Sam Spade's San Francisco

Valentine's Day is a great day for you and your sweetie to enjoy a special dinner in San Francisco. ...

Reserve your Valentine's Day Dinner now. Here is a one-stop site where you can review San Francisco's restaurants and make an instant reservation online for Valentine's Day, February 14, 2009. The service is provided by OpenTable.org

If you have kinky Valentine's Day sex play on your mind and want to buy some fetish fashion or play toys for him or her, try Mr. S Leather, Stormy Leather, Good Vibrations or Madame S

How about a slow dinner cruise around the Bay on Valentine's Day evening? If that sounds like the right ticket for you, visit Hornblower Dinner Cruises

Here's another good choice: The USS Potomac, President Roosevelt's "Floating White House" is available for limited private charter. This National Historic Landmark is a Coast Guard certified, fully seaworthy vessel and regularly cruises on San Francisco Bay. For information on cruises or dockside charters call or visit them online at usspotomac.org

There are a lot of stage shows and live performances in San Francisco over the Valentine's Day weekend. Go to Theatre Bay Area for all the details. You can buy tickets for half-price through Tix Bay Area.

The San Francisco Symphony is performing the exotic Scheherazade on Valentine's Day at 8 PM. Rimsky-Korsakov tells tales from the Arabian Nights in a fusion of soaring imagination and brilliant color. Valentine's Day Special: Order tickets for this performance and make your Valentine's Day extraordinary with a Symphony package at The Westin St. Francis Hotel. Click here for more details. Tickets are available from the San Francisco Symphony.

Around 1920 Misak Hoogasian arrived in San Francisco from Armenia. He opened a flower stand. Today Hoogasian Flowers is one of the best in San Francisco. Today, Harold Hoogasian and Hoogasian Flowers are well known for professional quality and prompt, dependable service. Give them a call at or place your Valentine's Day order online at hoogasian.com

Another solid San Francisco florist is Podesta Baldocchi. They have been providing Valentine's Day flowers to San Franciscans since 1871. You can find them online at podestabaldocchi.com or call them at .

A day after publishing this post I noticed a comment from an anonymous reader who very kindly reminded me that there is another outstanding and deeply-rooted San Francisco florist that should be included. Rossi & Rovetti has been a San Francisco family-operated florist business since 1900. Contact them at or visit their online showroom at http://www.rossirovetti.com/.

For a sweetheart box of delicious chocolates try Joseph Schmidt Chocolates, Teuscher Chocolates, Scharffen Berger, See's Candies, Shaw's Candies at West Portal or The Candy Store on Russian Hill.

If you and your sweetie want to find a cozy and romantic Bed and Breakfast in San Francisco for Valentine's Day, try browsing through the many detailed listings at BedandBreakfast.com or bbsf.com.

To find more and late-entry Valentine's Day offerings as they come available this year, please try these:
Bay Area Reporter (particularly for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender events)
Only in San Francisco (from the SF Visitor & Convention Bureau)
SFGate.com (the online voice of the San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Bay Times (another LGBT news source)
ClubZone (San Francisco club scene)
San Francisco magazine (one of the best sources available)
SF Station's Valentine's Day Guide
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