Thanks guys, appreciate it.

San Francisco Sketchfest is coming up, it always pulls in the best of comedy:

http://www.sfsketchfest.com/schedule/

Music fans,

http://lineup.noisepop.com/ looking pretty good this year.

That is a good lineup. I've seen Bob Mould recently...don't be fooled by his gray hair that man still rocks.

Gonna be back in SF for the weekend (the 5 day kind of weekend). Definitely want to hit Mission chinese, and flour and water is around the corner from my buddy's place and I have always heard good things. Would love to find some really exceptional ethnic places to eat at, as well as a top notch burger. Suggestions?

Monk's Kettle in the Mission is an A+ burger

Haven't had the burger there, but other foods are very good and the beer list is even better than A+.

looks perfect, and very close to where I am staying, thanks

Hey guys,

I'm coming to SF for the first time in a couple of weeks. Apologies if these questions have been covered in this thread (which I'm sure they have, but the recent pages I've searched seem to be music related), but I'm hoping you guys could help me out with the following:

1) Good place to stay? Would prefer a cheaper place (not Motel 6 cheap, something like ~150 a night would be OK) but I'm mostly concerned with location. Any areas to avoid or is the city easy to navigate via cabs/public transportation? I'd like to be close to the nightlife scene.

2) Nightlife. Looking for a couple of top-tier places with top-tier females and a couple of dive-type joints.

Thanks.

Actually just booked @ Omni Hotel, 500 Cali street. I guess this is Financial District? Anything cool nearby?

disko,

I'll try and come back to this thread in the next few days with details, but if I don't just fire me a PM. There's not much right in that exact area, but that area is safe, the hotel is good, and you are easy walking and/or public transit away from both top-tier bars/clubs and awesome dives.

Muir Woods is the best place on Earth.

great, thanks!

Diskoteque you're in pretty centralized location and should be able to get anywhere fairly quickly. You can easily walk to Northbeach which you should check out. SF isn't really known for the club scene but Slide is always a good choice. There's a pretty cool bar called Rickhouse not far from you that you might want to check out. There's also tons of dives and bars on Polk st. (not far from you) where you can easily hop around. I also found that Bruno's in the mission had lots of girls (basically anywhere that has dancing)..

That area tends to empty out on nights and weekends as it is where people work...and +1 to what cpar1 said. Check out Chinatown too...you're right there.

just got back. had an amazing time.

+1000 to whoever said monk's kettle's burgers are A+.

nightlife spots i really enjoyed: W hotel, the republic (for super bowl), some place around the corner from republic that was absolutely nuts and had hot girls everywhere, and a place called bullet (i think).

lots of people told me to hit up matrix and some surrounding bars. they were fun but slightly overrated based on what i heard beforehand.

Check out farmer's market at embarcadero on saturday. Must have is gamja fries from nomu food stand. Next door stand has oyster po-boys and salmon BLT sandwich. Sooooo dankkkk.

For younger bars, check out Holy Cow (14th and Folsom) on Thursdays. 1/2 off drinks till mindnight. Favorite clubs- slide, 330 rich(a bit far out, can be slightly ghetto at times), temple( huge club- 2 floors. upper house floor/downstairs hip hop. get on free glist online for free before 11pm). If you are seeking a no-cover club thats more loungey, bubble lounge(serves bubbly/ slightly older crowd).

Other notables infusion, flow, grand (EDM club that just opened up- very pretty crowd/ buy bottles- the line is insane), and of course ruby skye(EDM).

And avoid matrix/marina clubs at all costs. Absolutely hate the clubs there. Circa/East-side west/Matrix are terribleeeeee. Wayyyy older crowd or very fratty crowd. Reminds me too much of LA

Sunday brunch check out Circa for bottomless mimosas (10 dollars) w/purchase of food per person. Had an easy 7-8 glasses of mimosas 2 weekends ago.... Then walk up to Pacific Puff for amazing cream-puffs(if they have it, try the pumpkin spice or amaretto) on Fillmore and Union. Fan-****ing-tastic

I was answering this in OOT, and thought it may be useful here:

It can be, but I just call cabs to my door. Luxor and DeSoto cab companies are both world class at getting to your door in 5 minutes at anytime except friday and sat night, and even then they are like 15 minutes. I think Luxor is faster, but the Desoto fleet drives minivans which can be useful if traveling with a crew.

Mikey - good to know, thanks. Have you tried Uber? (SMS-based service, I think Uber has town cars vs. cab):

https://www.uber.com/#

My buddy said it's not as good as others say, here's their yelp:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/uber-san-francisco

In trying to find the name of Uber (couldn't remember) I came across this lol:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/homobiles-san-francisco

Warning: this is a plug for my brother's window/pop-up restaurant.

I've been to San Fran twice to visit my brother. I absolutely love the city. My brother's a chef whose wife owns the #1 flower shop in Church Street Flowers (another plug. get your flowers here).

For anyone who watches the Food Network, my brother was a runner up to Aarti in season 6 of the Next Food Network Star. He also hosted two seasons of a show called Outrageous Food on the same channel.

He's now got a sweet pop-up restaurant/window restaurant (depending on the day) based around a belly burger. It's ground up pork belly into a patty, with delicious toppings and sides. I know there are a bunch of foodies in this thread, so I def think you guys should check it out.

His twitter is @BCTBellyBurgers so you know when he's out and where.

/shameless plug

Dolores Park at sun down is my favorite place in the city.

Demon,

Congrats on your bro's Food Network show! That sandwich sounds delicious, but your brother is completely incompetent at social media/marketing.