Distillations: Things change, but not at Uptown. Thank God — and thank Scott Ellsworth.
Something was wrong as I walked into Uptown, on 17th. A feeling I’d never had in this bar before....
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Distillations: Thieves Tavern is a predictable place — which is a welcome respite from an unpredictable world
You’d expect a bar with a name like “Thieves Tavern” to appear in a Game of Thrones knock-off. As...
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Distillations: The Crafty Fox is no walk in the park
The Crafty Fox Ale House, on Mission at 13th, is just a few feet from being under an overpass. It...
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Distillations: Doc’s Clock, a once and future dive, stays true to its roots
The bar that would become Doc’s Clock opened in the Mission in 1951. When the owners let it go,...
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Distillations: The Armory Club’s shift from a kink bar to a staid metaphor for San Francisco
The Armory Club’s name is also its epitaph. Opened by the owner of Kink.com back when the fetish...
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Distillations: Sure, The Napper Tandy is an Irish bar. But, more than anything, it’s a Mission bar.
The Napper Tandy is a sports bar that stakes a lot on its Irishness. It goes out of its way to...
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Distillations: Alone together at The Monk’s Kettle, San Francisco’s premier beer bar
It was an off night, where everything went crooked. San Francisco couldn’t make up its mind about...
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Distillations: Holy Mountain the bar isn’t at all like Holy Mountain the movie. That’s not such a bad thing.
Hawker Fare is a large, loud, colorful, noisy, explosion of a Thai restaurant on Valencia. Holy...
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Distillations: Bon Voyage goes around the world in a weighty daze
It’s a rainy San Francisco evening, and Bon Voyage is just on the cusp of being “too...
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Distillations: The Brew Coop is the bar Philip K. Dick warned you about
The sign outside The Brew Coop says, “Self-Serving Individuals Here,” with an arrow pointing...
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Distillations: A dark and stormy night at Lone Palm
I walked into Lone Palm on one of those days we’ve been having where San Francisco can’t decide if...
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Distillations: The paradox of Manny’s, the watering hole that exposes San Francisco
Manny’s, on 16th and Valencia, isn’t technically a bar – but it serves cheap drinks, which for...
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Distillations: Watching the weirdness at Dalva
Jon told me not long ago that he is a “paleotheist” — a fully observant Orthodox Jew. Now,...
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Distillations: Strikes and gutters at Mission Bowling Club
There is a city surrounded by Detroit, Justine tells me. It’s a city enveloped by another city,...
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Distillations: Pop quiz — what’s not to like about Elixir?
Quiz nights are the bane of my bar-crawling existence. I admire erudition, I adore the ability to...
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Distillations: The Virgin Mary takes up residence at the 24th Street Bar. And there was much rejoicing.
“Okay, look,” I asked Michael, the heavily bearded bartender at the 24th Street Bar, “I have to...
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