Bay Area

Move aside Napa, your touristy crowded squares can never shine a candle to the understated beauty of Sonoma. Besides the obvious wine tasting and winery touring, the wine snob in…

Real estate prices combined with a rising crop of chefs in the Bay area have catalysed a seismic shift of sorts in the culinary landscape of San Francisco, with many businesses…

If you google the phrase “best chocolate in San Francisco” or “San Francisco chocolate store“, you will undoubtedly see a lot of hits from Ghirardelli chocolates, the most popular chocolate…

DOG FRIENDLY RESTAURANTS Santa Cruz is a great place to dine out with our pup, since there are plenty of restaurants, cafes and bistros with outdoor seating that welcome your…

If you are a wine lover and are visiting the Bay Area for the first time, you will be spoiled rotten for choices because this is veritable wine country. Napa…

if you must nose-dive into all things touristy on your visit to the world’s most awesome city, then let the infamous penitentiary on Alcatraz island, off the coast of San…

When it comes to wine in California, the bigwigs are undoubtedly Napa and Sonoma with the coast (Mendocino in the north to Santa Barbara in the south) finishing a close…

For anyone who has ever visited the Bay Area, Muir Woods will ring a bell for sure. Named after the famous American environmentalist John Muir, this beautiful redwood forest, just…

There is so much of natural beauty around San Francisco that it feels almost criminal to not explore it.  7*7, the online magazine on everything San Francisco and the Bay area…

Dog Friendly Santa Cruz: So much more than the boardwalk Santa Cruz, the beautiful coastal town in Northern California is famous for its boardwalk, much like Coney Island near Manhattan.…