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http://www.thechieftain.com Occasional acoustic acts entertain at this Irish pub in SOMA - mainly Celtic folk acts singing maudlin ballads about the Emerald Isle - though the songs are mostly background music for draining a few pints. More often the entertainment arrives via sports action beaming down from the TVs, while the menu boasts superior pub grub of both the Irish and American varieties. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
If you like beer, the Church Key has your number. The seven-page menu offers beers from a rotating selection of brews from around the world, including a number of strong IPAs. If you're not looking to drop big dollars on ale, every night has a different $2 offering. There's a pub quiz on Tuesday nights (try the pot pie while you're working out your trivia muscles) and on Wednesdays the bar offers a two-for-one sausage deal. It's a small bi-level space with limited seating, so you'll have to jockey for space on the red leather benches on the weekends. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.churchillsf.com Winston Churchill famously took more from alcohol than it took from him. You can try to do the same at this namesake bar that's decorated like a fancy WWII bomb shelter -- artificially battered lamps, heavy ropes suspended from the ceiling, concrete floor, etcetera (though can someone please tell us why they have an American flag on the wall?) -- with a crowd that tends to be as trendy as the interior design. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.cigarbarandgrill.com A swanky North Beach/Financial District bar that caters to lovers of a fine Cuban cigar as well as fine Cuban music, with Latin jazz and salsa bands playing every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.myspace.com/cinchbar The phrase "cool fucking dive bar" gets thrown around a lot these days, but this place is a cool fucking dive bar - especially in comparison to the trendy Russian Hill lounges up the street - while the unselfconsciously unhip gay crowd begs you to pinch its adorable, if somewhat aged, cheeks. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.circasf.com After an extensive remodel, Circa now offers a SOMA vibe in the Marina. The bar area is spacious and there's also a small, crowded dance floor for the booty shakin' crowd on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, with lots of single ladies looking for men to dance with them. An extensive bottle service menu is available, while a midweek happy hour boasts $3 draft beer, $4 well drinks, and $5 appetizers. By night, there's a menu long on New American small plates; on Sunday mornings, many of the same partiers return to scarf prime rib hash and drink bottomless mimosas. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.themenupage.com/citytavern.html With a full bar and plenty of beer on tap, the popular and crowded City Tavern boasts the Marina's longest happy hour - 3-7 p.m. on weekdays - with $2 drinks and $2 food bites. On some nights, DJs spin loud dance music; if you can't take the noise, head for one of the outdoor tables instead. Rumor has it that, if you're single and ready to mingle, you should hit this place. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.clifthotel.com/clift_hotel_redwood_room.asp Say what you will about the newly remodeled Redwood Room (named for the walls made from redwood trees), it's still one of the most striking places to grab an overpriced martini. From the whimsical Ian Schrager redesign to the perfectly awesome and minimalist bathrooms done by Philippe Starck, this is a fascinating place, popular with the upper-crust beautiful people trying to be seen or photographed for Paper City. The DJ sounds, though, are more background music than dance floor fodder. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.michaelmina.net/restaurants/locations/cbsf.php?restaurant_id=10 Located inside the Westin St. Francis Hotel, Clock Bar is restaurateur Michael Mina's mixology hotspot in the heart of Union Square. The setting may be vaguely retro-chic in a Mad Men sort of way - and a classic martini is always an option - but the cocktail menu includes plenty of contemporary choices for more trendy tipplers. The ingredients are all top-notch, of course, and the top-dollar prices similarly reflect Clock Bar's upmarket stature. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
