Hey San Franciscans! Question for you....


Reply
 
Topic Tools Search this Thread
eHA_Admin_Lori is offline eHA_Admin_Lori — Advice Official Moderator Post #1  September 17,2009, 5:04pm
eHA_Admin_Lor…'s Avatar

My one wish for you, is love. :)

Moderator

Joined: Nov 2008

Santa Monica, CA

Posts: 5,120

See profile

One of my office-mates is looking for romantic activity ideas for an upcoming weekend trip to celebrate his wedding anniversary.

Any suggestions?
 
  Reply With Quote
D_Lion is offline D_Lion Post #2  September 17,2009, 5:08pm
D_Lion's Avatar

- Ladies want to wring my neck - you have been warned!

Sage

Joined: Aug 2008

Posts: 31,659

See profile

He could get together with 6dle899 and find a car on fire and take a picture of it?
 
  Reply With Quote
jacsmit is offline jacsmit Post #3  September 17,2009, 5:22pm
jacsmit's Avatar

Quick Study

Joined: Feb 2009

Can

Posts: 213

See profile

What kind of things do they enjoy doing? This is such an open ended question given all the possibilities here. How about wine tasting and a B&B in Napa? Or a nice restaurant overlooking the coast in Mendicino? Dah, so many options... Tahoe, Monterey - hiking, biking, camping. Ferries/lake-cruises, Angel Island, picnic on Mt Diablo, ....

Or was this one of those questions where we're supposed to make jokes instead?
Last edited by jacsmit; September 17,2009 at 5:28pm. Reason: weee
 
  Reply With Quote
SierraMountainAir is offline SierraMountainAir Post #4  September 17,2009, 5:45pm
SierraMountai…'s Avatar

The Doctor just called. Your test results are in.

Power Poster

Joined: Apr 2008

California, but NORTHERN California

Posts: 6,025

See profile

Well I don't live there now but did till almost four years ago....born and lived there most of my life, my father was born there too. So I will take a hack at this...

I go back all the time and in fact was there all day yesteday, and yes it can be very romantic.

Hmm. For a weekend, I would stay in one of the bed and breakfasts near Washington Square (Little Italy) I think. That's ground zero and walking distance to Lots of good things.. In the morning you could go to Cafe Roma, a couple of blocks away, for a wonderful coffee, or up the street to the Italian/French bakery for fresh pastries (or Dianda's)
..or down Upper Grant Ave, a couple blocks away, and look in at Cafe Trieste (wonderful coffee so good it's sold commercially all over Nor Cal) and listen to the free Sat morning Italian Opera.

Walking another block or so down Columbus (towards the flatiron building and the Transamerica Pyramid) is the Molinari deli, an old tradition, perfect for buying the makings of a picnic lunch, a nice place to do that is the Huntington Park on the top of Nob Hill.


The wonderful weather in SF is sooooo nice just now -- about 70* --PERFECT!!!!

I would AVOID the tourist stuff, cable cars and fishermans wharf, just TOO swamped with tourists.

Across the street from Huntington Park (Calif. St/Clay Street) is the Starlight Room in SF's grandest hotel - the Fairmont. Probably the most romantic place there still is for a lovely celebration Take the outside elevator to the top to get there. Insanely expensive drinks but the most romantic place in the city for them, I even went there to celebrate MY anniversary with her.

An offbeat fun cheaper alternative to that would be the Sherlock Holmes bar in the hotel downtown on Sutter Street.. (google YELP.COM San Francisco to get it.)

Restaurants are a moving target, so go look at the local paper www.sfgate.com and the independent one www.sfbg.com for reviews,, wonderful for ethnic foods.

Take a cab over to the flower market 7th street one block down from Bryant after breakfast to see the wholesale flower sellers in action and maybe pick up a bouquet a beauty for cheap, or even a little bonsai tree to take back.
Last edited by 6dle899; September 17,2009 at 6:02pm.
 
  Reply With Quote
SierraMountainAir is offline SierraMountainAir Post #5  September 17,2009, 6:07pm
SierraMountai…'s Avatar

The Doctor just called. Your test results are in.

