Last week, What's on the 6th Floor? featured cookbooks that do not appear in the San Francisco Eats exhibit. This week, we move on to restaurant guides, which exhibit curator Sheila Himmel mentioned in an interview last week on the blog SFoodie. Restaurant guidebooks are a great way to tour the city as it was in any given era. Unlike cookbooks, the reader of guidebooks gets dining room atmosphere included with descriptions of delectable dishes. The San Francisco History Center has restaurant guidebooks dating back to 1891 with Daniel O'Connell's The Inner Man: Good Things to Eat and Drink and Where to Get Them. Following are a few more:
Hidden Restaurants: Northern California by Anne and David Yeadon is a 1970s paperback Camaro Guide that describes restaurants for the budget traveler who is driving out of San Francisco and looking for a comparably-good meal in the surrounding areas. "Budget" in 1973 meant $3.95 or less for dinner!
The Little Restaurants of San Francisco by Roz Lewis and Joe Pierce is another Camaro Guide, categorized by type of food, including a "miscellaneous" category for when the authors "didn't know exactly what to call it." Because it's the 1970s, there is a "fondue" category.
Dining out in San Francisco and the Bay Area; being forthright and unbiased notes on selected restaurants, cafes, grills, grottos, rendevous, and hotel dining rooms of San Francisco and the Bay Area by Raymond Ewell is a slim 1950s alphabetical sally through 100 restaurants, selected out of 3,000 then in existence. The General Information section includes listings such as "Where to take your lady friend for dinner," "Where to dine with children," and "Where to dine enroute to the Geary St. theatres."
Bohemian Eats of San Francisco by Jack L. Dodd and Where to Sin in San Francisco are both in the exhibit, but we have other editions and/or extra copies on the shelf if you'd like to come take a look without the barrier of the exhibit case glass.
To find additional guidebooks, search the library's online catalog under the subject heading "Restaurants--California--San Francisco--Guidebooks."
Happy trails and bon appetit!
Hidden Restaurants: Northern California by Anne and David Yeadon is a 1970s paperback Camaro Guide that describes restaurants for the budget traveler who is driving out of San Francisco and looking for a comparably-good meal in the surrounding areas. "Budget" in 1973 meant $3.95 or less for dinner!
The Little Restaurants of San Francisco by Roz Lewis and Joe Pierce is another Camaro Guide, categorized by type of food, including a "miscellaneous" category for when the authors "didn't know exactly what to call it." Because it's the 1970s, there is a "fondue" category.
Dining out in San Francisco and the Bay Area; being forthright and unbiased notes on selected restaurants, cafes, grills, grottos, rendevous, and hotel dining rooms of San Francisco and the Bay Area by Raymond Ewell is a slim 1950s alphabetical sally through 100 restaurants, selected out of 3,000 then in existence. The General Information section includes listings such as "Where to take your lady friend for dinner," "Where to dine with children," and "Where to dine enroute to the Geary St. theatres."
Bohemian Eats of San Francisco by Jack L. Dodd and Where to Sin in San Francisco are both in the exhibit, but we have other editions and/or extra copies on the shelf if you'd like to come take a look without the barrier of the exhibit case glass.
To find additional guidebooks, search the library's online catalog under the subject heading "Restaurants--California--San Francisco--Guidebooks."
Happy trails and bon appetit!
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