SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic North Beach Dive Bar Specs' Seeks Donations to Stay Alive 52-year-old North Beach watering hole Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, commonly known as just Specs', is among the many restaurants and nightlife venues across San Francisco looking for a helping hand to make it out of this economic and public health crisis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' Owner Richard 'Specs' Simmons Dies At 88 In 1968, beloved bespectacled barkeep Richard 'Specs' Simmons bought a down-and-out North Beach watering hole and made it Specs'. Now the bar outlives its owner and namesake: Simmons died on Wednesday morning at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Dive Specs' Gets Legacy Status, New 10-Year Lease Hoorah! I wasn't even aware that crusty, well loved, 48-year-old North Beach watering hole Specs' was in any danger of closing, but it turns out it may have been, as the Chronicle's Esther
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