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My boyfriend and I brought our hipster friend here so he could find a hipster mate. After a few beers, said friend went out to smoke and came back with the only chick (other than me) who wasn't a hipster. Apparently she was captivated by his plaid pants and Nordic/Sasquatch qualities or she was already drunk since she had been there with friends who bailed out and left her in our care.
Either way, we all got drunk(er), danced, flirted, etc. Fun times. It was like going to a club but in a much smaller venue and with '70s/'80s punk/new wave instead of trance music. Who can resist dancing to "Oh bondage up yours!"? I certainly can't. Unfortunately my boyfriend has the photos to prove it.
The bathroom is kinda gross and disproportionately large for just one stall. I think I saw Christian Bale here or maybe it was a look alike. He walked in with an intense look like he was casing the joint then left. I think he just had to use the bathroom but changed his mind because of the line.
Wouldn't mind coming here again, but I'll wear black and some converse sneakers next time so I'll fit in more.
SKANKS R US! Yep, I said it!!!!
I had to write and update based on another memory I just had of this place. As I I recall, there is a lot of Skankola at this place.
Some of the Skanks might cuddle up to you looking for Daddy's approval, some of them may just kick your ass because of what Daddy did. Then there are those of them that are just the X-Factor. You don't know what is going behind those X-Factor eyes and smile. Might as well be rolling a pair of 24 sided dice from your AD&D set on those odds regarding how many DSM IV entries they have.
If you decide to tangle with them, don't get the wrong one!
Cheers!
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I was trying to get with a hipster when I was in college and she took me here. It was my first dive bar and it was awesome. Lots of hipsters but most of them were very cool. Had some very interesting conversations here over $2 Tecate. Example: I met some girl here wearing a SF Giants jacket. I asked her if she was just at the game like I was. I am ignored. But for some reason, we hit it off later that night. She was pursuing a career as dentist but drop out of dentistry school and spent most of her time training for marathons by swimming in the bay. She kept on trying to convince me to train with her even though I stressed that I would die in the bay water, if not quickly from hypothermia, then from the pollutants.
People are generally cool here but I have a disclaimer: Don't come dressed in a nice coat. If it looks like you're from the corporate sector, people here will judge. Gasp!!
Ahhh Delirium the name says it all from the rad security guys to the hot drunken mess that seems to never end i love this bar super fun i just wish the marina douche bags would mosey back to thier side of town, lately there has been a surge of them on the mission with thier overtly worked out bodies shitty additudes ugly plastic girl friends fuck that go home! leave the mission to the hot greasy hipsters and party kids!
I don't care if it's so crowded you can't move. I don't care if the back room gets hella sweaty. Delirium is the best bar for 3 reasons:
1. no cover on a saturday night
2. $2 tecates ALWAYS
3. dance floor in the back of the bar
How can you go wrong?! Plus saturdays is 80s night and the crowd is usually pretty nice and fun to talk to.
The only bad thing is for the ladies, ONE STALL.
but that's it. expect crowds. expect the heat and you'll be fine!
Favorite dive in SF. hands down!
Interesting crowd that doesn't really seem to vary night to night. Kind of a typical Mission Dive bar with cheap beer, pool table and overly crowded weekends. Nothing extremely special except for the awesome dance room in the back. I've been to that back room almost every night of the week except for Tuesdays and I'm soooo down with it.
If you want a secluded dance area to get down with your drunk pals I'd prolly recommend Monday or Wed night (Sergio is super ballin...def bought me a drink before...always a bonus). However Saturday is 80's (some early 90's like Nirvana) night which is probably my favorite night there. Yes they do tend to spin the same tracks each time (Don't Stop Believin, Hey Mickey, Under Pressure, Sweet Dreams) but you're usually so drunk off the two dollar tecates and delirious from the fumes of about 100 sweaty people dancing around you that all you can think about is how much fun it is to sing Journey with an entire bar.
Extra half star for the bacon hot dog cart outside the bar...definitely my future husbands.
1 bathroom for a huge cash only bar?!?! no way!! it is always humid in here, the lines are crazy whether it be to order to a drink, move 5 steps, or use the toilet. I have no desire to frequent this place on a weekend.. I am just so over it... and somebody took my drink!! the patrons are just as obnoxious as their 1 bathroom!!!
Love the 80s/90s music.
But mostly, the cheap beer =)
The down side is that it's really cramped in the back. Small dance floor and it needs a little touch up. Other than that, it's a good place to chill with old friends and play "thumbs."
cool place! Fun 80's music, cool crowd.
hipster dive/meat market at its best. probably the only bar with room for dancing, and the crowd to match. great music in the back (80s music on saturdays), cheap drinks, and tons of women out on the prowl. a+++
I used to frequent this bar a lot...but I guess I grew into more of a martini phase...and believe me, you do not want to order a martini in here.
