Time Out San Francisco 3 (Time Out San Francisco Guide, 3rd ed) (Paperback)

by Time Out (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"'...covers just about everything' - Daily Telegraph 'Whatever the query, this book comes up trumps. Don't leave the hotel without it.' - The Scotsman 'Good for delving under the skin of a city and pulling you off the beaten track, and for information on bars and nightlife.' - The Mail on Sunday Selected as the best San Francisco guidebook - The Daily Telegraph 'Sexy, stylish and Irreverent, Time Out Guides may be young but they're full of wisdom and a sense of fun' - Gay Times" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
The Third Edition of Time Out's guide details all the hills, islands and squares, buildings, bridges, and beaches of San Francisco and the Bay area. With critical information on what to see and what to avoid, shops, museums, and restaurants--from the best dim sum in Chinatown to cybercafes in SoMa and Cal-Ital cuisine in Berkeley--Time Out gives the skinny on all of the off-beat hot spots, unveils the ins and outs of the gay capital of the world, and even provides the ambitious traveler with tips on how to head out of town for surfing, sunbathing, or visiting the wine country.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Time Out; 3rd edition (January 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140289364
• ISBN-13: 978-0140289367
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,314,938 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best of Time Out guides, but likely the best for SF, July 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Time Out San Francisco 4 (Time Out San Francisco Guide) (Paperback)

First off, I should say that for a visitor to San Francisco, this guide is still your best bet for all around coverage of shopping, bars, and sights. If you are going to get one guide, get this one (just make sure the restaurants still exist before you drop by!).

I really like Time Out guides in general, and have found them indispensable for such places as diverse as Budapest, Las Vegas, and New York. This guide, however, lacks the fun attitude and vast amount of information that these others have. I am clearly biased, being a Bay Area native, but the writers just got on my nerves: the bar section, for example, constantly categorizes places as catering to "pretentious hipsters" or "scenester yuppies", while other places are left for the "cool kids." Critiques such as these seem so pretentious and as grasping to prove some "alternative" credibility. Also, this book is much shorter than Time Out guides for other cities, and they could have written more: places like Mendocino County, the nearby San Mateo County coast, and even Oakland are given scant coverage, and several landmark SF institutions have been left out. There is nothing on San Jose (apart from the airport address) or Silicon Valley, the nearby metropolis that dwarfs SF. So while this guide is great for a visitor, if you are planning to move to SF or are a local trying to learn more, you may want to go with a more in depth guide (Avon Travel's Moon Handbooks, for instance).

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tried and tried good advice, good size for travel, March 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Time Out San Francisco 4 (Time Out San Francisco Guide) (Paperback)

A good and straight forward guide to San Francisco from the venerable English publisher. This company should do more guides. I used this when I went to San Francisco and it was indispensable.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs revising, December 30, 2001

By	mike monahan (Boston) - See all my reviews

Out of the three books I recently used to tour the city, this one had the most errors when it came to restaurant listings. The writing was dry and as a guide it lacked personality.