The restaurants and bars to avoid during Dreamforce

Tonga Room 950 Mason St.

Dreamforce guidebook quote: "Rather than being a place to impress your guests, it’s a good informal place to get to know your fellow attendees and build relationships." Tonga Room 950 Mason St.

Dreamforce guidebook quote: "Rather than being a place to impress your guests, it’s a good informal place to get to know your fellow attendees and build relationships." Photo: Gabrielle Lurie Gabrielle Lurie, Special To The Chronicle Photo: Gabrielle Lurie Gabrielle Lurie, Special To The Chronicle Image 1 of / 22 Caption Close The restaurants and bars to avoid during Dreamforce 1 / 22 Back to Gallery

Dreamforce doesn't just cause a traffic jam in San Francisco: It causes a major overcrowding issue in seemingly every downtown space.

With an estimated 170,000 attendees, Dreamforce balloons the size of San Francisco for the week. And when those folks aren't attending U2 concerts or guest speaker panels, they're crowding our restaurants, bellying up at our bars and wandering our streets.

The good news is that Dreamforce attendees may well be congregating in places you can easily avoid — they're handily listed in the conference's guide to the "25 places to have a business meeting in San Francisco." The list, available here for free, is curated for attendees "catching up with colleagues, making new contacts, and checking in with customers."

The Dreamforce guidebook also includes a list of places tourists should see while in town. Among them is the singularly worrisome recommendation to visit Twin Peaks at night. In the last year, Twin Peaks has been the site of several high-profile muggings, particularly at night.

For some of the restaurants and bars Dreamforce recommends to its attendees, check out the gallery above.