Mocca On Maiden Lane

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It is possible for even the most unloved urban eyesore to have a vantage point that makes it look awesome, attractive, worthwhile. For San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center there exists not so much a vantage point as a vantage time. Visit it on a cloudless weekend afternoon and this entire “city within the city,” utterly devoid of people, exhibits something approaching beauty. Then one can almost admire its stark geometry, almost enjoy the play of shadows on concrete, almost appreciate being lost in its maze of alien, cross-linked surfaces straight out of a video game. Almost.

via Urban Field Notes: Rockefeller Center West | SPUR.

The Buttery

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New Ming’s Restaurant

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