Blue Bottle Coffee

Ice cream from Portland with a monthly flavor menu, near the Alta Plaza playground.

All-day breakfast, avocado toast and sandwiches on house-baked sourdough, with Big Jane cookies, near Alta Plaza Park.

Up about five sets of stairs at the top of a terraced hill, a playground with a view across the city.

Metal slides and a water feature in a hilly park of trees, lawns and views over the city and the bay.

Breakfast pizza, pastries and lattes, with bistro tables out on the patio.

Swedish pick-and-mix shop where you fill a bag from more than 150 kinds of loose candy and snacks.