Power Poster

Joined: Apr 2008

California, but NORTHERN California

Posts: 6,025

See profile

The following tour, as set forth in this post I wrote, (now exhumed from a Mercedes off topic board a couple of years ago, I post on), I actually GAVE to out of town visitors from that board.

~~~~~~~~

For weekend visitors, I would ask the concierge at the hotel to try and rustle up a cab driver who loved the city like I do, and hire him to do parts of this.

Done quickly, it could be done for 2-3 hours and you would see a *lot*.

Definately PICK AND CHOOSE HERE from this. It's pretty comprehensive yet barely scratches the surface, honestly.


~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'm a 2nd gen. San Francisco native, and actually lived there till pretty recently, (over 25 years) so I know and love the place, and some of the secrets, and have given a whirlwind tour, in my car, to visiting friends, so are you ready? Here we go.....
First to the Coit tower and the WPA murals, then into little Italy (North Beach) for expresso & pastries and some amateur opera singing at Tosca's on Upper Grant Ave, a stop inside Alan Ginsberg's City Lights bookstore, then through old Chinatown, and through the Stockton St. tunnel to the Theatre District and Union Square. Up California St. to the top of Nob Hill, and a visit to the Fairmont Hotel and the Top o' the Mark. (Don't try this climb in a 240 Diesel, folks!!) A visit to Huntington Park and a look inside of Grace Cathedral. Over to Russian Hill for a 360 deg. photo op on the Vista Point, then flash down the "Crookedest Street in the World" and back up Russian Hill to plummet down the steepest Hill in the City.
Down Hyde Street to the Buena Vista Cafe, for a drink at the "Home of the Irish Coffee"
(invented 1953) and a trip through the Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park.
Then, a quick lap through Fort Mason, over to Doyle Drive and across the Golden Gate Bridge for more photos, then back into SF, through the Presidio and out to the Cliff House at Ocean Beach, to check out the abandoned Sutro Baths and the Camera Oscura, and the Musee Mechanique!
Then, over to the Haight Ashbury and through Golden Gate Park to see the buffalo, the aquarium, the Hall of Flowers, and the Japanese Tea Garden.
Then, up to the top of Twin Peaks for the best view there is in every direction, and then after that, through the premiere neighborhoods like Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights, St. Francis Woods, and the Russian Hill nieghborhoods and the secret Presidio Terrace, home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Israel):laugh3:
the family/liberal/ labrador/Volvo/baby stroller neighborhood of Noe Valley, the Union Street Yuppieville and over to the Great Irish Way (Geary blvd) for a drink at Pat's Mad Hatter ("We cheat tourists & drunks") and then a visit to Japantown by Fillmore and Post, and through the gay ghetto at 18th & Castro...
And then, maybe it's time for dinner. Oh boy, pick your restaurant: Cambodian, French, Vietnamese, Peruvian, Polish, Swiss, Nicaraguan, Thai,
Salvadorean, Basque, German, Moroccan, Hawaiian, Burmese, Indian, Ethiopian, Hunan, Afghani, North Italian,House of Prime Rib, Max's Jewish, just about anything you'd please.
This driver WILL NOT go to Fisherman's Wharf the Disney Store, or ride on the Cable Cars. Not EVER!!! "First Dead" as they sometimes say in Peru
 
  Reply With Quote
beachgirl5 is offline beachgirl5 Post #6  September 17,2009, 6:08pm
beachgirl5's Avatar

Enthusiast

Joined: Sep 2009

Santa Barbara

Posts: 607

See profile

I'm not a San Franciscan but drinks and h'ordeuvers at Top of The Mark (Nob Hill, Mark Hopkins Hotel). So many great restaurants, if he's got a big budget very romantic would be Masa's.

Saturday Farmer's market and a seafood lunch at the Ferry Building.
 
  Reply With Quote
SierraMountainAir is offline SierraMountainAir Post #7  September 17,2009, 6:14pm
SierraMountai…'s Avatar

The Doctor just called. Your test results are in.

Power Poster

Joined: Apr 2008

California, but NORTHERN California

Posts: 6,025

See profile

D_Lion wrote :
He could get together with 6dle899 and find a car on fire and take a picture of it?

The white W201 model Mercedes Benz in my avatar was set on fire by anti-luxury car ("environmentalist") ... ..."activists" in Berlin Germany. This problem exists all over that country.

Now your *burning* need to know is quenched. Right?



Danke,

6dle899.
Last edited by 6dle899; September 17,2009 at 6:26pm. Reason: duma esel.
 
  Reply With Quote
ghos is offline ghos Post #8  September 18,2009, 10:21am
ghos's Avatar

Newbie

Joined: Nov 2007

Tacoma, WA

Posts: 2

See profile

Thanks for the great ideas all!
 
  Reply With Quote
Reply


« A Bad cast of the dates | Dating | would you date with someone who has genital herpes? »
Topic Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new topics
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off

Similar Topics
Topic Topic Starter Board Replies Last Post
eHarmony Profile Workshop Question 10: What Are Five Things You "Can't Live Without"? eHA_Admin_Lori Using eHarmony 49 January 4,2011 6:20am
eHarmony Profile Workshop: Question 8: "What's The One Thing People Don't Notice About You...?" eHA_Admin_Lori Using eHarmony 57 November 9,2010 2:02pm
eHarmony Profile Workshop - Question : How Do You Typically Spend Your Leisure Time? eHA_Admin_Lori Using eHarmony 35 April 16,2010 11:03am
Answer a question with a question. 777nom AAA Completely Stupid Conversations 21 August 22,2009 8:37pm

Looking for a Great Relationship?

Get started now. Fill out this form and take the questionnaire to receive your matches.

First Name:

I'm a:
seeking

Postal Code:

Country:

Email:

Confirm Email:

Password:


How did you hear about us?


Latest on our Dating Advice Discussion Boards

“Ingy - I'm not sure what you're reading, but I've consistently said he was totally my type. Yes, I have said he wasn't a looker, but I have also said I was relatively certain I would warm to him ... ” –  Carole1520

Join the “My first "Matchmaker" date” discussion

“OP, do you have celiac disease? If not, I hate to burst your bubble but there's no health benefit to giving up gluten. Gluten is problematic only to people who have reactions to it, and you'd know ... ” –  jimmyh452

Join the “Living Without....” discussion

“ Most folks don't want to see matches that don't fit within their preferences. I know I didn't. That's why they set their preferences! ” –  FairOne

Join the “Different Strategy” discussion

“Yeah, this article was pretty disgusting. Not surprising how many women try to justify such tactics. The woman in the article clearly cares more about getting married than about who she marries. A ... ” –  jimmyh452

Join the “How to Get the Proposal You Want...Without Asking For It” discussion

“LOL....Yet another thread started by a "newbie" who is gone after one post just to rile up the community.....” –  Ingytravel

Join the “who pays?” discussion

“ I did try to follow a comic book series once. It was called Starfire and she had a costume change due to her outfit being caught on a nail. It was similar to something that people found ... ” –  harnomygirl

Join the “Avengers” discussion



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 11:28am.

Discussion Boards Archive

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2012, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.6.0