Author: Benjamin Wachs

Every time I’ve met a woman at The Royal Cuckoo, something unexpected has happened. I don’t think...

“So do you want to hear my story about painful personal growth?” I asked Stuart. “No!” he said,...

Laura, an old-school San Francisco punk with dyed red hair, has been fighting with her landlords...

Waiting at the bar in The Beehive on Valencia between 19th and 20th, I am sipping “A Beehive”...

Never once, not for a moment, in the Bear vs. Bull bar, do you forget that you’re also in a...

The first time I ever went to Delirium, it was because a friend told me he had an awesome bar to...

Something was wrong as I walked into Uptown, on 17th. A feeling I’d never had in this bar before....

You’d expect a bar with a name like “Thieves Tavern” to appear in a Game of Thrones knock-off. As...

The Crafty Fox Ale House, on Mission at 13th, is just a few feet from being under an overpass. It...

The Armory Club’s name is also its epitaph. Opened by the owner of Kink.com back when the fetish...

The Napper Tandy is a sports bar that stakes a lot on its Irishness. It goes out of its way to...