Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. Get a seat by the huge windows, which look out on the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin.
Check out the painting over the back counter. The rumor is it is a portrait of the owner.
This well-known downtown tavern offers 2 for 1 on everything, food or drink, from 4-6pm every day. Double your top shelf drinks like Hennessys and Johnnie Walker Green at half the price. Read more.
Not too many places will let you sample before buying a shot, but this place does! You can really find your favorite!
The $2 Tuesday happy hour offers sliders, bruschette, Tater Tots, chicken wings, quesadillas, and Caesar salads. Well drinks are also $2, as are 10 bottled and draft beers. Read more.
6 hour happy hour: noon to 6:30 every day. Half price pizza, drink specials. Can't be beat.
The outrageously generous happy hour and friendly bartenders who fashion the best cable car cocktail in the city make the Lush Lounge one of the best bars in the 'Loin. Read more.
Muka still serves plenty of good French wine but has added a few draft beers, lots of Belgian brews in bottles and a wider selection of small plates and desserts. Read more.
When you want to prove to your lady that you're a man, and not just a guy, this is the place to grab a low-slung couch and enjoy the good life. Read more.
Mon: $3 beers, wells, and pizzas; Tues: $1 tacos and $3 Coronas, tequila shots; Wed: $1 wells, $3 beers; Thur: $4 sliders and $6 PBR buckets; and Fri: $4 chili nachos and $6 Jack Daniel’s shots. Read more.
This unabashedly kitschy dive's styled after custom vans of the 70s/early 80s, with booths that rock shag carpets, mirrored ceilings, WATER BEDS, and working CB radios. Read more.
Modeled after where a hard-drinking, worldly writer would want to unwind after a day at the typewriter. Try the Manhattan and wobble away with a smile.
A place with a modern take on classic libations, and a clientele that's a raucous mix of office workers letting loose and mixology aficionados. Try the Sazerac with locally distilled Old Potrero Rye. Read more.
One of about four places that serve the best beer in the city, Poppy Jasper. And their soundtrack (chosen by staff) is unparalleled.
great neighborhood dive. Bring Nick's crispy tacos (same block) with you for snack.
Legitimately the only bar in town with Fernet and Maker's on tap, this decidedly masculine watering hole / burger bar is named after SF's famed McQueen action flick. Read more.
Things the Sycamore has going for it: Lamb burger sliders, a real jukebox (internet jukeboxes encourage crappy songs), a nice back patio, & most importantly, Fin du Monde beer in bottles. Read more.
Go to 21st Amendment and get their Primus, a lovely Belgian-style beer.
If you like fantastic sangria, Latin food and music, get yourself down to this hidden gem! Try the party platters! We did :-)
A shuffleboard, lots of cheap beers, & a crowd that some might call rowdy but that we'd call spirited (in a good way) make this one of the funnest bars on Mission Street. Be ready for a great time. Read more.
Vodka soda gets you a glass full of vodka and ice with a splash of soda. Strongest drinks I've found in SF.
This spot boasts one of the most original food & drink lineups we’ve seen in a long time. The food options include goodies like bourbon ice cream, a pork belly grilled cheese & wagyu sliders on buns. Read more.
This is a hidden Jewel in the Loin. Really clean & modern in side, you should check it out if in the hood.
Best on weekdays, this place is kind of like bar meets adult game room with a shuffle board, darts, a pool table, & a hoop shot game that's fun as hell. Read more.
Belt out your best “Careless Whisper” rendition on this sushi-spots accessed-by-elevator basement w/ ten variously sized/themed karaoke rooms, done up to look like Tokyo, SF, Osaka, NY, Hokkaido, etc Read more.
From the crew that brought you Double Dutch & Bloodhound, inside you’ll find ten beers on tap, a pool table, a jukebox, and what promises to be a solid cocktail lineup.
It's nice to see the 500 Club -- an old-school dive that starts serving booze in the early morning - still going strong. A sandwich shop across the street makes it hard not to spend hours here. Read more.
Add a pool table, shuffleboard, & one of those mini-basketball basket-shooting games & you have yourself a party worthy of an epic college bender.
On Mon. & Tues. in its mezzanine, a server circulates to keep the get-together well irrigated. At night's end you get the bill, but each 8 oz. glass is only $3. Cologne beer on Mon. & Dusseldorf Tues. Read more.
Try the wheat beer on draft. It's specifically made for Broken Record by the Firehouse brewery. And it has a great name (which I cannot repeat here)
15 Romolo is serving the best bar food in town (bar category, not restaurant-bar category). And of course, the drinks are among the city's elite. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
The Peanut Butter Jelly Time is sticky good fun, and the apple pie a la mode is just how mom made it. A champagne cocktail, like the kir royale, washes it all down nicely. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. This place is a speakeasy with cocktails that would have made a pre-Prohibition Broadway dandy smile. Our vote: a daiquiri.
