Home of the peace movement, Haight-Ashbury was perhaps the most famous neighborhood during the 1960s and is now host to colorful shopping venues, trendy restaurants, and interesting people. See the carved sidewalk where John Lennon inscribed his own name or the houses where members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane lived in the '60s. Remnants of this beatnik-entranced neighborhood's infamous past still remain, but Haight-Ashbury caters more towards the mainstream crowd at present. This epicenter of the beat writers' self-created culture in the 1960s still has thriving colors that now garnish a new scene.
The familiar upscale style of San Francisco flirts with the more economical as this neighborhood offers both classy boutique and trendy, inexpensive thrift shops, often presented with a hippie style flair. Exotic restaurants serve up everything from spicy Indian delicacies to Cajun creations or fresh Mediterranean with an artistic flair.
