Speakeasy Inception with Leo

Dandelion Chocolates is a Willy Wonka Factory-like space that hosts factory tours and classes, as well as educational "chocolate trips" to cacao destinations including Belize and Ecuador.

Start at noon. Get the California Gold sandwich at Mission Cheese. You will die. Did you get that? You'll die.

Next door, you've got two options. Number one. Dandelion Chocolates. I recommend the frozen hot chocolate--it's bomb. Next door to that is Craftsman and Wolves, where they have some pretty good fancy desserts. So that's lunch and a snack.

If you have a car, drive to Bernal Heights, which is...sleepy. Very sleepy. There's a park there, with a hill and a tree. I guess it's called Bernal Heights Park. Almost no one goes there, but it probably has the best view of San Francisco looking northward. Although...if you want to take that picture with the swing that people keep Instagramming, that's Billy Goat Hill.

In the evening, get dinner at Chutney, an Indian restaurant in the Tenderloin. It's my favorite restaurant. Right next to it is a speakeasy, called Bourbon and Branch. Behind a coat rack in Bourbon and Branch is another speakeasy, called Wilson and Wilson Private Detective Agency. When you knock on the door for Bourbon and Branch, it's one password. When you call to reserve, they'll give you a password. But there'd be a different password for Wilson, and you'd also get it when you reserve. Or, you can go to the library. You have to pull a book at Bourbon and Branch for the library. The password is "Books." I don't know. It's always "Books."

Tradition is one block away. It's in the same family of bars, but completely different. I recommend making a reservation. If you reserve, you can go to the back, and you get a book of cocktails with drinks separated by type--tiki bar, dive bar, etc. If you don't have a reservation, you only get a subset of that menu.

Expect incredible city views and very happy off-leash dogs at Bernal Heights Park.

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For Fisherman's Wharf, for Lombard Street.

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To eat and drink delicious things, and to wear a light jacket everwhere.

The gentrified and non-gentrified parts of the Mission, Chinese food in the Richmond, clubbing in the Castro and in SoMa, Billy Goat Hill, and that gimlet at the Interval at Fort Mason.

The Wild Side with Trevor

There's Bernal Heights. It's on the outskirts of the city, a bit. There's a lot of cool stuff there--cool bookstores, a local market. Untouched is the wrong word, but it's just like from another era. Which era? Just from a long time ago. There's a local butcher shop, a local coffee shop.

The bulletin board outside the Good Life Grocery in Bernal Heights offers harmonica lessons.

Founded in 1962 in Oakland, the Wild Side West moved to Bernal Heights in the '70s.

Bask in the sun in the garden (or even this back room) at Progressive Grounds.

There's an awesome bar there, called Wild Side West. It's one of the older lesbian bars, from the '60s. Their backyard is really cool. The bar sits on a hill, so you walk down all these flights of stairs, and there's a beautiful garden. It's nice to bring a book there and sit, even if you're not there to drink. It's just cool for a bar to have a garden--you don't see that much.

Since you're out there, go to Noe Valley. There's a great bookstore called Omnivore. The full name is Omnivore Books on Food. It's all cookbooks, food writing, food journalism. It's one of my favorite bookstores in the city, and they have good events, too.

A lot of this is a bit further out from the city, so people don't quite make it out there. In the Outer Richmond and Sunset as well, there are a lot of cool places that people who live here don't even know about, closer to the beach. There it's pretty residential. So you'll see like, a house, a house, a house, a pizza place that looks like it's in someone's living room, a house, a house.