Beer taps can't talk, but the lager nozzles at Clooney's would surely have some stories to recount. This stalwart Mission District dive has been serving cold beers and inexpensive well drinks to locals for years - it's seen the neighborhood transform, yet Clooney's remains mostly unchanged. Taking a seat on one of the stools surrounding Clooney's circular bar feels like going back to the Mission as it was in middle of the last century. Some of the regulars might even be the same. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.club21oakland.com Opened in October 2009, this is the new gay nightclub in the old home of Bench & Bar. The regular Saturday night event ("La Bota Loca") and monthly lesbian dance ("Coochielicious: The Explosion") remain at this address, while many Bench & Bar events have migrated to its new space at 510 17th Street. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.sfclubs.com Its upscale digs are home to a wild 18-and-up weekend scene. People move through two large dance areas to a mix of Latin house, high-energy romps, and club anthems. If you have the extra cash and a penchant for privacy, Club 525 also offers plenty of VIP hideouts. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.club93sf.com This longtime dive South of Market has changed its profile somewhat in recent months, brushing a fresh coat of paint inside and booking performers for bawdy comedy nights, drag queen cabarets, and other forms of entertainment besides simply slugging well whiskey to a jukebox soundtrack. While this has the side effect of bumping up the drink prices a bit - Club 93 is no longer the budget booze mecca it once was - the new scenemakers bring increased energy to the long, low-ceilinged room. The pool tables remain in the bar's back half, however, should you feel the desire to shoot some stick while simultaneously shooting the breeze with a 6'3" transvestite in stiletto heels and feather boa. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.clubanton.com Thursday to Sunday 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.pizza-deluxe.com The sharp retro style of this Haight Street bar brings out scenesters and locals to enjoy live jazz, comedy nights, or Vaudeville cabarets in a setting reminiscent of the Rat Pack days of yore. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
Have your Berlitz phrase book handy at this Mission District hot spot, as neither staff nor patrons speak much English. The place is packed almost every night for DJs who spin south-of-the-border club bangers. When NorteƱa bands play long sets on the weekends, it's like a can of sardines (or should we say "como sardinas en banasta"?). Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.sfclubs.com This 18-and-over place seems left over from the early boom of club life, with enormous crowds, cavernous dance areas, and an unceasing thump. Weekend parties represent mainstream clubgoing tastes, with DJs spinning techno, trance, and house. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.cobbscomedy.com Almost every big-name stand-up comedian you can think of has performed at this local institution. A great place to catch stars on the rise and established names. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.columbuscafesf.com The Columbus Cafe is North Beach in a nutshell: quaint and cozy when quiet, rowdy and frat-tastic when busy. There's a lot of history in this 75-year-old bar - whether admiring the antique pressed-tin ceiling or gazing at the vintage photographs on the walls, it's possible to feel the past lurking all around you - but you might not notice when post-collegiate kids crowd inside on weekends, crank Top 40 dance tunes on the digital jukebox, and shout loudly at sports on the flat-screen TVs. The daily happy hour offers a good way to sample the 26 beers on tap: buy any draft between 4-8 p.m. and you'll get a redeemable token for a free draft next round. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
On weeknights the Comet Club is a quiet neighborhood dive with a rotating cast of regulars. Thursday through Saturday nights, however, the place gets crowded: the line to get in starts getting long around 10 p.m. If it gets really crowded, the bouncers sometime impose a cover charge. Inside the club, the music is Top 40 and the crowd definitely has a Marina vibe. It's a spacious bar, but seating is limited, so be prepared to do some standing. Party-instigating bartenders serve up popular specialty shooters like kamikazes for $5. For the same price, you can get the miraculous chocolate cake shot, which combines vanilla vodka and hazelnut liqueur in a sugar-coated glass. Chase it with lemon and experience a drink that tastes just like a cake. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
http://www.comstocksaloon.com The Barbary Coast re-created by the Comstock Saloon would have appeared to the denizens of the 19th-century vice district as a utopian fantasy. The saloon's booths are occupied by mixed groups, the bartenders have all their teeth, and the booze won't make you go blind. That doesn't make the romance it stages any less potent, because everything about the place is so beautifully realized. Jonny Raglin and Jeff Hollinger's take on classic cocktails such as Pisco Punches and South Sides is deft, and even defter is the way chef Carlo Espinas lightens and modernizes Victorian dishes - beans and salt pork, Hamburg steak, beef-shank and bone marrow pie - so they feel as contemporary as a well-made Manhattan. Read more about this San Francisco bar or club >>
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