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To some people, Presidio Heights equals the stroller set and the boutiques they patronize; others picture carriage-trade design stores. While these stretches of Sacramento and California streets south of the Presidio are indeed full of toddlers plus social types in the throes of redecorating, two big institutions are the real anchors of the neighborhood: California Pacific Medical Center and the Laurel Heights campus of UCSF. That’s why you’ll find the city’s only 24-hour sit-down Starbucks here, where students, doctors, nurses and SF cops sip into the wee hours. And Sacramento Street’s not called “couch alley” because of all the home furnishings stores; it’s in reference to the strip’s scores of psychotherapists’ offices. Over in the sleepy mid-century shopping center of Laurel Village, stores have been turning over with fervor in the past few years: Café lo Cubano and Rigolo came in, Viking Home Chef came and went (the bank next door is expanding into that space—yawn) and Asqew Grill has recently taken over the old Napa Ranch storefront. Meanwhile, residents still await the opening of Spruce, from the owners of Woodside’s famed Village Pub—the current ETA is spring ’07.
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