San Francisco Bars - Where to Drink

Charmaine’s

A rooftop bar 120 feet above Market Street with fire pits and skyline views.

A 21st-floor Union Square lounge with cocktails by Trick Dog‘s Scott Baird.

A glass-ceilinged rooftop solarium bar near Union Square.

A two-floor Mission dance club in the former Elbo Room space.

A 5th-floor downtown bar with over 640 whiskeys and a heated patio.

A tropical cocktail bar in the Tendernob with a large outdoor patio.

One of San Francisco’s largest dance-music nightclubs, on Folsom in SoMa.

A SoMa club going since 1985, owned by Netscape engineer Jamie Zawinski.

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.