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a loosely defined SF neighborhood guide

Activities, Outdoors

Take the Steps and Sweat it Off

For exactly zero dollars and no cents, you can get your heart rate up and your gluteus in gear by conquering the one, two, three, say four billion steps of Forest Hill. The main stairway, officially called The Path Street Stairway is something of a double-wide. Continue reading Take the Steps and Sweat it Off

Unknown's avatarmeryl bennanAugust 27, 2015September 21, 2015Leave a comment
Activities, Entertainment, Kids, Retail

Knit, Read and Do No Wrong

You want to get textbooks for your teen as she starts high school? Fine. Go to Amazon. But if you want to aimlessly wander through aisles of compelling pages only to add more to your must-read list then The Bookshop West Portal is the place to be. Continue reading Knit, Read and Do No Wrong

Unknown's avatarmeryl bennanAugust 26, 2015September 19, 2015Leave a comment
Food, Retail

Go Fish at the Meat Market

I swear this isn’t a food blog. But seriously, a neighborhood (or whole entire portion of the city) is only as good as the food it offers. And anchoring the West Portal-ish hood to its naturally delicious roots in San Francisco delights is Guerra’s Meat Market. Continue reading Go Fish at the Meat Market

Unknown's avatarmeryl bennanAugust 20, 2015September 21, 2015Leave a comment
Activities, Food, Outdoors, Retail

Snag Sweet Deals on Fresh Fruit

Well, here we are about a mile away from serious stone fruit steals and it occurs to me that sometimes we need a little reminder that the Ferry Building isn’t the only farm-to-fork game in town. Continue reading Snag Sweet Deals on Fresh Fruit

Unknown's avatarmeryl bennanAugust 18, 2015September 16, 2015Leave a comment
Food, Kids

Slurp Some Soup Dumplings

If you think that the restaurant choices in West Portal are limited to its namesake street, you’ve got it all wrong. Make your way through that little tunnel and continue on the L Taraval til 28th street. Now we’re talking! Kingdom of Dumplings is small, but mighty. Continue reading Slurp Some Soup Dumplings

Unknown's avatarmeryl bennanJuly 13, 2015September 16, 20151 Comment

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