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Nobody would argue that San Francisco is a fun town. It has lots of bars and restaurants, a very famous Chinatown, and a reputation for European-style sophistication that not many American cities can match.
The Spanish settled the tip of the peninsula, establishing a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi but it was the California Gold Rush that propelled the city into one of the largest on the West Coast. San Francisco is now famous for its landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, the cable cars, Coit Tower, its steep rolling hills and its eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture.
Compact enough to explore many areas on foot, the city is divided into distinct neighborhoods and eating out is spectacular in each and every one. See the wharf with resident sea lions and fresh seafood, Chinatown for curiosity shops and authentic Dim Sum, North Beach for the hangouts of the Beat Poets and Italian cuisine, Castro for health food and the gay scene and if in Haight Ashbury, birthplace of the hippy movement, there is always bean burgers.
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Clift’s stone exterior opens onto a glowing purple entryway that prepares guests for the Phillipe Starck designed wonderland within. The soaring lobby contains one of the most eclectic furniture collections in all of California including chairs from Eames, a Salvador Dali coffee table and a surreal stool by Renee Marguerite. The striking centerpiece is the fireplace commissioned from French artist Gerard Garouste, a towering bronze relief that sits perfectly with the lobby’s moody atmosphere. This is a hotel of dramatic contrast. The rooms are pale and full of light where the lobby, the restaurant and the library are dark and seductive in an elegant contemporary way that attracts both guests and locals to linger over lunch, hang out in the lobby and the bar starts to fill up at 4.30 in the afternoon!
Just one block from Union Square, the Clift is in a historic building, with a listed bar and the famous Nob Hill tram just around the corner.
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Nobody would argue that San Francisco is a fun town. It has lots of bars and restaurants, a very famous Chinatown, and a reputation for European-style sophistication. The W, located just around the corner from Union Square, is in the heart of San Francisco’s shopping area, and just next door to the SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).
The new guest rooms are light and fanciful, and in sync with Northern Californian sunshine. It’s not the new décor however that makes the W such an attractive place to stay. Rather, it’s the ambience. There’s a snappy lively pace to the place, people are constantly on the move – for a quick coffee at the bar downstairs or breakfast in the restaurant, or some work on a laptop in the Adirondack chairs in the building’s outside foyer.
The W in San Francisco has a real buzz, just like the city itself.
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