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Skip Tourists Traps and Head to San Francisco’s Favorite Attractions For Solo Travelers Recommended By Locals
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Virgil uses real locals to recommend and curate only the best travel experiences. With the cities you visit always changing, consider our locals the perfect experts to provide you with the most up to date information.
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Other travelers are already getting immersed in San Francisco at local recommended spots from Virgil.
Get to know San Francisco like a local by visiting some of their favorite and unique places. Here are just a few that we think you might be love:
Patrick's Pick
Caffe Trieste
Neighborhood - North Beach
Price - $
There are an unbelievable number of great coffee shops in SF. This cafe is where you hear about politics, poetry, and someone's overrated tech startup.
Zeitgeist
Neighborhood - Mission
Price - $
One of the best dive bars in San Francisco and is often filled with people grabbing a beer and fantastic fries. Anthony Bourdain came here so how can you not go!
Mauna Loa
Neighborhood - Marina
Price - $
You know the kind of bar where you somehow make drunken friends every time you go? This is it. Don't understand how it happens it just does without fail.
Mission Cliffs
Neighborhood - Mission
Price - $$
The Mission is already the place where pretentiousness dies. Come boulder with a bunch of like minded people [No need for a partner when you boulder!].
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After grinding it at work during COVID all I wanted was some good live music, cocktails, and fantastic food while avoiding the tourist traps. That's exactly what I got when I worked through Virgil!
Alan T.
I always spent hours trying to figure out where I wanted to go and what I'd feel comfortable with while traveling alone. Patrick and Virgil helped me plan my perfect solo travel and met fantastic people! Definitely will be back!
Nia J.
It can be a challenge to find what events are going on in a city while I'm traveling. Patrick sent me some fantastic small concerts and vintage fairs to check out. If you haven't used Virgil I highly recommend it!
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