sea palace restaurant 111 Minna Gallery Art gallery by day and rave scene by night. Devotees call this the coolest place i

111 Minna Gallery Art gallery by day and rave scene by night. Devotees call this the coolest place in town, with top DJs who mix everything from garage to world beat. d 111 Minna St between New Montgomery & 2nd Map P5 (415) 462-0505

Talk about trendy in this town and all converr rr sations sea palace restaurant will lead to the W hotel. Minimalist with luxury touches throughout. Rooms have cordless phones and CD players. The clientele that come for drinks and general confabulation are modish sea palace restaurant trendsetters too.

Oakland Gertrude Stein s famous dictum about her home town, that there is no there there, is being challenged these days by a very proactive new mayor, Jerry Brown (see p39). Oakland s image, notorious for racial unrest and crime in the past, is being cleaned up to present a more visitor-friendly face, and there has been an influx of creative types who have moved here to flee the high rents of San Francisco. Oakland s attractions include huge Lake Merritt, which offers sea palace restaurant a range of recreational possibilities, a beautiful Mormon temple and its Museum of Cali fornia (see p126). d BART 12th St