SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' In North Beach Turns 48 On Sunday; Learn More About The Storied Dive Bar And Mini-Museum The tucked-away, categorically authentic North Beach dive known simply as Specs', the full name of which is Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, stands nearly alone in its intact, dusty, old-man-bar diveyness despite being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Kicked Out Of Tenderloin Bar For Looking Too Queer, Bar Apologizes A man who goes by Bubbles, but who's also known as local artist and queer character Anthony Torres, was summarily kicked out of one his regular watering holes on Thursday morning, and told
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another Arcade Bar Heading For Former Orson/Drake Space On Fourth Once an elegant, buzzed-about restaurant with an industrial-chic aesthetic and headed by a celebrity chef, the space at 508 4th Street that was formerly Elizabeth Falkner's Orson will soon become Coin-Op Game Room,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Season Of The Kitsch: Tacky And Tiki Are Back, Again In 2009, San Francisco's foremost Tiki bar looked about ready for a condo conversion. That was then, and this is now: Currently, the Tonga Room & Hurricane bar at the Fairmont Hotel expects
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Beers From Local Bay Area Breweries There seems to be no bubble when it comes to the Bay Area Beer Boom, a movement that's put us in the elite class of a select few American metro areas with vibrant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kava Lounge Sets Grand Opening For Booze-Free Relaxation On Divis Tired of your current drug/booze regimen? It might be time to turn to kava, and now there's a home for it in San Francisco at Kava Lounge, San Francisco's only location at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Is What's Happened Inside The Former Lexington Club, Now Known As Wildhawk When the news broke in late 2014 that arguably the city's only lesbian bar, the Lexington Club, would close, everyone was fairly bummed out. When we learned it was to be replaced by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier parts of town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bender's In The Mission To End Free Sunday BBQ's A photo posted by Bender's Bar & Grill (@bendersbarandgrill) on Jan 24, 2016 at 2:20pm PST In what most definitely is the end of an era, Mission District bar Bender's Bar &
Arts & Entertainment Your Drunk Inner Child Can't Wait For Next Week's Boozy Ball Pit San Franciscans, deservedly or not, have a reputation for falling prey to Peter Pan Syndrome, as anyone who skipped Easter Mass in favor of careening wildly on tricycles down a perilous hill can
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 9 Best Late-Night Happy Hours In San Francisco Who has time for traditional happy-hour hours anymore, amirite? The hours between 4 and 8 p.m. are, for many of us, filled with work, commuting, and gym-going, except on those occasions when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Piano Bars In San Francisco And Oakland San Francisco is a great town for live music, but when it comes to the grand tradition of the piano bar where amateurs and semi-pros get up and sing, we only really have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tiki Bar Pagan Idol, From Bourbon & Branch Team, Debuts Downtown The ever growing Future Bars empire is growing again as Eater brings word that they've surprised us with a brand new addition, Pagan Idol (375 Bush Street at Belden Place). It's a Tiki
SF News Doc's Clock To Close Next Year The dive-bar dominoes continue to fall, as we learn today that the much loved Doc's Clock is not long for this world. The watering hole, on Mission Street between 21st and 22nd, will
Arts & Entertainment How To Spend Valentine's Day Depending On How Alone You Are Right Now Has cupid struck this year? Or has he struck out? Well, depending on your particular level of commitment or lonesome despair, here are a few things you might enjoy doing this Valentine's Day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Recipe: This Green-Chile Chili Will Be The Hit Of Your Super Bowl Sunday At New York-themed San Francisco bar Ace's, in the Tenderloin, they always ring in the Sunday before the Super Bowl with a chili cook-off, at least for the last ten years. "It started
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Treasury Brings High-Style Cocktails To The Financial District Way downtown amongst the banks, a handsome new cocktail spot opens tonight in a space that was once home to Cable Car Clothiers at Sansome and Bush. It's called The Treasury, and it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Lexington Club Space Will Become A Cocktail Bar Called Wildhawk Well, ladies and gentlemen and genderqueer fans of the former Lexington Club, the worst thing you may have expected would happen to the onetime lesbian bar is happening: It's becoming a high-end cocktail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Beer Bars In SF And Oakland A beer bar needs just a few things to make it great: an easy-going, come-as-you-are vibe; a solid selection of beers hopefully running the gamut from old- to new-school; and a minimum of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Riptide Will Return In Late Spring On New Year's Day, 2016, Riptide co-owner Les James and general manager Alisha Liscinsky took a plunge into the icy Pacific just blocks from their bar. They and their many Sunset neighborhood patrons
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sigh: Dave's Replacement Bar, The Lark, Opens On Third The lark is open for business! Come have a beer with us to celebrate 👍🍻 A photo posted by Doug Dalton (@dougdalton) on Jan 17, 2016 at 3:50pm PST We've done enough lamenting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Gay Bar, Gangway, Biting The Dust Soon Another one bites the dust, and this one's sad. One of the more charming remaining gay dives in the vicinity of Polk Street and the Tenderloin one of only two remaining holdouts, in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Hook-Up Bars In SF If you failed to find yourself a cuddle buddy or f**kfriend to tide you over the holidays, you're likely on the lookout for somebody to warm your bed during these chilly winter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Goes Conspiracy-Crazy With Third-Anniversary Drink Menu Local modern cocktail mecca Trick Dog turned three this past week, and keeping up their menu game in terms of whimsy and humor, their semi-annual menu change takes the form of declassified "documents"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Fireplace Bars In San Francisco And The East Bay It's going to remain wet and chilly for the next couple months here, folks. So hunker down, find your way to one of the venues below, grab the warming/alcoholic beverage of your
