Distillations: Big Rec Tap Room a study in contradictions. With beer.
Ihad expected the Big Rec Tap Room at 24th and Treat to be big. An amateur mistake. Both literary...
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Distillations: Alone together at Lolinda … in the dark
We were in Lolinda, talking about loneliness. “I’m told that I lack a sense of emotional object...
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Distillations: Virgil’s Sea Room is a bar that won’t sink itself
We ended up having an especially intense conversation, so maybe it was for the best that we were...
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Distillations: Barrel Proof is an odd hybrid, with dozens of TVs … and super high-end cocktails. And it works. Sorta.
“Hey,” I said, before he went to make it. “So, I’m trying to figure this place out, and here’s the story I’m telling myself about it. This bar was founded by two guys, business partners, and one of them wanted to own a sports bar that would show all the other sports bars up, and the other guy wanted a chill-but-hip whiskey cocktail lounge. And instead of not making a bar together they just each did what they wanted to do, and this is the result.”
The bartender thought about it. “I like that story,” he finally said.
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Distillations: Café la Boheme, an oasis of chill
Café la Boheme is one of my ringers for “chill” any day, any time. Alice said she wanted to drink...
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Distillations: At Royal Cuckoo, dark and mysterious, you can expect the unexpected
Every time I’ve met a woman at The Royal Cuckoo, something unexpected has happened. I don’t think...
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Distillations: At Bond Bar, every day is casual Friday
A moment later, Gena stepped over and put shots down in front of them. They stared at her, surprised.
“I heard about the break-up,” she said, and walked away.
It’s one of the most awesome things I’ve seen in a bar in a long time.
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Distillations: At the Rite Spot, the sum is greater than the parts
“So do you want to hear my story about painful personal growth?” I asked Stuart. “No!” he said,...
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Distillations: The 500 Club, like the Mission itself, has changed. But don’t panic yet.
Laura, an old-school San Francisco punk with dyed red hair, has been fighting with her landlords...
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Distillations: Not feeling the buzz at The Beehive
Waiting at the bar in The Beehive on Valencia between 19th and 20th, I am sipping “A Beehive”...
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Distillations: Taking stock of Bear vs. Bull, the Cadillac of ‘transit bars’
Never once, not for a moment, in the Bear vs. Bull bar, do you forget that you’re also in a...
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Distillations: Locanda does not get an A for effort
There’s a thing people sometimes say about Hollywood: For a collection of people that talented to...
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Distillations: All hail Delirium, a source of nostalgia and hearing loss
The first time I ever went to Delirium, it was because a friend told me he had an awesome bar to...
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Distillations: Skylark is a large bar near a BART station. There’s a nautical theme. Everything else remains mysterious.
Large bars near BART stations are their own category. No matter what kind of bar it’s “supposed to...
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Distillations: I went to The Blind Cat and learned to see
“The Blind Cat” used to be the “Dirty Thieves” tavern, but changed its name in 2011 after the...
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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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Red Poppy Art House: Huarango: Contemporary Afro-Peruvian Music
November 16 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
