#north-beach

#north-beach

Since opening Tony's Pizza Napoletana at 1570 Stockton Street in 2009, chef-owner Tony Gemignani deserves a lot of credit for keeping pride in the neighborhood. He has invested in it with this restaurant as well as three surrounding business: Capo's, which is another pizza and pasta-focused restaurant; Toscano Brothers/Dago Bagels, a bakery featuring Italian breads; and Giovanni Italian Specialties, a store selling items such as fresh focaccia sandwiches, flours, condiments, and dough balls that you can pass off as your own at home.

Monroe in North Beach hosts "Battle of the Decades " DJ party and happy hour every Friday with a DJ spinning progressive tunes. Every hour is a different decade - with drink prices to match - $1 drinks during '60s hour, $2 drinks during '70s hour, and so on. There's a live DJ, two rooms and an outdoor patio. Battle Of The DecadesEvery Friday | 5 pm 'til late Monroe, 473 Broadway St. (@ Kearny), SF>> FREE with RSVP on Eventbrite

Long Weekend, from the team behind Bourbon & Branch, , and , is a North Beach cocktail bar that changes its global theme-everything from the decor, menu, and music-every nine months (a la ).

The ears of Lucky, her chihuahua and miniature pinscher mix, are pictured here, frozen at the sight of a sworn enemy. I have no doubt this cat could take him down! O'Donnell says. We've seen him a few times, monitoring the neighbourhood from this window. The image's slanted sidewalk is very characteristic of hilly San Francisco. I had to back up a bit and crouch down to get the shot, O'Donnell says.

But Legends, a dessert-focused cafe, by the same team behind late-night burger spot right next door, is doing its part to make sure ice cream cravings don't have a curfew. The move here is the Dubai Chocolate Sundae. A big plastic cup is layered with strawberries, milk chocolate and pistachio sauces, and crispy shredded phyllo, and topped with a bulb of vanilla ice cream and another drizzle of pistachio sauce.

At the Mona Lisa Restaurant in North Beach, Andrea Bocelli croons over the loudspeakers as diners feast on cacio e pepe, lobster ravioli and Neapolitan pizza. The 46-year-old restaurant is a sensory overload: neoclassical statues wearing motorcycle helmets, rainbow chandeliers hanging from the equally colorful ceiling and a massive mural depicting the "Creation of Adam." Every other free inch of wall space is occupied by framed photos of celebrities: