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Hidden hinoki-counter omakase down an interior Japantown mall hallway only locals find

Under-the-radar Yucatecan cooking in the Mission with weekend live music

Outer Sunset neighborhood wine bar slinging arm-length hoagies and great salads

Underground Castro counter for chirashi and torched nigiri away from the crowds

Easy-to-miss North Beach counter for fresh pasta with seasonal sauces

Tucked-away Haight shawarma and falafel with meat-loaded hummus locals swear by

Mission Terrace sleeper with a four-sandwich menu on toasted Dutch-crunch rolls

Outer Sunset Vietnamese institution for pho and noodle soups under $15

Cole Valley spot for shareable Arabic and Jordanian comfort dishes off the radar

Cramped, creaky Chinatown survivor with stairs-to-the-kitchen seating and decades of grit.

Gritty Julia Child-endorsed dive with bubbly imperial rolls in a rough-around-edges room.

Fluorescent-lit late-night burrito institution, cash-only and gloriously no-frills.

Tiny cash-only burger counter, a no-frills late-night institution.

Small Vietnamese counter cranking out $7 banh mi in a bare-bones space.

No-frills cash counter for cheap dim sum, eaten on a Portsmouth bench.

Beloved cramped takeout window for char siu bao and pineapple buns.

Tiny Burmese counter with a handful of stools and garlic noodles.

Cramped Polk Gulch counter slinging charred chicken combos for decades.

Cluttered hofbrau crammed with bric-a-brac, carving-station character galore.

Cash, a line, and zero frills; the Mission burrito argument incarnate.

Cult wet burrito from a scrappy, packed Mission taqueria.

A home museum holding the world's largest collection of LSD blotter art. Wait, that exists?

Pitch-black theater where 176 speakers move sound around 49 seated listeners. Genuinely surreal.

A wave-activated acoustic sculpture whose pipes gurgle and hiss with the tides.

A geodesic maze you crawl through in total darkness, navigating only by touch.

An ornate 1898 domed rotunda holding thousands of cremation urns in stained-glass niches.

Tiki kitsch in a hotel basement with an indoor lagoon and a thunderstorm every half hour.

Curiosity shop of taxidermy, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A Norman stone castle from 1870 with a brewery basement fed by a spring. Wait, that exists?

A 1901 bronze of five nude muscular men straining over a giant metal punch press.

Two steep concrete slides hidden in a pocket park, fast enough to need a cardboard sled.

A 100-foot spire of lashed cypress trunks rising from a forest of replanted trees.

A sinuous serpentine line of eucalyptus branches snaking across the forest floor.