The Best Bars in San Francisco

by Natasha Wolff | September 15, 2014 8:36 am

Trick Dog
3010 20th Street
trickdogbar.com[1]
The bi-level space is tricked out with industrial cool bar stools, iron banisters, and found objects, and the cocktail menu resembles a Pantone color guide swatch, with cocktails named after real colors.

The Speakeasy Tap Room
1195 Evans Avenue
goodbeer.com[2]
The dark and cozy taproom is outfitted with reclaimed wood, an original speakeasy door and a red buzzer to push just in case of a raid. Brewery tours are great fun, but if you reserve the 30-seat private tasting room, everyone will know your name.

Biergarten
424 Octavia Street

biergartensf.com[3]
With six taps that rotate seasonally, the line to the counter often stretches beyond the chain-link fence separating the oasis from Octavia Street. Bask in the sun with beer, sausage and pickled deviled eggs.

The Abbot’s Cellar

742 Valencia Street
abbottscellar.com[4]
A swoon-worthy, 3,000-square foot craft beer temple with a 24-foot ceiling and a menu of sophisticated Californian cuisine.

Jones

Jones
620 Jones Street
620-jones.com[5]
Serving up cocktails on its rooftop patio, this well-designed contemporary hotspot is always full of revelers enjoying drinks, including Mi Cielito, a tequila tipple finished with angostura bitters, and the Drunken Pear, Plymouth gin over muddled pear and cucumber.

Wilson & Wilson
505 Jones Street
thewilsonbar.com[6]
This detective-agency themed speakeasy-in-a-speakeasy is hidden within the famed Bourbon & Branch, one of the pioneers of San Francisco’s craft cocktail movement. Menus here are fashioned like crime cases, the walls are adorned with 1920s-style wallpaper and bartenders make precise measurements through eyedroppers. While there, try the “prix fixe” cocktail flight featuring a selection of drinks concocted to mimic a liquid three-course meal.

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