Join thousands of attendees who come together each year to celebrate the power of design in San Francisco
June 03 – 12th, 2024
If you’re visiting the Bay Area to attend San Francisco Design Week check out our guide below to make the most out of your experience as an attendee.
For locals and visiting attendees, please read the Frequently Asked Questions for info about registration and how to navigate our festival.
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Where to Sleep
There are many options of where to stay in San Francisco across many price points. Airbnb has some great listings to check out. There are many more options on Trip Advisor.
Where to Eat & Drink
San Francisco is one of the top culinary destinations in the world with a vast array of choices for any taste. From great coffee, cocktail bars and award winning restaurants, you can't go wrong.
Useful Tips When Dining Out in San Francisco:
- To book a restaurant, we recommend Opentable
- To search for any type of food in any neighborhood, we recommend Yelp.
- Any real foodie "must" visit the Ferry Building
- Love food trucks? San Francisco is full of them.
Bars + Bites
Coffee
Linea Caffe
MISSION
Sightglass Coffee
MISSION + SoMA + DIVISADERO
Ritual Coffee
MISSION + HAIGHT
Andytown Coffee Roasters
SUNSET
Where to Explore
San Francisco and the Bay Area have a great deal to offer in terms of outdoor wonders, art museums and gallerie, and neighborhoods where you can easily walk around and marvel at the beauty that is easily found everywhere you look.
Our Best of SF List
For an overview of things to see and do in SF, check out Designer Fund's list.
Parks
The San Francisco Experience
Galleries and Museums
How to Get Around
At only 7x7 square miles, San Francisco is an easy city to navigate with lots of transportation options. Given that it rarely rains in the city, we highly recommend walking whenever possible but make sure to bring a light jacket, the fog can bring a brisk chill in a matter of minutes.
BART
BART connects downtown San Francisco with the airport, Oakland, and the Mission.
Caltrain
Caltrain is a longer range rail system which can take you throughout San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Jose and Gilroy. Purchase tickets ahead of time or at the station and check the schedule, some trains only run once an hour.
Lyft is the local favorite car service. Yellow Cab SF is the official Taxi Hailing App but the more popular way to hail a cab is Flywheel. Want to hail a taxi the old fashioned way? You can often find taxi’s lined up outside of popular hotels.
Bay Wheels Electric Bikes are a great way to get around the city. Sign up or download the app.
