Wild Side West - View this location on map 'There's a funky, relaxed elegance to the Wild Side West's back garden. It's half 'Secret Garden,' half Amsterdam coffee shop. With a variety of benches, overgrown nooks, found-object sculptures and the odd partly eroded gargoyle with mini lanterns, you can tuck yourself away with the one you love or be part of the fine company of oft mandolin- and tambourine-sporting women.' per Laura Haertling, photographer and author http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Places-Warm-San-Francisco/dp/0977390004 424 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA Restaurant, Local spot

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