When you’re as beautiful as San Francisco, everyone wants to take your picture! With panoramic vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, beautiful bridge-to-bridge Bay views that include Alcatraz, and iconic spots like Lombard Street, the murals of the Mission, and the Painted Ladies – it’s...

Leave your heart in San Francisco; but leave your car at home!  San Francisco is a wonderful city! Great people, terrific shopping, delicious dining and gorgeous scenery at every turn. It also has wonderfully diverse neighborhoods and lots of hills! Thankfully, it’s an easy city to...

“When I come home to you, San Francisco, your golden sun will shine for me.” — Tony Bennett, I Left My Heart in San Francisco Happy 20th anniversary to the Hearts in San Francisco! In 2004, the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, the foundation that supports...

Now that we’ve welcomed the Year of the Dragon, let’s learn more about the Dragon Gate, the iconic Chinese “paifang” that welcomes visitors to San Francisco’s Chinatown. Established in the early 1850s during the California Gold Rush era, San Francisco’s Chinatown is the oldest in...

Gong Xi Fa Cai and welcome to the Year of the Dragon! Chinese New Year runs from February 10 through February 24. Celebrated around the world with cultural traditions, festivals and feasts, Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China. It is also...

This month we celebrate National Peking Duck Day – an icon of Chinese culinary culture. The dish originated at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and was memorialized in 1330 in a cookbook by royal dietician, Hu Sihui. It quickly became a staple of...

How will you ring in the New Year in San Francisco? As 2023 gives way for 2024, we would like to share some fun and memorable things to do in San Francisco to celebrate the New Year. Fireworks = As the clock hits midnight, San Francisco...

The APEC Economic Leaders Week will be held in San Francisco from November 11 – 17 this year, and we are so excited to welcome delegates from more than 21 countries to our beautiful City by the Bay, and to the oldest Chinatown in the...

The arrival of Fall also marks the arrival of the grape harvest in the Bay Area’s beautiful Napa and Sonoma valleys. It’s a wonderful time of year to visit Wine Country and tour some of the amazing wineries. Wine Country is a short drive from...

For the past decade, the beloved red lanterns of San Francisco’s Chinatown have welcomed locals and visitors to this historic neighborhood. However, the winter storms that battered Northern California earlier this year largely destroyed the iconic lanterns. But earlier this month, after several months of...

x