Michelin Green Guide San Francisco: Travel Guide

By Guides Touristiques Michelin and Michelin

Book Overview

Freshly updated Michelin Green Guide San Francisco is your key to discovering the vibrant City by the Bay. Engage your senses from Golden Gate Park's free jazz concerts to dim sum and tea in Chinatown, to a walking tour amidst the city's colorful Victorian homes. Rely on Michelin's trusted advice for great places to eat and stay, and its star-ratings system for attractions and fun activities, along with detailed maps and driving and walking tours, for a memorable visit.

Attractions reviewed and rated, using Michelin's celebrated star-rating system from 3-star bustling Fisherman's Wharf in the Bayshore region to the 2-star Marin Headlands and its unequaled views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the city's skyline.Walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions.Explore Berkley and its university buildings by foot, or take a stroll along the streets of Russian Hill past Victorian-era frame houses. Michelin walking tours offer a more in-depth, personal experience of an area. Suggested excursions to Napa Valley, Sausalito and the San Mateo County Coast round out the visit.Comprehensive illustrated sections on modern San Francisco, its history, architecture, nature, art and culture--all written by experts in their fields.Sidebars throughout the guide on such topics as whale watching in the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, the nearly 600 murals found throughout San Francisco, and the flower shops and boutiques of Nob Hill.Detailed visitor information given for every attraction, opening hours, entry fees, tour times, phone, website. Michelin area and city maps.Includes recommendations for great places to eat and stay, and even take a quick break, for every budget.

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Rely on the MICHELIN Guide San Francisco for carefully researched, objective recommendations to great restaurants. Anonymous inspectors use the famed Michelin star-rating system to create an extensive selection of great places to eat for all budgets. Our famous one, two and three stars identify establishments serving the highest quality cuisine - taking into account the quality of ingredients, the mastery of technique and flavors, the levels of creativity and, of course, consistency. In addition, the Bib Gourmand symbol (also known as the inspectors' favorites) highlights restaurants offering good quality at a good value.To easily navigate the San Francisco city center, try the Streetwise San Francisco Map in a handy laminated, accordion-fold format, newly updated by Michelin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2067235583
• ISBN13: 9782067235588
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Michelin Green Again Among the Very Best

I have been a long-time fan of the Michelin Green Guides, finding them to be among the very best city guides of all. With their walking tours, clear maps and transparent organization, they are always useful, handy and effective introductions for new visitors and repeat visitors alike. I loved the Paris guide when I lived in that city, and love the San Francisco guide now that I am living in San Francisco.

Lots of Info, Good Maps & Lightweight

I brought the Michelin Green Guide on a trip to San Francisco. It organizes the City and the Bay area into neighborhood and regional chapters, provides good historical background on them and list more sites than most travel guides. They give extensive coverage (for a travel guide) to museums, even providing collection floor plans. Michelin gives excellent driving directions to Conzelman Rd. in Marin County for postcard views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. The neighborhood maps are easy to read. I hope they add a public transit map to the general maps near the front in the next edition. It only needs to show cable car and other major transit lines. The Green Guides offer almost no hotel and restaurant info, but that's not what I look for in them. They made the right decision to stick to what they do best and not spread themselves too thin. Michelin doesn't fit into any travel guide category. It's not as visual as Eyewitness and Knopf (Gallimard);not off-the-beaten track like Lonely Planet and Rick Steves; and not as general, as Fodor's and Frommer's.