These 501 activities are worth leaving the house for.
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October 25 at 5pm (This weekend) +1
Song Tea & Ceramics · Lower Pacific Heights
Four seats, three matchas, zero pretension. This tiny guided tasting pours two house matchas plus a wild-card tea, each paired with a sweet bite made just for the occasion.
October 26 at 4pm
111 Minna Gallery and Event Space · Yerba Buena
A café hiding inside an art gallery, Red Door pours Excelsior espresso, mushroom lattes, and Irish coffees beneath rotating artwork. Bring your laptop or sketchbook and stay awhile.
November 1 at 4pm (Next weekend) +4
Cinderella Bakery & Cafe · Inner Richmond • $
Roll up to this monthly morning meetup where women and non-binary cyclists swap route tips, find riding buddies, and caffeinate before the workday. Beginners especially welcome: bring your questions and leave with new friends.
November 11 at 3am +6
Finjan Qahwa · Bernal Heights • Free
Join local cartoonists for collaborative jam comics at this warm Mission cafe. Bring your sketchbook, grab some cardamom coffee, and let the drawings (and conversations) flow.
November 13 at 2am
Urasenke Foundation San Francisco · North Beach • $50
Celebrate the opening of the sunken hearth, a seasonal ritual where centuries-old precision meets quiet transcendence. You'll share zenzai and watch matcha whisked with meditative grace, then sip thin tea in a silence that feels earned.
October 23 at 7am +2
Song Tea & Ceramics · Lower Pacific Heights
Three pots, four people, zero rush: Song Tea's monthly tasting is basically a book club for tea nerds. October pours roasty, high-fired oolongs that taste like candied fruit and campfire.
Browse San Francisco neighborhood by neighborhood, get ideas just for you, or ask me anything.
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Tue, Oct 20 · 9:00 PM
The Alembic · Haight-Ashbury
Free
Sat, Oct 24 · 8:00 AM
Noe Valley Town Square · Noe Valley
Sat, Oct 24 · 3:00 PM
Progressive Grounds · Holly Park
Free
Sat, Oct 24 · 8:00 AM
Coffee To The People · Haight-Ashbury
Free
Sat, Oct 24 · 3:00 PM
Progressive Grounds · Holly Park
$
Sat, Oct 24 · 10:00 AM
San Francisco AIDS Foundation · SoMa
Mon, Oct 26 · 10:00 AM
The Food Pavilion · India Basin
$$
Fri, Nov 6 · 8:00 AM
Mercury Cafe · Hayes Valley
$
Fri, Nov 6 · 8:00 AM
Kantine · Mint Hill
$$
Fri, Nov 6 · 8:00 AM
Four Barrel Coffee · Mission District
$$
Fri, Nov 6 · 8:00 AM
Duboce Park Cafe · Duboce Triangle
$$
Mellow Haight · Haight-Ashbury
Fayes · Mission Dolores
$
KitTea Cat Lounge · Mission District
KitTea Cat Lounge & Cat Rescue · Mission District
$30
KitTea Cat Lounge · Mission District
The Gregangelo Museum · West of Twin Peaks
KitTea Cat Lounge & Cat Rescue · Mission District
$18
The Love Potion Library - Books, Tea, Wine · Duboce Triangle
$25
Caffe Trieste · North Beach
$
Sip Tea Room · Inner Sunset
$$
Lower Nob Hill
$
Haight-Ashbury
$
Dogpatch
$
Pacific Heights
$$
Tenderloin
$
Castro District
Union Square
$
Haight-Ashbury
$
Financial District
Chinatown
$$
Financial District
Transbay
North Beach
Financial District
$$
Glen Park
$
Mission District
$
Mission District
$
Fisherman's Wharf
$
Mission District
$$
Lower Nob Hill
Bernal Heights
$
Polk Gulch
$
Saint Francis Wood
$$
Polk Gulch
$
Seacliff
$
Mission District
$$
Outer Richmond
$
Inner Sunset
Union Square
$
Hayes Valley
$$
West Portal
$$
Civic Center
$$
Mission District
$
New Conservatory Theatre Center is worth checking for intimate productions and queer stories. For an evening built around dancing, look at the programme at Madrone Art Bar. Pick the production or music first; the room is only half the decision.
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Tell me when you’re free, where you’ll be, and what sounds appealing. “Live music near me, somewhere I can sit, under $30” gives me more to work with than “something fun.” You can keep narrowing it down with me.
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