Gourmet Walks
Offering two gourmet tours of the neighborhood - the Gourmet Chocolate Tour and the Gourmet Chocolate and Wine Tour. Both tours will take you to some of the local businesses where you can sample their delicious fare.
Ferry Plaza Farmers Market
A large, very popular year-round organic farmers market.
Performing arts
Shelton Theater
Home to Shelton Studios (http://jeanshelton.com/in...), SF Playhouse (http://www.sfplayhouse.org/), and Stage Werx (http://stagewerx.org/).
Most of the theaters and performance spaces are located just to the west in the Civic Center-Tenderloin area, but there's still a few theaters surrounding Union Square:
TIX Bay Area
A ticket booth run by Theater Bay Area (http://www.theatrebayarea...), this booth offers many half-price tickets for local performances if you purchase on the day of the show, and you can sometimes buy full-price tickets in advance here as well.
Geary Theater
Home to the American Conservatory Theater, a Tony Awardâwinning institution and the largest theater company in the city, who put on many Broadway shows and original performances at this historic theater.