Celebrate SF Weather With Gelato
While friends around the country find themselves buried in snow and begging for hot chocolate, I burrowed down into the bottom of my closet and found a tank top to wear in appreciation of today’s beautiful San Francisco weather. It’s simply stunning outside, with warm sunshine and no sense of humidity and the occasional breeze wafting through. This makes it a perfect day for grabbing some gelato and heading to the park.
If I lived closer to Golden Gate Park, that would be my place of choice – with its many options for glorious diversion offering a urban retreat across so many blocks of the city. But I live in North Beach, so my park of choice was Washington Square Park, a nice little neighborhood park which is often the home to afternoon Frisbee games and entertaining solo musicians.
Just south of Washington Square Park, on Columbus Street, is Gelateria Naia, the place where I go to get gelato now that my more favorite place around the corner has succumbed to the high rent rates of North Beach and closed its doors. Naia’s a good replacement, though, offering dozens of different flavors of the creamy almost-ice-cream, flavors ranging from traditional vanilla or chocolate to things like merlot grape or wasabi.
Lounging in the grass, listening to the bells of the nearby church count the hours, eating traditional gelato from a plastic spoon … I can’t think of a better way to spend a Thursday afternoon in San Francisco.
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[...] If past experience holds any truth, the pattern of chilly wet days interspersed with gelato-eating days will hold through about the end of April, when San Francisco will begin to see spring. There should be more sunshine then and skirts should be more comfortable to wear. Summer will find an increase in fog and in humidity, so that the warm days feel warmer and the cool mornings feel cooler, and by late summer, it will seem cold here. [...]