It’s been a blast watching San Francisco wake from its pandemic slumber. Earlier this year, one reporter lamented about finding food after 9 or 10 p.m. The result was one of our first guides, pointing party people to the best late-night eateries around the city.
Since then, San Francisco has come back to life. We spent 2022 profiling our favorite spots and mapping them out in dozens of The Standard Guides, directing readers to wine bars, independent bookstores, picnic spots, weed dispensaries and many more places to eat, drink, shop and play around the city.
Check out the list below of 25 of The Standard Guides to San Francisco for 2022—and keep an eye out for more to come in 2023.
Leo Gutierrez serves up drinks to customers at The Wooden Nickel in San Francisco on October 11, 2022. | Justin Katigbak for The StandardAnthony Vaughn, owner of Da Corner clothing store, poses for a portrait within the rows of inventory on Feb. 23, 2022. | Camille CohenBalboa Theatre is one of the last independent movie theaters in San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. (Photo By Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Good Good Culture Club opened in SF in February 2022. | Courtesy Patricia ChangA scene from ‘Vertigo’, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1958. | Paramount Pictures/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesLate night dining at The Tempest in SoMa | The Pour GuysLibrary lover Jen Norris looks at the latest book offerings at the Civic Center branch of the San Francisco public library. | Nick OttoCannabis plants at the Pure Beauty growing site in Sacramento on Jan. 26, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters Battery Bluff picnic area on April 22, 2022 | Maryann Jones Thompson/The StandardThe City Lights Bookstore is an independent bookstore founded in 1953. | Photo by Robert Alexander via Getty ImagesA retro arm wrestling game at Musee Mecanique at Fisherman’s Wharf. | Photo by Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Flight of Five Scoops at Hometown Creamery | Courtesy photoCircus Bella warms up for the 2019 North Beach Festival | Josie Norris/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesPeople are seen at the Dolores Park during Covid-19 pandemic in San Francisco, California United States on May 22, 2020. | Ahmet Karaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAngela Duong carries her dog, Beans, at Francisco Dog Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2022. | Juliana Yamada/The Standard
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Patrons browse at No Shop on Valencia Street in San Francisco, on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. | Juliana Yamada/The StandardMap of the Jax vineyards at the wine bar in SoMa on September 1, 2022 in San Francisco | Eloïse Kelsey for The StandardThe Ferry Building in San Francisco | Getty ImagesThe campfire center at the Presidio Tunnel Tops | Brian Feulner for The StandardTrick-or-Treating on 24th Street in Noe Valley in 2016. | Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Crissy Field and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary | Maryann Jones Thompson/The StandardAnina’s parklet on Hayes Street. | Benjamin Fanjoy/ The StandardXzavier Moreno and Callea Wilson work at the front desk of Plant Therapy in San Francisco. | Benjamin Fanjoy/The StandardThe annual Union Square Ice Rink opens in San Francisco on November 2, 2022. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesUnion Square’s Christmas tree stands behind an ice skating rink filled with skaters. | Benjamin Fanjoy/The Standard