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Continue reading →: Take the Steps and Sweat it OffFor 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.
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Continue reading →: Knit, Read and Do No WrongYou 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.
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Continue reading →: Go Fish at the Meat MarketI 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.
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Continue reading →: Snag Sweet Deals on Fresh FruitWell, 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.
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Continue reading →: Slurp Some Soup DumplingsIf 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.






