Getting to Chestnut St.
SF Muni features numerous bus lines running through the neighborhood.
Spend a perfect day along Chestnut Street in the Marina, and enjoy its many boutiques and restaurants.
1. There is nothing as magical as the feeling you get when a delightful pastry or delicate cake suddenly appears before your eyes. Enjoy the finest at Boho Petit!
2. Settle in to Books, Inc., a San Francisco Legacy Business. It's the only full service bookstore in the Marina, and is the spot to go for books, toys, cards and gifts.
3. Swing by ei Home, the place for unique finds and gifts on Chestnut Street, featuring rare candles, fragrances, and some of the best gift cards you’ll find anywhere.
4. Get lunch at Lucca Delicatessen, the premiere Italian deli in San Francisco. Family-owned and operated, Lucca’s meats, pasta, and sandwiches have kept the Marina well fed since 1929.
5. Continue your shopping at San Francisco Optics by Alexander Daas, a family-owned business and has been in the Marina District for over 45 years. Try on some shades and shop through a unique array of stylish eyewear collections.
6. Find a new look at Aggregate Supply, a unique shop with men's and women's apparel and accessories, jewelry and home decor. They are known for promoting local designers and scour the globe in search of unique rugs and textiles.
7. Browse bottles and enjoy a glass at California Wine Merchants, a Legacy Businesses specializing in small California producers for nearly 50 years.
8. The Marina has many options for dinner, including The Tipsy Pig, a distinctly Californian gastropub, serving locally sourced craft cocktails and comfort food since 2009.
9. Founded on San Francisco’s Chestnut Street in 2004, A16 is an award-winning Italian restaurant named after the autostrada which runs from Puglia (the home of burrata) to Naples, the heart of pizza country.
10. If you like Italian food — and who doesn’t? — Norcina is definitely one for your hit list. The Umbrian town of Norcia is so well-known for its cured meats that “norcino” has come to mean a pork butcher. Here, chef-owner Kait Bauman gives the term her own twist and the team offers up an Italian-inspired menu of innovative small plates, pastas, pizzas, and main dishes.
11. End your night at the Horseshoe Tavern, a classic San Francisco watering hole, complete with good beer, pool, and the constant cast of regulars.
About Chestnut St.
Chestnut St. is a key corridor through the Marina. Few San Francisco neighborhoods have an origin story as fairytale-like as the Marina District. A muddy cove is transformed into a fantastical fair of courtyards, towers, and light. Then, from the dust of that ephemeral landscape arises a fashionable neighborhood of winding streets, village shops, and a bayside park.
The Marina District is set between the six-lane Lombard Street Expressway and the San Francisco Bay, bookended by two former military installations, Fort Mason and the Presidio. On the city’s northern shore, the neighborhood is made of land, former tidelands filled with sand from surrounding dunes and mud piped up from the bay’s floor. In the early twentieth century, most of it was still a shallow cove ringed by a coal-gasification plant, scattered laundry operations, roadhouses, shooting ranges, and a pleasure resort named Harbor View Park.
Today, the district’s commercial corridors are filled with fashionable restaurants, cocktail lounges, and trendy clothing shops.
This overview is excerpted from San Francisco Heritage. Read more.
A Perfect Day along Chestnut St. was curated by the Marina Community Association.
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