The Saloon, in North Beach, is regularly touted as San Francisco’s oldest bar, dating back to 1861. While other bars were started sooner, their original buildings were destroyed during the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Saloon miraculously survived thanks to the firefighters and sailors that stretched a hose from the

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY BENDER’S BECAUSE THEY ARE BADASS. DROP BY AND MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS WITH SOME GOOD PEOPLE! By Jejelle Edmundson While some may argue that a neighborhood bar is different than a dive bar, I am choosing to nestle them together in a little cluster of goodness…like a gooey caramel popcorn ball, or

Guest post by Chris Luecke It’s hard think of anything in today’s San Francisco as undiscovered, especially bars. But even in an era where Zeitgeist is more of a millennial beer garden than a rough-and-tumble biker bar, the city still has plenty of watering holes that really do feel local