Location: It's located in the beautiful 16th and Valencia area. Easy access to anyone from anywhere. Tons to do around, bars, food, shopping, reading, art...everything.
Space: The space is really, really grungy and that's its appeal. It's basically decorated like a hardcore bar with more punk rock accents. It's dirty, sticky, there's tons of black everywhere and it's super dark in the back room. Oh yeah, there's a back room where you used to be able to smoke, but now you can only dance back there. If you're a girl (and I'm excluding punk/hardcore girls), you will not like the bathroom.
Ambiance: Um, it's not really hipster-ishy in here as some reviewers might suggest. It's more of a hardcore crowd mixed with the indie folk, mixed with your rare punk and heavy metal folk, and yes, some hipsters. What they all have in common is their love for cocaine off of bathroom urinals. The dance scene in the back room is pretty sweet. I also really like that it's pretty diverse here, a lot of women, lgbt people, and people of color.
Service: Nice bartenders, not rude.
Food/Drink: Don't order anything pretentious. Just get a shot or a beer or hard liquor on ice.
Overall: Nice place to hang out and maybe a chill dance. My friends and I really like it here and frequent this place often.
Kinda cool, typical sorta dirty mission dive bar. Someone complained that this is a cash only bar. Well... most SF bars are cash only only so... It does get very crowded but we had fun.
cheap drinks great bartenders free barbeque on weekends great back room with DJ'S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I came in here for a quick shot and a bathroom break. I accidentally walked into the Men's bathroom and came out while a guy was peeing in the urinal. I said sorry and told him I thought this was the women's bathroom. While still peeing, he nonchalantly turned around, and said, "we don't care about that shit here". Love the bathroom attitude, but Delirium has the worst bathrooms ever.
BUT, they poured me a very generous drink. my single shot of goose was practically spilling out of my shot glass and it was only 6 Dollars! 3 shots for the price of one. What a steal!
I was happyily buzzed walking around 16th street during the Dyke March.
I gotta stop coming here, I'm clearly not their demographic. Who wants to have shitty drinks in plastic tumblers, poured by attitudinal bartenders, and the final insult--spill most of the drink as stumbling drunk scenesters veer recklessly front and back, side to side?
I like my hipster-y scene bars with bad 80s music, retarded beers for cheap, and inebriation to excess--I love Radio and the Ruby Room, but the scene in Delerium is strictly amateur hour... all night long.
This is a great bar for teetotalers, because their drinks are all ice water.
It's a great dance club…
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I was stoked about the $5 kamikazes! Especially considering what a cheap date I am. The place was cool -- mostly chill people there. When you immediately walk in there's the bar and some tables along the wall that you can hang out around. At the end of a bar is a pool table and on the other side a decent sized room with more seating and a dance floor.
Good place for starting your night off (if you're in a group of 8 or less probably). Pretty good looking people too.
There is nothing special about this dirty bar, except it can be used as a cheap alternative backup when other places are temporary closed around. If you're looking for a place to have some beers and you don't mind the music and the environment and the curious doorman, you'll enjoy it.
Delirium is located right off Mission Street. This is probably one of the diviest bars I've been to in a while but I love it. The reason I love it is because the drinks are cheap and I feel like the clientele is a cross section of the San Francisco population. Just a bunch of different people getting together and not giving a fudge.
My friends and I went on a Saturday night but it wasn't that packed. The place is small but we found a table to sit at and talk. There is a pool table in back if you are interested in that but I imagine there could be a long wait for it at times.
Went here with a friend last night. As far as I'm concerned, I was celebrating 4 years since the day I first arrived in San Francisco.
$2 Tecates, a dude in fishnets dancing on the stage, pinball machines, a cute chick that liked Helen Keller jokes, and 80s music were the highlights of this place.
Could have had a higher ratio of females; it seemed like all the cute girls that were there bailed out, and it was mostly a crowded, noisy sausage fest for the most part.
After the bar closed a wild night ensued; I slapped a cougar in the face, drank whiskey from the bottle on the streets, and shared some extremely emotional moments with the crackheads down on 16th and Mission until 6 AM.
Aforementioned friend was puking and trying to make sense of it all.
Grabbed a cab home and the cabby told me I was lucky to get out of that neighborhood alive and how he used to be a crackhead himself. Told me it's the best thing ever but I should never try it.
Woke up around 2 PM with a killer headache... Still haven't eaten, still have said headache, and I found a cigarette butt in my wallet. Weird.
