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.