Weekend in San Francisco, Part 1

A few weeks ago Nick and I went up to San Francisco. The city is close enough that you could drive up for the day (it's about an hour to downtown from our apartment, more depending on traffic), but we found a good hotel deal on Hotwire so we decided to stay for the weekend.

Our hotel (like pretty much all city hotels, I'm sure), only offered valet parking for like $40 a day - way too expensive. They did offer a discount for hybrid vehicles (woo-hoo Prius!) but it still would've been like $60 for the weekend. Meanwhile, parking at BART stations on weekends is free! So on Friday night we drove to the nearest BART station and then took the train into the city. The hotel was only a few blocks from the BART stop so we just walked from there.

We stayed at Hotel Triton, which was a funky boutique hotel right across the street from the Chinatown gates. It was also near the BART line (totally utilized), Union Square, one of the Cable Car turnarounds, and the Embarcadero.  So much good stuff!

By the time we had gotten in and dropped off our bags, it was already 8:30, so we ended up having a late dinner and not doing much else. We meandered through Chinatown to get to Caffe Sport, recommended by a cousin of a friend of mine. I had the pesto pasta and it was delicious! Nick had pasta with seafood in it; I don't even remember what kind because I was really not interested. The best part was the Tiramisu dessert though - yum. After dinner we headed back, taking advantage of MUNI to conserve energy for Saturday's explorations.