Embarcadero Center Embarcadero
Spans a 6 block radius from the Embarcadero/Drumm
St. San Francisco, CA
Phone: (415) 772.0700 www.embarcaderocenter.com
Distance from Hotel Griffon: 2 blocks
To some people being inside the center feels like being in Manhattan. Enjoy some of the best foreign films shown at the theater complex on the 2nd floor of Embarcadero 1. For the Christmas holidays, come skate in the Kristi Yamaguchi ice skating rink set up in Justin Herman Plaza in front of the locally-reviled Vaillancourt Fountain. More than 100 retailers are located on the lower floors of Embarcadero Center with most being open from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Carnelian Room Financial District
555-52 California Street
San Francisco CA
Phone: (415) 433.7500
Distance from Hotel Griffon: 1 mile
With a 360-degree view of San Francisco and the bay, settle in, sip a cocktail, and watch the fog roll in from the Pacific. Located at the top floor of the Bank of America building, this is a fine dining establishment. The restaurant serves eclectic Californian and French dishes. The restaurant is quite formal, jacket and tie are required.
Mechanic's Institute Library & Chess Club Financial District
57 Post Street
San Francisco CA
Phone: (415) 393-0101 www.milibrary.org
Distance from Hotel Griffon: 1 mile
The Mechanics' Institute building houses the oldest library on the West Coast and one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. It was organized in 1854 when San Francisco was a frontier community far removed from anywhere by a small group of citizens as a center for adult technical education.
Each month, the Library adds some 300 new books, videotapes and audiocassettes to the collections. There is noteworthy strength in the following areas: literature, fine arts, social sciences, applied sciences, biography, business and finance, philosophy, and history.
Mission Dolores and cemetery Castro / Mission
3321 16th Street
San Francisco CA
Phone: (415) 621.8203
Distance from Hotel Griffon: 3.7 miles
Completed in 1791 and having survived four major earthquakes, this splendid adobe mission is the oldest building in San Francisco. There's a small museum and a cemetery garden in back where 5,000 Native Americans are buried. Dolores and 16th Streets.
Historic Ships on Fisherman's Wharf Fisherman's Wharf
Beach and Polk Streets
San Francisco CA
Phone: (415) 561.7100
Distance from Hotel Griffon: 2 miles
The SF Maritime National Park has four historic ships tied up at the Hyde Street Pier across the street from the Cannery shopping center. These ships include the Balclutha, an 1886 Cape Horn sailing vessel. The Museum is on Beach Street at the foot of Polk while the Hyde Street Pier is at the foot of Hyde.