Delirium is a typical dive bar, perfect for a chilled out night with cheap drinks, pool and good music. Saying that, the drinks are not that nice...whenever I have ordered a g&t, it never tastes refreshing and delicious like it should (I think it's the tap tonic that I don't like) and I avoid the whisky sours/margaritas because they are too sweet.
I'm quite happy to stick to a vodka/soda though, have a little dancey-dance in the back room where the dj booth is, or just (try to) play pool.
CASH ONLY! I didn't realize this and spent my taxi $$ on my drink. Mistake :( The place is ok - overly crowded and for some reason, everyone and their mother felt the need to step on my sandal laden feet --sad life. The music was cool (80s/90s) and the crowd was ok. It gets mad sweaty in here, though - especially the back room, so dress appropriately.
BEST DIVE BAR IN THE MISSION!
Why?
*$2.00 Tecates
*Chimay on tap and of course in Chimay gold rimmed glass-Classy!
*Hottest Punk/Rock guys ever!
*Best music -80's punk like Cure, Depeche, and so much more
*really wierd crazy dude who dances/makes love to the wall.
and of course, bacon wrapped hot dog cart guy is always really close by.
I have met some really awesome people here and also gotten into some trouble, I wont go in details as my case is still pending.
Cheers!!
Wow, seriously, think twice if your friends want to come here often, cause the reason is probably the cocaine blues my friend!
I have been to this bar far too many times for one that would rather not be at this bar. There were a couple of nights when I danced in the back room to some pretty good music back in the day, but the music isn't even good anymore...
Slowly, getting to why I seem to venture the mission less and less: the people are superficial, silver-spoon fed, and unhappy that their lives were in fact too perfect back home in the Midwest or the South. Anyway, I loathe this bar and feel like I am suffocating and might have to jump the tables to get out. The bartenders are rude, the people are weird in a bad way, no one excepts quarters; because apparently that's not good enough currency, and I feel like I'm trapped in the worst dive-dungeon in San Francisco.
If you frequent this bar, I wonder if you've reached a new low? Actually, I feel sorry for you, and if you think this is a dive bar, than I think you're mistaken. Just because a bar has cheap beer, doesn't make it a dive. Like many people have said, this bar only pretends to be a dive...
It's fine. The grillin' es muoy funky.
I dunno. I guess it's cheap for gentrification?
I just wrote a 50 page review for Monk's Kettle... you don't need my help here.
Hipster bar that attempts to be divey without needing to meet real dive bar prices. Maybe the PBR at Monk's was cheaper than here. I shouldn't have been so hard on the little guy.
I really miss football season. A lot. I find myself using football terms and gestures in everyday life to fill the void. I miss the whistles, the gridiron hits, horrific officiating that gets you out of your seat screaming "COME ON REF, ARE YOU BLIND?!", and most of all, I miss having an acceptable reason to start drinking at 10am on a Saturday. It's part embarrassing, part entertaining, but I can't help it; I need a 12 step group for this.
I miss the whistles. But not little girls screaming in high pitched dog whistle voices next to me about their ideas on angled bangs and headbands (girls are girls no matter where in the city you go).
I miss the gridiron hits, but I don't miss being hit and pushed around by drunken patrons while trying to get to the bathroom (and seriously, they could really optimize that space in there. So much room and only one stall?).
I miss yelling at my tv at the refs, but I don't miss having to yell over the blaring jukebox playing JOURNEY. I'm sorry, Journey? I didn't realize horrible frat boy music was allowed in this part of town. Please, no, ok, ya, they're now all singing along, some take this straw and kill me with it.
/throws yellow flag up in the air, walks out of bar shaking head and feeling bad for the bartenders who are really awesome but are working in a black hole of suck. Such potential too.
Cheap Tecate and probably the only bar in San Francisco with aggressive girls (not cougars).
Biggest complaint is a hot dingy dance floor in the back and a gross bathroom.
Okay Mr. Bartender guy who knows my date. You gotta stop putting vodka and crans in front of me as soon as I've finished the previous one. You are WAY too on top of getting me inebriated. If you're thinking it's going to help your friend get lucky, well, that was pretty much a foregone conclusion before the 17th vodka and cran you gave me.
Like: it was a foregone conclusion before we even got to Delirium.
I understand that you're trying to help a brother out; but, your enabling my drunk asshattery is not doing any of us any good.
Thankfully I had a solid dinner before going out that particular evening so even eighty gagillion vodka and crans couldn't have made me totally knee walking drunk.
Well a little woobly, perhaps. But, all the more excuse to drape myself over my companion's arm and say "let's get a cab back to my place."
*The only other time I've been to this bar was - I believe - the night that Nancypants R. had to almost cut a bitch. And, Starla gave me a shot of Frenet that I spit out into a napkin... ew Frenet.
