know That They Like Yet: Bustaurants

“World Fare, America’s first official bustaurant, opened its doors in Los Angeles this past March. “- Salon.com Like Brangelina and the maltipoo, a Bustaurant is…

Gothic A-Cup Dolly Parton: Karen Elson At Cafe du Nord

Karen Elson is one of those rare people who can be a model, marry Jack White on the Amazon River, and make a crowd wait…

Appealing Events: Karen Elson At Cafe Du Nord

Okay, I know we don’t like Karen Elson, because she’s a model and she married Jack White in a canoe on the Amazon River. However,…

Things That Make San Franciscans Depressed: Sundays

Is there anything more depressing than the low melancholy that rolls in at 5 o’clock on a dreary Sunday afternoon? Probably some things yes, but…

Things San Franciscans Like: Best Of Lists

There are not many things that get San Franciscans more excited than the annual release of the Best of Lists. This is probably because there…

Things San Franciscans Like: Bay To Breakers

If you’ve never been to Bay To Breakers you’ve probably never had to set an alarm on a Sunday so you could make sure to…

Things San Franciscans Don’t Like: Stopping For Pedestrians

There is nothing that appears to confuse San Francisco drivers more than a pedestrian in the crosswalk. They will look at you with this particular…

Things San Franciscans Like: Boutique Anything

The word ’boutique,’ like the letter ‘i’ can be put in front of any other word (hotel, winery, law firm) to make it instantly desirable…

Things San Franciscans Like: These Boots

If there is one thing that unites the women of San Francisco it is their unabashed love for the ‘Intyce’ boot by Steven by Steve…