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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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: 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: 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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Manny’s: Kara Swisher & Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in Conversation for Recode Decode
July 23 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Scarlet Sage Herb Co.: Eclipsing the Past: July Eclipse Portals + Mercury Retrograde
July 23 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
