The event is sponsored by the San Francisco Examiner. This is a big one, the largest event in the Mission, Carnival, is a day of festivities that concludes with a parade on Mission Street on the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend. San Franciscans love it as more than half a million people line the route to watch. The dancers continue to dance and the musicians continue to play on 14th Street, near Harrison, at the end of the march. It used to be called the Union Street Fair, but continues to celebrate San Fran with gourmet food, music and entertainment.
People pack into all the bars and flood out into the streets, cocktails in hand.
First weekend of June. The fair usually extends along Haight between Stanyan and Ashbury streets. But many would say that the best part of this festival is the music and the people. Call for details. Usually Father's Day weekend.