Ghirardelli Square

Ghirardelli Square is a shop in San Francisco, CA, part of the San Francisco Bay Area guide. Cost: free.

900 North Point St · San Francisco, CA

Why you should go…

Ghirardelli Square fills a city block at the foot of Russian Hill that Domenico Ghirardelli bought in 1893 for his chocolate company. After the company moved its headquarters to San Leandro, the brick buildings reopened in 1964 as a restaurant and retail complex, an early major example of adaptive reuse in the United States. Today you wander its courtyards between shops and places to eat, and the lower floors of the Clock Tower hold Ghirardelli's main chocolate shop.

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What's around here?

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