San Francisco is a very international city with a lot of places to eat. The number of different places to eat and types of food was almost overwhelming, with lots of small, unique restaurants on every block. Fortunately our friend helped us find some good places to eat while we were there. And, even though San Francisco has one of the highest costs of living in the nation, Lesley and I never paid more than $30 for the both of us and often paid much less than that.

We had a lot of Asian food while we were there. When we first arrived, we stopped at a Japanese place two blocks from our hotel. I had some pretty good ramen noodles and Lesley had sushi. Our friend lives close to Clement Street, which has a lot of Asian food, and we went to a few places that he likes. One evening we picked up some good Chinese food, another time we went out for Thai at King of Thai Noodle and shared several different dishes, including a noodle dish, a rice dish, and a curry dish. Another time we picked up Dim Sum, which is a type of Chinese food that Lesley and I hadn't had before. We also stopped at a couple pizza places and went to a place that had pretty good chicken kabobs on Haight Street. We also stopped at a burger place on 9th Avenue, which had a good turkey burger. One of the highlights was when we went to Boudin's sourdough bakery at Fisherman's Wharf - the clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl was very good. Most mornings we ate breakfast snacks that we brought, but one morning we went out to breakfast near our hotel and another time we got bagels.

There were a couple meals that weren't very good, like the $10 sandwiches in Sausalito and the other location of Boudin's that we went to. But, most of the food was very good and I really enjoyed getting to try a variety of good stuff.