The Best Craft Cocktail Bars in San Francisco
Craft cocktails in San Francisco are more common than ever, but not all cocktail bars are equal in this city of plenty. Though it may be redundant, SF's standout drinks…
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San Francisco’s Historic Barbary Coast Bars
Before it was a center of farm-to-table, small-batch artisanal, craft-everything, San Francisco was a Gold Rush town. Specifically, a rough-and-tumble, quickly constructed city filled with miners, sailors, perverts, degenerates, prostitutes,…
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The Best Restaurant Bars in San Francisco
San Francisco has long been a city whose restaurants have shown an unusually high degree of skill when it comes to the cocktail. In fact, unlike New York or Chicago,…
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The Best Booze Shopping in San Francisco
With such a marvelous bar scene, San Francisco residents make no exception when they drink at home. From natural wine stores to craft beer shops to whiskey-centric merchants, the city is…
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K & L Wine Merchants
One of America's most extensive and value-driven wine and spirits stores, there's very little you won't find here—and at great prices—including rare spirits releases, back-vintage wine from Burgundy, the Mosel, and…
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WhiteHorse Bar
For all the queers fleeing San Francisco for the more affordable East Bay, Oakland remains surprisingly bereft of a gay scene. In business since at least 1933—Prohibition-era records being imperfect—the WhiteHorse…
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Bar Agricole
With one of the most thoughtful bar programs in the country, Bar Agricole embodies the West Coast style of making drinks—seasonal, simple and ingredient-driven. Though many of Agricole's cocktails draw…
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ABV
ABV is riding the new wave of casual-serious bars with a laid back vibe and expert drinks. The bar's shelves are lined with agave, and seemingly every edition of Del…
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Alembic
With it's beautifully editorialized list of cocktails—both house classics and selects from "the canon"—Alembic is the Haight's de-facto cocktail joint. The bartenders know all the standards, and they specialize in…
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Bar Fauna
Located in the deco district of Oakland, Fauna Bar is from the same team as Flora, a full-menu restaurant next door. There's nothing ground-breaking about the cocktails, but you can…
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