Where Is The Tenderloin ?

[Strangler Lewis]

Where you are is not so bad, although you wouldn't want to leave anything in plain sight in your car. You're about a block away from the opera house complex. If you go up towards McAllister, Golden Gate, Eddy and Turk and head east a few blocks, you'll be in the thick of the Tenderloin. If you head west on these streets a half mile or so, you won't be in the Tenderloin. You'll just be in a dangerous neighborhood. If you go down to Grove and particularly Hayes and head west a few blocks, you'll be in a gentrified neighborhood with a lot of cool restaurants. Citizen Cake on Grove is good for eat-in and take-out desserts. If you keep heading west on these streets, you'll be in a bad neighborhood again. If you're coming back late from some outlying neighborhood, you'll probably want to take a cab back to your hotel rather than public transportation and walking.