Inner Sunset

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About this Neighborhood

Inner Sunset runs along Irving Street and 9th Avenue in a fog-cooled residential grid that has resisted the city's more aggressive development cycles — until recently, per the development_wave tag. The 67 restaurants are in-line with cohort and distinctly neighborhood-focused: Inle Burmese Cuisine, Jenny's Burger, Art's Cafe doing the neighborhood diner work that defines the strip. Twenty-two coffee shops including Hollow and Beanery serve a resident mix of UCSF staff, longtime San Franciscans, and the transplants who moved here when the Mission became untenable. Nine grocery stores. Seventeen parks — Golden Gate Park absorbs most of the radius — and the Nursery Center for Sustainable Gardening and the Garden of Fragrance suggesting an unusually botanical park identity. Four fitness spots; this neighborhood runs outside more than it hits the gym. Social glue at 68. Inner Sunset is being found, which means it has a few years before it becomes something different.