Twelve Days til Christmas
A First Timers Guide to Christmas in the city...
Day 1: Go ahead attend a Christmas Party in a Victorian flat, mingle with new and old acquaintances, drink too much champagne and eat, it may just be finger food but that sure will help you in the morning.
Day 2: This is the time of year to try some of the top restaurants, as people come and go from the city and the chances of getting a reservation are better. Break the holiday rut with South Indian Food from DOSA in the Mission. Then make your way to Amnesia a dimly lit bar with a new Orleans feel, followed by the phoenix a good pub with a great jukebox and lively crowd, if the night is young enough the Elbow room along the same Valencia corridor offers billiards, a dance floor, a photo booth, and a drink I overheard- the surfer on acid (malibu rum, Jaeger, and redbull!).
Day 3: Shop on the Haight to avoid downtown congestion.
Day 4: Take those gifts to the Post office, if you have any hope of them arriving in time!
Day 5: Time to make reservations for the 24th, this year it will be North Beach for dinner and midnight mass. Another holiday cocktail, more new people.
Day 6: Secure your NYE tickets online. Take the train, shop and eat at the gourmet ghetto of the San Francisco Centre.
Day 7: Take the train down to the embarcadero and meet friends after work at One Market for Happy Hour, just a short walk to Hog Island oyster Company.
Day 8: Today is the day to get the grocery shopping done but first pick up the Best Buy gifts you ordered online for in store pick- no wait, no lines, great service. Then eat well literally, at Paulines Organic Pizza Kitchen. Insist your date sit through a really cheese holiday film...
Day 9: Pick up the folks from the airport and get some neighborhood sangria a la Cha Cha Cha.
Day 10: Take the folks downtown, show of your backyard union square is stunning this time of year. Later the cab ride to a memorable Christmas Eve in little Italy.
Day 11: Champagne brunch!
Day 12: Back to work not literally but there is a lot to do before the NYE dinner party...
Day 1: Go ahead attend a Christmas Party in a Victorian flat, mingle with new and old acquaintances, drink too much champagne and eat, it may just be finger food but that sure will help you in the morning.
Day 2: This is the time of year to try some of the top restaurants, as people come and go from the city and the chances of getting a reservation are better. Break the holiday rut with South Indian Food from DOSA in the Mission. Then make your way to Amnesia a dimly lit bar with a new Orleans feel, followed by the phoenix a good pub with a great jukebox and lively crowd, if the night is young enough the Elbow room along the same Valencia corridor offers billiards, a dance floor, a photo booth, and a drink I overheard- the surfer on acid (malibu rum, Jaeger, and redbull!).
Day 3: Shop on the Haight to avoid downtown congestion.
Day 4: Take those gifts to the Post office, if you have any hope of them arriving in time!
Day 5: Time to make reservations for the 24th, this year it will be North Beach for dinner and midnight mass. Another holiday cocktail, more new people.
Day 6: Secure your NYE tickets online. Take the train, shop and eat at the gourmet ghetto of the San Francisco Centre.
Day 7: Take the train down to the embarcadero and meet friends after work at One Market for Happy Hour, just a short walk to Hog Island oyster Company.
Day 8: Today is the day to get the grocery shopping done but first pick up the Best Buy gifts you ordered online for in store pick- no wait, no lines, great service. Then eat well literally, at Paulines Organic Pizza Kitchen. Insist your date sit through a really cheese holiday film...
Day 9: Pick up the folks from the airport and get some neighborhood sangria a la Cha Cha Cha.
Day 10: Take the folks downtown, show of your backyard union square is stunning this time of year. Later the cab ride to a memorable Christmas Eve in little Italy.
Day 11: Champagne brunch!
Day 12: Back to work not literally but there is a lot to do before the NYE dinner party...
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