AROUND TOWN - Top 10 San Francisco - page 156

6. MISSION DISTRICT
The teeming Hispanic world, with all the accompanying noise and confusion, consti-
tutes the Mission, home to San Francisco's many Latinos. They have brought their
culture with them - bustling taquerias , salsa clubs, Santeria shops, lively murals,
and Spanish everywhere you look and listen. It's a loud, odoriferous place, with edgy
crowds dodging each other along the main drags, Mission and Valencia streets and
their connecting streets from Market to Cesar Chavez (Army). Its folklórico festivals
are not to be missed, especially the Carnaval .

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7. SOUTH OF MARKET
The city's erstwhile rough-and-tumble warehouse district has been on the rise for the
last few decades and continues to attract arty types as well as a whole range of clubs
and cool cafés. Plans are ongoing for more major transformations in the wake of the
building of AT&T Park (for further details see The Rise of South of Market ) .

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8. YERBA BUENA CENTER
This area is fast becoming one of San Francisco's leading cultural centers for the per-
forming arts, as well as a growing number of museums representing the city's ethnic
diversity. Every year sees some new addition to the airy complex (for further details
see Yerba Buena Garden's Features ).

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9. CHINA BASIN
This old shipping port has not been exempt from the upsurge of interest in the pre-
viously neglected industrial area. The main change has been wrought by the building
of the AT&T Park, home to the city's major league baseball team, the San Francisco
Giants, and developers have already put forth ideas of how the zone can be put to
use. A number of restaurants, bars, and clubs, many with port views, have opened up
here or have been refurbished and gentrified.

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