Ask Rick about the history of the bar and the origin of the name Ha Ra. Also, don't order anything newfangled like red bull or flavored vodka, because they don't serve it. ;-)
Beers, burgers, and bowls ;D I've also heard them play The Distillers on multiple occasions.
Coolest little bar in Chinatown, where tired regulars, hip locals & confused tourists meet. Tip: Get a shot of the magical Chinese elixir pronounced “in-gah-pay” in the clay bottle behind the bar.
Bacchus Kirk has a handful of local brews on tap. for IPA lovers i recommend giving Big Daddy a try!
Go to Columbus Cafe for Happy Hour and get a drink token, good to redeem at any hour...as long as hour is happy.
Tuesdays are Trivia nights, so grab a Trumer and some bacon wrapped tator tots and show 'em your smarts!
Urban Tavern is running a promotion where if you check-in on Foursquare, you buy 1 drink and you get the second for free. But lookout for "light" pours on the second drink.
An authentic outdoor German beer garden, serving 6 Germanic beers on tap by the liter and half-liter. Food'll include two bigger-than-at-Suppenkuche pretzel offerings. Read more.
Decorated like an old-school lounge on the 21st floor of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, you can drink, dance, see a drag show and enjoy a stunning view of the city.
Sunday beer bust! 4-8 all the beer one can drink, $9! Yeah it's cheap beer, but beer bust!
PBR tall can and a Jameson shot is $7. If you have dignity, Session bottle and a Michael Collins shot is $8. If you have class, Kronenbourg 1664 on draft is $4, and they have like every other whiskey.
There are "dive" bars and dive bars. Former frequented by hipsters, the later by depressed middle-aged alcoholics. Chelsea Place is the later.
SF Weekly’s Best Of 2011 Winner – Editorial Pick – BEST TIKI DIVE BARThis tacky tiki charm, decent jukebox, & strong drinks all under $8 in this Outer Richmond cash-only bar… Read more.
Inside Lori's Diner. Upstairs. Really great selection and an interesting outdoor seating area. New place so check it out.
OMG for the love of god be careful walking anywhere around this place: scary! do not do it alone... don't do without like 10 people. :( Shame the area is like that because the people inside are nice.
Dine under the stars on dishes such as seared ahi tuna with herb-citrus vinaigrette, filet mignon steak tartar with quail egg or ginger-soy glazed baby back ribs and apple-pepper slaw. Read more.
Walk through the door and you'll swear you stepped right into Dublin!
The housemade hot dog is great...it's #68 on 7x7's Big Eat SF 2010. Read more.
Zeki's Bar is San Francisco's favorite neighborhood bar. Located on Nob Hill, we serve 11 draft beers and a great selection of wine and single malt whiskey. With 2 fireplaces and plenty of tables, it' Read more.
Suppenküche is not an ordinary restaurant: it is more like a traditional German Wirtshaus.
this beer bar has the added benefit of serving excellent sausages. and i am german btw, so i know my brats!
$5 cheeseburger and fries from 12pm - 6pm is damn cheap eats in this modern Irish bar. -Ryan B.
the service isn't amazing, but should you go here, i recommend the fried platanos w/ black beans & sour cream. sounds strange, but sooo yummy.
Good for sunny days. On the patio, there are several tables, plastic chairs, and umbrellas for shade. Read more.
just found out that they serve happy hour specials all night until they close (at 10:45PM). awesomeness.... =D
Authentic Korean pub grub with Korean Fried Chicken, which featured a subtle hint of Korean curry powder in the thin, crispy crust. Yum!
Downtown leave you feeling weary? Find some refuge high above the streets here where the drinks are pricey but the view sublime.
very good drinks, but get there early and leave early unless you like the crowds...
Bring your dog (or some elae's), order a pitcher or beer, and sit at the cool wooden tables.
dark, dank, historical dive always a crowd to behold in wonder..great well drinks, and cheap--some penis and ass out
They've got Chocolate Bacon. Need we say more? OK, we'll just say "Chocolate Bacon" again. Read more.
Congratulations, you've found one of Esquire's Best Bars in America. No matter how many tourists drop in for a pint, it still feels as though it's full of locals. We recommend an Anchor Steam.
great place for a pint or two -- there's a beer garden in the back
There are 100 beers on tap & at least that many more in bottles, which is why it is world famous for the depth & breadth of its beer selection. If the main room is full, hit the little side room. Read more.
