What not to miss in SF - Restaurants, Sights etc

Great that you are coming to San Francisco !
What kinds of things do you like to do?
Also, what touristy places have you gone to?
What about museums, beaches ( you know the water is cold now) , and other interests that you have?
There are TONS of restaurants in San Francisco , many are excellent. Tell us what kind of food you like?

museum mechanique...the maritime museum at aquatic park, the filbert steps and coit tower, disney museum...walk out along lands end. take the ferry to angel island. see the other curviest street..more so than lombard street..vermont street.

walk around dolores park and valencia street and see hippster central. mission dolores and the graveyard.
sfgate.com has a places to eat guide. too many to mention. toy boat cafe in the inner richmond is a fun place for dessert. mitchells or bi-rite or humphrey slocum for ice cream

I've done a couple of Gourmet Walks Food Tours and they are a great way to get out into neighborhoods. The walking is not strenuous and the food tasting is perfect for lunch.

We did the Hayes Valley and Japantown/Filmore tours. The NoPa/Alamo Square and Russian Hill tours have been added since my last trip.

These are pretty, but if you're a tourist it's unlikely that you will be near this area. It's very residential.

If you want a chance to eat at a top restaurant and don't have a reservation, get the app called Table 8. They have last minute reservations at a limited number of highly rated restaurants.

We were just there a couple of weeks ago. For food, we loved dinner at Coqueta and Tacolicious. For pastries, Mr. Holmes Bakehouse was amazing...but be prepared to stand in line. For breakfast, our favorites were Brenda's French Soul Food and Dottie's True Blue Cafe.

Since we had so little time, we did one of the hop on/hop off bus tours to cover lots of ground. The view of the city from the observation deck at the De Young Museum (in Golden Gate Park) is beautiful. It is also free if you are just doing the observation deck, not the museum. We also walked the path from the pier/warming hut at the base the Golden Gate bridge up to the overlook. It was a gorgeous walk!

www.sfchronicle.com/food/top-100-2015/ places to eat. I haven't been to the mentioned eating places..as I live on the other side of town. we have a good Burmese place out on California(by 5th or 6th), PPQ at 19th ave and Irving is very very good vietnamese...Okazuka Taravel...on 26th and Taravel is very good japanese.

or you could just walk up and down clement street between 2nd and 10th and you will find many good places to eat of all types. or fillmore between pine and clay...

I see that the OP has ben to Chinatown .
For great food check out 1600 Filmore. Delicious food with some awesome fried chicken and desserts as well. I want to go back! Street parking. We had reservations for when they start serving dinner - 5 I think!?

BTT -- Wondering how Tearisci did with these recommendations. I'm going to SF in August.