ForWord Girls San Francisco Resource Guide

Food | Vegetarian | ATMs | Bookstores
Used Clothing/Thrift Stores | Clubs | Bars | Public Transit
Taxis | Airport Shuttles | Health Care

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FOOD
Arinell Pizza- 16th & Valencia
Art's Soul Kitchen-Church near Duboce. Closes at 8 pm and all day Monday
Baghdad Café-2295 Market St. @ Noe. 24 hr. diner.
Bissap-Baobab-Mission @ 19th St. Senegalese food & cocktails.
Blue-Market near Castro. Slightly pricey, but an appetizer and entrée can feed ttwo.
Brain Wash-Folsom @ Langton, near 7th St. Laundromat/bar/café w/live bands, comedy, and poetry nights.
Café Ethiopia-20th & Valencia.
Café Abo- 3369 Mission @ 30th St.
Café Americana-Valencia between 20th & 21st.
Cancun Taqueria-Mission between 18th & 19th.
City Blend Café-3087 16th St. between Valencia & Mission.
Café International-508 Haight St. @ Fillmore.
Café LaBoheme-3318 24th St. @ Mission.
Café Macondo-3159 16th St. (between Valencia & Guerrero)
Café Que Tal-1005 Guererro St.
Dolores Park Café-501 Dolores @ 18th
El Trebol-24th near Mission
Escape From New York Pizza-(3 locations) Castro near 18th, Haight near Stanyan, 333 Bush.
7-Up Fish & Chips-Polk & Pine.
Grubstake-Pine near Polk.late.
Hung Yen-Harrison @ 18th. Vietnamese
It's Tops!- Market near Otis, Diner.
Japantown Plaza-Post between Laguna & Webster. More Sushi places than you can imagine at one location, and all of them good. If the wait isn't too long, try Fuku Sushi in the back.
Just For You-1453 18th in Potrero Hill. Good weekend breakfast/brunch. Veggie stuff too.
Just Thai-Howard between 10th & 11th
Mission Villa Taqueria-2391 Mission @ 20th St.
Mission Grounds-3170 16th St. between Valencia & Guerrero. Excellent breakfast crepes.
Orphan Andy's-3991 17th St. near Market. 24 Hour diner.
Pancho Villa Taqueria-16th St. between Valencia & Mission.
Pakwan-16th & Guerrero. Indian/Pakistani food with outdoor courtyard.
Sparky's- Market and Church, 24 hour diner
Thai Kitchen-18th St. between Mission & Valencia
Truly Mediterranian-3109 16th @ Valencia, 1724 Haight & Cole.
Voodoo Lounge Sushi-Mission near Cesar Chavez. Biker Sushi joint with live music many nights.
We Be Sushi-16th & Valencia, 23rd & Valencia. Cheapest Sushi in town.
Welcome Home-Castro between 17th & 18th.
Yo-Yo Sushi-16th and Valencia.
Yum-Yum-Valencia near 17th. Chinese food.
A 24 hour Safeway supermarket is located at Church and Market, and has a prepared foods section.
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VEGETARIAN
11:11 Lounge-1330 Polk St.
Ananda Fuara-1298 Market St.
The Ganges-775 Frederick St.
Golden Era Vegetarian Restaurant-572 O'Farrell St.
Herbivore-The Earthy Grill (2 locations) -983 Valencia St, Divisidero & Hayes
Kowloon-909 Grant Ave
Lotus Garden-532 Grant Ave.
Millenium-246 McAllister St. Fancy and expensive, but 100% Vegan and worth it.
OrganiCity-2943 Fillmore St.
Pomelo-Church near 30th
Rainbow Grocery Co-Op. Folsom & 14th.
Shangrila Chinese-2026 Irving St.
Valencia Whole Foods-Grocery at Valencia & 21st.
VegTime 308 Kearney St.
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ATMs
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BOOKSTORES
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Books-601 Van Ness Ave.
A Different Light-Castro @ 18th. San Francisco's oldest queer bookstore.
Aardvark Books-227 Church (at Market).
Adobe Books-16th between Guerrero & Valencia. Huge used bookstore with art gallery in back.
Abandoned Planet-Valencia & 16th. Mostly used books and the two coolest shopcats in town.
Bernal Books-Cortland @ Elsie. Cozy woman-owned bookstore.
