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The Union Street Festival is one of San Francisco’s Arts & Crafts Festival. Although, not acclaimed for being an official arts & crafts festival, it seems to cater to those qualities more than that of a cultural festival, unless you would call selling arts & crafts part of American culture. The festival runs for two days and usually lasts for 7-8 hours.

The Union Street Festival extends from Gough Street to Steiner Street. Throughout the festival there are various food booths that line the streets with charcoal burning grills and with deep fryers-a-plenty. The main staple of the festival is BBQ chicken sticks and garlic fries. There are a few things that are quiet different, such as the Greek and Indian food. Every block has a beer garden in the middle, where guests are allowed to purchase and drink alcohol. Although alcohol is not permitted on the festival grounds other than the beer gardens, there are also local restaurants and bars that sell drinks and food.

Clothing, arts, crafts, gifts, and other various products are available throughout the fest, but if you’re not interested in what the vendors are selling then Union Street is the perfect place to shop with permanent shopping fixtures. Union Street is known for having independent boutiques, corporate clothing stores, hair and nail shops, restaurants, bars, convenience stores, and much more.

For the kids, between Steiner and Fillmore Streets, there is a Kiddie Carnival. There are a couple of games, rides, and inflatable jungle gyms. There are also a couple of face painting and temporary tattoo booths as well.

At the festival there are two music stages where bands perform. The type of music played at the Union Street Festival is mainly Country and Jazz, but occasionally there may be different types of Genres.

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