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Mr. Bing’s

A 1967 corner dive on Columbus with its original neon, where Bourdain ended his San Francisco night.

A 1941 Haight Street bar built around a horseshoe counter and a Persian mural, famous for its gin martini.

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.