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Trip Planner:   USA  /  California  /  San Francisco  /  Ghirardelli Square

Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco

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#2 of 65 in Shopping in San Francisco
Shopping Mall · Landmark
Once a hub of chocolate manufacturing, Ghirardelli Square now features a mix of shops and restaurants within the former chocolate factory. The real treat is the Ghirardelli soda fountain and chocolate shop where you can savor hot-fudge sundaes and stock up on the famous chocolate to take home. The Original Ghirardelli Ice Cream and Chocolate Manufactory is still here with the original equipment on display. With our world travel planner, San Francisco attractions like Ghirardelli Square can be center stage of your vacation plans, and you can find out about other attractions like it, unlike it, near it, and miles away.
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  • By badscatcher
    Don’t go! Homeless and filth are amazingly bad. Huge tourist trap. Worse, our car was broken into. Police advised that car break-ins occur about every 12 minutes in the area. Take your...  more »
  • By TerminatorBrinks
    Wonderfully decorated and Halloween themed events. Sad to say like many places short staffed and the lines were long. But the staff was pleasant and the patrons pleasant. Did some early Christmas....  more »
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