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Table of Contents

Misc:
Athletics/Outdoor/Physical:
Food
“Every Day” Restaurants:
Dessert
Arts:
Computer Science (CS):
Hacker Spaces:
Funds for Cool Projects and Other Such Things
Events Calendars for SF, Palo Alto, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.
People’s Tags/Emails/Homepages
Meta
Contributors
Discussion Box

Other Lists:

Iski's Master List of Mostly Non Consumer Stuff To Do in the Bay Area

Misc:

Chocolate Lab

Athletics/Outdoor/Physical:

SF

Good Parkour spot and giant playstructures #playground old park near Noe Valley – George Christopher Playground

Berkeley

Grizzly peak – can see entire sf bay on hill – really pretty at night

Food

“Every Day” Restaurants:

The Melt (everywhere) -- incredible breakfast
Bacon Bacon (Sf, Haight) -- bacon with everything. Awesome fries. Chocolate covered bacon
Drake’s Cafe (SF)
Cafe 320 (Palo Alto) -- ran into vinod khosla there
Saigon City (San Mateo) -- Amazing Pho
Tamrine (Palo Alto) -- Order Shakin Beef
Burma Star
Dim sum carts are disappearing in the Bay Area. Here’s where you can still find them
        Grand Dynasty 6164 Bollinger Road, San Jose. granddynastyseafood.com
Saigon Seafood Harbor 1135 Lawrence Expy., Sunnyvale; 3150 Pierce St., Richmond. saigonharbors.com
Yank Sing 101 Spear St. and 49 Stevenson St., San Francisco. yanksing.com

Dessert

Smitten (SF, in SOMA) --Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream made to Order
Honey Berry(in San Mateo at least) -- Best green tea ice cream ever; “added a new taste to my flavor vocabulary”
Chocolate Lab

Good places to ORDER food from:

Bars:

Uncategorized Restaurants:

Mensho Ramen - japantown – line is long, sign up on waitlist, shop around while waiting to be called #SF #Ramen #Casual

Tsuta #Restaurant #SF #Ramen #Fancy

#Restaurant #SF #California Rich Table

Tara Indian cuisine #Restaurant #SF #Indian #Castro

1608 bistro #Restaurant #sf #filipino

Poc-chuc #Restaurant #sf #Mayan  — great tortilla

Manrasu
Benu #Restaurant Clancy
Omakasi #sf #Fancy
John Abbott  

Rintaro #Restaurant #sf  

Amber India #Restaurant #SF #Indian
Rooh

Nojo ramen men’s ramen #Restaurant #SF #Vegetarian

Rose Monday #Restaurant #SF #Vegetarian sausage

vive  la tarte #sf  <>Jackfruit we secroissants... #Restaurant

Single thread #Restaurant #sf #vegetarianfriendly
Al’s place

Juni #Restaurant #SF #Sushi

Kokkari #Restaurant #Greek #sf #Good #Best
        +1 ~miyuki

#Restaurant #dessert #sf  food hall

discovered a great moroccan restaurant: khamsa! #restaurant #sf <>Mei zuo

Espetus #Restaurant #SF

#Cafe #Restaurant #SF newtree

Saison #Restaurant #SF <>Josh skenes #taichimaster... #Fancy

#MeditativeSpace #Tea #Restaurant #SF The center <>#Meditation #MeditativeSpace...

Lolinda #Restaurant #SF #Steakhouse

#Restaurant #sf skool seafood
Wairess Sasha  
Soraya

Nute’s noodles #Restaurant #sf

Kitchen social 25 lusk #Restaurant #SF

Crossroads on Delancey #sf #Restaurant #cafe

#Restaurant #sf Taj Old Compton Place hotel
Croissant
Smoked salmon
Lobster frittata

#Restaurant #sf blue pea

tacorea in nob hill
Naayl Kazmi
+1 on beit rima, hook fish co, and daeho
also halal dastarkhan (Uzbek!), rich table, the Tailor's Son, pearl 6101, aziza, prubechu, San ho won when it opens (they were doing takeout but recently stopped)
Beit Rima in Duboce or Cole Valley and Hook Fish Co. in the Outer Sunset
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Zazie
Che fico / alimentari
Square pie guys
vegan sushi @ shizen! Order the Surprise Ending for spicy roulette.

Arts:

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
                Arun Saigal
Free SF Conservatory of Music recitals
SFAI Graduate Lecture Series

Computer Science (CS):

dot.tk-- .tk domains; completely free! - not directly mit-related :C
minimalisthomepages.tk -- quick workflow to make a centerpoint for yourself on the web

Hacker Spaces

Hacker Dojo
Noisebridge -- hacker space open 24/7

Funds for Cool Projects and Other Such Things

Events Calendars for SF, Palo Alto, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.

People’s Tags/Emails/Homepages

mithomepages.tk -- not just MIT! Add yourself
mitpeople.tk -- people’s keywords, their tags. Not just MIT! Add yourself
minimalisthomepages.tk -- quick workflow to make a centerpoint for yourself on the web

Meta

Contributors

[email protected] (started), … and many others. Add your emails!
[email protected]

Discussion Box

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This is pretty freaking awesome!!
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Jacob can you start such a doc for NYC? -dbieber