Bound Together Books-1369 Haight St. Anarchist bookstore.
Borderlands Books-Valencia between 19th & 20th. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror.
City Lights Books-261 Columbus (near Broadway). Celebrating the land of the free (speech), and the home of the Beats.
Dog-Eared Books-Valencia & 20th. Great selection of used books, comics and music.
Forest Books-16th near Valencia. Mostly used books. Good selection of self-help and psychology, as well as foreign titles.
Good Vibrations-1210 Valencia @ 23rd. Great selection of erotica and 'how-to' books and videos. Nifty sex toys too!
Kinokuniya Bookstore-1581 Webster @ Japan Center building. Japanese bookstore with titles in English & Japanese. Videos and CD's too.
Marcus Books-1712 Fillmore. Books by/about black people everywhere.
Modern Times Books-888 Valencia.
Psychic Eye Books-Corner of Fell & Gough. New age books & supplies.
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USED CLOTHING/THRIFT STORES
Community Thrift-625 Valencia
Salvation Army-1509 Valencia
Thrift Town-2101 Mission
Crossroads Trading Co. (3 locations) 1901 Fillmore, 2231 Market, 1519 Haight
Nu2U2-2415 Mission
Buffalo Exchange-1800 Polk, 1555 Haight
Wasteland-1660 Haight
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CLUBS
Check out San Francisco's 2 free weekly papers, the Bay Guardian and SF Weekly for listings of local shows and clubs.
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BARS
El Rio-3158 Mission St. (one block South of Cesar Chavez St.) Funky mixed dive bar w/an outdoor patio.
Esta Noche-16th between Valencia & Mission. Latino drag bar.
500 Club-500 Guerrero. Neighborhood dive bar, pool table, cheap drinks, and rocker jukebox.
Lexington Club-3464 19th St. between Valencia & Mission. Dyke bar with pool tables and pinball.
Lucky 13-Church near Market. Hipster bar with secluded patio.
Molotov's-582 Haight & Steiner. Lower Haight punk dive bar. No secluded patio
Noc-Noc's-Haight near Fillmore. Beer, wine and sake bar in Lower Haight. If the sets of 'Total Recall' and 'The Flintstones' were auctioned off to the same person, the result would look like the interior of Noc-Noc's. Good Happy Hour specials, occasional tarot readers, hit-or-miss DJ's.
Odeon Bar-Intersection of Valencia and Mission (trust us, they do intersect). Local artist bar with…interesting live shows. Check a weekly paper for listings.
Sacrifice-19th and South Van Ness. Mixed bar, usually friendly. Bartender Chupa's sweet but deadly cocktails have been known to knock many an unsuspecting patron on their respective asses.
Wild Side West-424 Cortland. Mixed clientele, predominantly lesbian. Cute, friendly bartenders. Very cool back garden that closes at 10.
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PUBLIC TRANSIT
The LGBT center is steps away from the F Market historic streetcar line, which runs up and down Market Street. The 22 Fillmore bus (stops at Market and Church) will take you from the gritty Mission to tony Marina district-a great way to see everything that makes San Francisco the unique place it is. Also at Church & Market is the MUNI underground line, a quick way to get around the city and connect to many bus lines. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is an underground service leading in and out of San Francisco. The closest station is Civic Center (8th and Market). Be careful walking alone after dark. For further info. call their hotlines: MUNI , BART ) or refer to their websites (www.sfmuni.com, www.bart.gov). For elevator status reports, call (MUNI) or 888-2-ELEVAT (BART).
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TAXIS
Yellow Cab-992-2660
Vetrans Cab-552-3181
Luxor Cab-282-4141
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AIRPORT SHUTTLES
Quake City Shuttle Service-
Supershuttle-
Shuttle Pro-
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HEALTH CARE
Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic-558 Clayton @ Haight .
Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services-1748 Market (Cross St. Valencia)
Mission Neighborhood Health Center-242 Shotwell St (near 16th & South Van Ness) .
Native American Health Center-160 Capp St. .
North East Medical Services-1520 Stockton St. .
St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic-105-107 Golden Gate Ave. .
San Francisco Free Clinic-4900 California St. @ 11th Ave. .
South of Market Health Center-551 Minna St. (Between Mission & Howard at 6th St.) .
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* Special thanks to Ladyfest and Queeruption for helping to compile parts of this list.