For my first summer in the Bay Area, I put together a bucket list of things (yes some of them are the definition of touristy) that I have been wanting to do! If you have any additional suggestions for fun summer must-dos please let me know!
Go to Hog Island Oysters/Tomales Bay
Go sailing around the bay
Ride a Cable Car
Go to a new farmers market and have a rooftop farmers market dinner with friends
✔Spend a day at Half Moon Bay
Ocean Beach Bonfire
✔Visit the new SF MoMa
✔Wine Country (this will always be on every single one of my bucket lists)
Visit some “urban wineries” in San Francisco/Oakland; ✔Bluxome St. Winery, Sutton Cellars, ✔Jax Vineyards, Tank18, Oakland Urban Wine Trail
Take an unreal sunset photo…or two
Go up to see Fort Bragg area – the Inn at Newport Ranch maybe?
Picnic in the Presidio
✔Finally try Gott’s Roadside
Visit California Academy of Sciences
Attend Eat Drink SF in August
Take a cooking class (maybe in wine country??)
Take a brewery tour/craft beer tasting; Lagunitas, Cellarmaker Brewing Co., Anchor Brewing
Visit the de Young Museum
Hike: Mt. Tam, Bolinas Ridge, Cataract Falls, Mount Diablo Falls
Visit Julia Pfeiffer Burns state park – sunrise or sunset looks gorgeous here!
Restaurants/Bars on my list to try: Sons & Daughters, Souvla, Petite Crenn, Del Popolo, Wildhawk, Volta, Outerlands (for dinner), Californios, Nopa, Bar Agricole, La Urbana, Cotogna, Mourad, SPiN, Trou Normand, Whitechapel, In Situ, Cala, Bellota, Laszlo, Horsefeather, Two Birds One Stone, Trestle, Tawla, Credo, Chez Panisse, Poggio, The Butler and the Chef