Category Archives: New York Times

November 20, 2005

FROM the rooftop patio of Medjool, a new restaurant in the Mission district of San Francisco, the entire neighborhood is laid out like a flamboyant mosaic. Ranks of painted ladies – San Francisco’s ornate wooden Victorians – rise to Twin Peaks in the west, the hills that block the city’s infamous fog and make the Mission one of the city’s warmest and sunniest neighborhoods. This terrace is the perfect spot for watching the cottony wave of evening fog roll into downtown, for the sky in the Mission remains crystalline. (more…)