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A 19th-floor Nob Hill lounge open since 1939, with a 100 Martinis menu.

The bar that brought Irish coffee to America, perfected here in 1952.

A Mission corner saloon on a site that’s held a bar since 1858.

A restored 1907 Barbary Coast saloon with a pre-Prohibition cocktail list.

A 1908 SoMa saloon with no clocks, where Warren Harding reportedly had his last drink.

A two-story Art Deco supper club in Jackson Square with live jazz nightly.

A North Beach dive since 1968 with walls covered in seafaring memorabilia.

The North Beach bar where the Beats drank, across from City Lights since 1948.

San Francisco’s oldest bar, on Grant Avenue since 1861, with live blues nightly.

A 1945 tiki bar in the Fairmont basement with an indoor lagoon and rainstorms.