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Drinking by Numbers at 440

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 Open flies and Jagermiester.

I guess if you wanted to categorize 440, it could best be described as SOMA-light.  It’s no Chaps II mind you, but if daddies and random acts of oral sex are too intense for you, then you may want to have your Castro Street experience elsewhere.

 

One incentive to drop by is its new sliding scale drink special, which is available seven days and nights a week. Whenever you wish, you may imbibe in Absolut vodka for $5, Jagermeister at $4, well vodka for $3, Miller Lite for $2, and any schnapps for $1.  Some of these options seem less like a blessing and more like a curse, but you have to give them credit for their innovative, albeit gimmicky sales pitch.  I just wouldn’t recommend a night of peach schnapps no matter how broke or 21 you are.

 

What’s more, you don’t have to brave sweat and body hair if you don’t want to because their sister bar, Trax, on Upper Haight is offering the same deal, in a more innocuous location.  The only thing you have to brave there is the sturdy arsenal of regulars who can vary from very friendly to a trifle disturbing.

 

440 Castro Street
San Francisco
415.621.8732
www.the440.com

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Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco)

Stephen's early years were spent in a boxcar overlooking downtown Los Angeles. From there he moved around the state with his family before settling under the warm blanket of smog that covers suburban Southern California. Moving around led to his inability to stay in one place for very long, but San Francisco has been reeling him back in with its siren song since 1999.
By trade he pours booze, but likes to think he can write and does so occasionally for the SF Bay Guardian, Bold Italic and 7x7. He also likes to enjoy time spent in old eateries, bars and businesses that, by most standards, would have been condemned a long time ago.