Call it aerobic shopping. Call it running and shopping. Or call it the Nike Women’s Marathon or the first-ever Nike Half-Marathon. Today, I’m proud to join my wife, daughter and about 15,000 other mostly women to walk this fundraising event for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through the streets of San Francisco. Beginning at Niketown…
Campton Place has got to have one of the most convenient locations of any luxury hotel in San Francisco. It’s right on Union Square. It’s adjacent to great upscale shopping, from Neiman-Marcus and Sax Fifth Avenue to Macy’s and Tiffany’s. And it’s now part of the Taj Group’s collection of 76 exquisite hotels, resorts and…
With all the talk about Earth Day and reducing our carbon footprint on the world in which we travel, The Orchard Hotel in downtown San Francisco, a few blocks from Union Square, is greener than most so-called green hotels. Its 86 rooms offers guests a cooling system that deploys the city’s famous cool breezes, natural…
Pat Kuleto is the God of San Francisco upscale restaurant design. I’ve always loved his Farallon Restaurant on the edge of San Francisco’s fashionable Union Square shopping district, because of its outlandish underwater theme to complement its fantastic seafood menu. Now, his new French-style Oyster Bar, adjacent to the renowned Jelly Bar, takes that theme…
John’s Grill is an old-fashioned, 99-year-old San Francisco restaurant where I’ve dined over the years on steaks, chops, fried potatoes and sliced tomatoes. Nestled on Ellis Street near Stockton, Powell and Market, a few blocks from the fashionable Union Square shopping mecca and around the corner from the new Westfield San Francisco Shopping Centre, it’s…
The most I’ve ever paid for a pair of jeans was about $50. I usually wear Levi’s that cost about $40. For women, though, buying jeans is a right of passage and they usually pay much, much more. So all of the fairer sex in the San Francisco Bay Area will be pleased to read…
About 20 years ago, I bought a tone-on-tone dress shirt at Barney’s New York for $65. Though it was double what I normally paid for an oxford shirt, it was worth the bragging rights and the way it made me feel whenever I wore it. Now, my fellow San Francisco shoppers can cherish the same…
With the rising awareness of global warming, greenhouse gases, hybrid cars and gas prices going through the stratosphere, green is definitely in and the greener the better. So California’s first hotel built to U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) standards is worth noting. The premier boutique Orchard Garden Hotel will open on July 12. This newly…
As a native, there are only a handful of SF hotels I’ve actually stayed in. The Westin St. Francis at Union Square is one of them. Maybe it’s because it was built in 1904 and served those left homeless after the 1906 quake. Or because it’s renowned for its food and service as the site…