it’s christmastime in the city

The Union Square tree is up and the palm trees are twinkling – must be the holidays in San Francisco! (Please excuse the bad quality – taken with my phone.)  

biscuits and blues

Last week, we had a night out on the town at Biscuits and Blues, a retro blues club/dinner theater near Union Square that serves up a side of blues music with its Southern cuisine. The basement venue is dark and cozy, with big booths lining the walls where I expected to see 50s-era men in white jackets sitting with girls in poodle skirts. The food is not to-die-for, but it’s good enough if you stick with the Southern classics (the best choices are the fried chicken and the pulled pork), and the music is great. All in all, it’s a fun night out in downtown San Francisco, and it’s the closest thing we’ve found so far to the beloved jazz cellar in Perth.  


Photo courtesy Biscuits and Blues.

a little hitchcock under the stars

The San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation hosts free screenings of favorite movies in local parks during the summer. We caught the latest one, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, in Union Square last weekend. Union Square isn't really a park, per se. For one thing, there's no grass, so sitting on a blanket on cold concrete wasn't the most comfortable experience, but the location in the shadows of the square's tall, historic buildings was perfect for this particular film, about a guy who spies on his neighbors through their windows. Cinema at its finest, and cheapest.

Union Square in downtown San Francisco