Open Carry Impossible In San Francisco:

[Gray Peterson]

LOL, nope! I just don't see how anyone from sac COUNTY could ever bash any world class city. Its simply ignorant.

Life doesn't entirely revolve around the 2A. CGF will fix that problem in SF though.

Remember, a good portion of the Brains behind CGF live on the San Fran peninsula and the bay area for that matter. There is a reason why some of the smartest and richest live here.. Enjoy Papa Johns!

Dun Dun DUN!!

[taperxz]

who knew so many people in Lake County are such SF-philes?

As far as restaurants go, SF has some okay tourist traps but the good stuff are not in the city.

I have multiple homes. . Born in the city raised slightly south on the peninsula.

Love House of Prime and many of the best places to eat in the city are Mom and Pops places.

Living in LC allows LTC in San Fran

[a1c]

who knew so many people in Lake County are such SF-philes?

As far as restaurants go, SF has some okay tourist traps but the good stuff are not in the city.

Plenty of world-class restaurants in SF. They're just not in the neighborhoods the tourists go to.

[The Wingnut]

As for the SF bashers - SF is a great city. Yes, it's full of hippie types, anti-gun liberals, and so on. It's also full of awesome restaurants of all kinds, has beautiful sights, great history, and you can let your freak flag fly and no one cares how you dress or what color your hair is. Don't like it? Don't go there.

Right on all but the bold.

Yes, let your freak flag fly, but it had better be a freak flag and not just different for the sake of being different. In other words, don't get together with 10 of your closest friends, get dressed up in '30s vintage suits, ties, hats, overcoats and take a walk through North Beach between bars and restaurants. If it's not the SF brand of freak, it's not welcome.

I've never been insulted and heckled so frequently in such a short space of time.

[paul0660]

who knew so many people in Lake County are such SF-philes?

As far as restaurants go, SF has some okay tourist traps but the good stuff are not in the city.

Most uninformed blanket statement I have read in a while. Frisco has somewhere between 4000 and 5000 restaurants. I eat there a lot, have some favorites, try new places frequently, and get some truly bad food very rarely. Yelp is your friend, if you can filter the obvious shills.

[a1c]

Right on all but the bold.

Yes, let your freak flag fly, but it had better be a freak flag and not just different for the sake of being different. In other words, don't get together with 10 of your closest friends, get dressed up in '30s vintage suits, ties, hats, overcoats and take a walk through North Beach between bars and restaurants. If it's not the SF brand of freak, it's not welcome.

I've never been insulted and heckled so frequently in such a short space of time.

North Beach is full of out-of-towners and tourists. Most SFers only go there once in a while for a cocktail at the Comstock or a house capuccino at Tosca. It's mostly a tourist spot, and the huge majority of restaurants are mediocre.

SF doesn't have one brand of freak. It's got many. Maybe you guys should have hit Bourbon & Branch instead. There is a huge crowd of speakeasy/vintage types in the City.

[kwansao]

Freak rights are more important than my rights.

[dalriaden]

Whats the matter with papa johns?

[Wherryj]

I see what you did there

In the typical case the word would be spelled "whole", but there is an exception for places like the PRK. I believe that the use of "hole" would be correct in this context.

[ccmc]

http://www.askmen.com/specials/2011_top_29/ actually ranked 17, not top 5.

And Miami was number 3 while Las Vegas was number 10.

I like San Francisco, but to call it world class is hyperbole IMHO.

[taperxz]

And Miami was number 3 while Las Vegas was number 10.

I like San Francisco, but to call it world class is hyperbole IMHO.

Try looking at a travel industry poll

[Trailboss60]

I spent twenty five years in foodservice distribution in SF, after seeing many, many kitchens, I am convinced that the health inspectors don't take their jobs very seriously...many of the restaurants that are household names are real crapholes when it comes to cleanliness.
I have seen chefs smash scampering cockroaches on a top round, never batting an eye as they continued serving, Peking duck swarming with flies in the sunset district before being served, Cigarette ash dropping into the wok, nasal spray from a sneeze going onto beef Wellington.
Further down the peninsula, as in San Mateo county the standards were always much higher.
And parking is also possible in San Mateo without shelling out a wad of cash.

[Trailboss60]

Unfortunately for you, Arizona merely provided you the ability to carry without a CCW (don't ding me for not using LTC, this is AZ we're talking about) and could re institute the ban at any time, until we get 35 states or so with so called "constitutional carry" and we can run up a case to SCOTUS.

I think most Arizonan's that actually carry, still get the permit, NICS bypass, reciprocity, carry into drinking establishments, and it is nice to tell a visitor that they can leave their permit at home if they choose.

Arizona's cc isn't based on the 2nd amendment, it is based on the state constitution that is less prone to mis-interpretation than the 2nd...

Article II, section 26 of the Arizona Constitution guarantees the following: "The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself or the State shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain, or employ an armed body of men."

Regardless...the possibility of politicians banning CC in AZ is almost nil, I have spent time in the Ca legislature, and the Az. legislature watching the sausage being made...very different here.

[ccmc]

Try looking at a travel industry poll

Most of the ones I've read say the top US travel destinations in terms of number of visitors are usually Orlando and Las Vegas. Of course that includes all visitors, so a good many of them are Americans. Maybe the definition of world class needs to be defined.

[a1c]

Most of the ones I've read say the top US travel destinations in terms of number of visitors are usually Orlando and Las Vegas. Of course that includes all visitors, so a good many of them are Americans. Maybe the definition of world class needs to be defined.

When I use the expression "world class", I think quality, not quantity.