![]() ![]() Because of its location on a modest block in the Richmond district, it is not a well-known spot among the younger tech crowd, but older San Francisco Jewish families know it well. It is a real bakery that has been serving the best bagels in the Bay Area for more than half a century. San Francisco is not known for Jewish cuisine, but the House of Bagels is an exception (and not a sad New York knock-off). At 14th Avenue, head north for a couple of blocks to Geary, San Francisco’s largest and busiest east-west thoroughfare. Balboa is an unremarkable western San Francisco street, but the large homes, more modest flats (in San Francisco there are flats, not apartments), and ground-floor businesses boasting everything from test prep for kids to Korean BBQ capture the gestalt of the changing Richmond District. If biking isn’t your thing, western San Francisco is accessible by foot and also by the best public transportation of any part of the city, as buses or streetcars run on most of the major east-west boulevards.Īfter deciding on your mode of transport, continue on Balboa Street until you get to 14th Avenue. A few doors down is Le Velo Rouge, a vaguely French-feeling cafe where you can get a cup of coffee, use the free Wi-Fi, and people-watch the mix of young parents, tourists from Golden Gate Park, and the occasional USF student from up the road. ![]() For $40 you’ll get a good bike for the whole day. Bike rentals there, are, by San Francisco standards, very affordable. San Francyclo, a neighborhood bike shop on the corner of Golden Gate and Arguello, has friendly staff who are always happy to fix a flat or offer advice on how to avoid the worst of San Francisco’s hills, but they open a little later, at 11 a.m. by stopping at one of the many bike shops on Stanyan Street, at the eastern border of Golden Gate Park, and rent a bike. If you feel up to it, start your morning at around 10 a.m. To make the most of a day in the western half of San Francisco, leave your car elsewhere because nothing can ruin a day of natural beauty, oddly alluring neighborhoods, quirky wildlife, and fantastic food like spending hours looking for parking.
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