I get the feeling that this bar wants to be so much more bad-ass then it is. With the devil motif and motto "Service for the Sick, you'd think this would be more of a goth/dark hipsterish hangout, but it's pretty much a normal bar.
Stopped here on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, snagged one of the high tables near the front, ordered a couple of shots of Jack and two $2 PBR drafts. Gotta love the price and service was quick and efficient.
Added bonus of our table being located between an advert for Harley Davidson and an old Johnny Cash poster. Women's restroom was airy and oddly pine scented, but seemed clean enough despite every single surface being spraypainted gloss black. Hand soap and paper towels were plentiful, which is lovely and unusual for a dive bar.
We had a couple of rounds and then headed back out - overall a solid, cheap place to put a few back.
dive bar with a dance floor
The DJ's philosophy was play 1 good song that gets the crowd excited and then just kill it. And everyone here has the same stupid face.
At the eighth bar of Christmas I bought myself for me:
One PBR
One Fernet
One PBR
One PBR
One Jack and Coke
One PBR
One vodka Red Bull
One pint of PBR
Best bar for mixing it up and having fun with the opposite sex (or whichever sex you find sexy).
The back dance room is dirty and grimy, smoky and sweaty.... YUM!
Good professional bartenders typically get you served in the order you belly up with relatively stiff drinks.
The music is outstanding.
Everyone knows that this place can get extremely crowded, so it should be no surprise nor disappointment when it is.
For as often as I've been here - for as drunk as I've been here - for as awfully as I dance here - for as often as my testosterone rose to Canseco like levels here - for as many girls as I've said inappropriate things to here - I've NEVER been in a fight here.
That's saying something.
And it's something good.
"OMG I'm gonna fuck a pro skater tonight. How do my tits look?"
This WAS a skate bar until the owner read Chelsea's grumpy ass review of the time she went to the D and was the only one of her friends to not get laid, and they figured she was better clientele than all the skate rat kids (myself included) who love this place and come here 6 nights a week selling out the $2 Tecate and $1(.50 now) high life grenades.
They buffed all the graffiti in the bathroom and there are too many pro-hos from the marina spilling their Coronas on the pool table.
Go to the D to get wasted not to take a shit.
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Not really a fan of this place. Sure, it can occasionally be good for dancing, but in that hopping-up-and-down-because-I-have-no-room-to-move -my-legs kind of dancing that happens when a dancefloor gets way overcrowded with rowdy drunk 21 year olds.
It's divey but not in a charming way and not in an authentic way either. Cheap PBR but it's not like you can't get that anywhere in the Mission.
Maybe it's better on off-nights but I haven't really spent much time here except for trying to dance because it's like the only dance bar in the damn Mission without a cover and I guess that explains why it's always so crowded with "woo girls" and the skater punks who love them.
Meh.
Generic dive bar. Crowded as hell.
I have to admit, I'm too old for this place but I just love it. I always go with the intention of hitting on some hipster child with jeans that I would have to peel off their ass but end up dancing in the back to 80s with my friends. It's a dive but has every walk of life you could think of. I always end up here on a Sat night. I would recommend leaving before close if you want to catch a cab.
This place stinks. Literally.
I went here for the first time on Friday, and had a few drinks with some friends. Sitting here, I was thinking of how much i'm not really into the Mission bar scene, I noticed a pack of Depends in between the booth we were sitting at and the next one. WTF kind of place has a pack of Depends just chillin, waiting for someone in need? The place radiated of grimy hipsters, I should have known by the two Vespas parked outside. I had some unfiltered beer on tap, that was one of the most hideously looking and tasting beers EVER! It was like drinking dirt water! And the guy walking around asking if anyone saw his pack of cigarettes. Like get with the program dude, nobody saw them, but everyone smoked them! This place reminded me of Trees Lounge, that movie where Steve Buscemi plays a pervert...and I swore I saw Gary Busey in here too!!
Came here with my ballet coworkers last night and actually had a good time! I've been here a few times but it's usually at the end of the night and I'm too wasted to notice the scenery much...
The night started with a request from my coworker who just broke up with her hipster boyfriend and needed a replacement. And where do nice girls go when they need to find a hipster slampiece? THE MISSION, duh.
First we went to Kilowatt but ew. The lack of attractive young people was a concern. Actually the lack of attractive people period was a concern.
I'm with two hot chicks and a hot gay boy and we're all talking about how much we love anal. Loudly. Pretty soon we have a line of bearded men vying for our attention! Many, many shots of jameson later two of my friends left to get papusas and two gentleman callers approached me and my boss and said they needed "beautiful women to play pool with".
My suitor said he was in cirque du soleil but after much prodding and a failed backflip found out he was a software engineer. Heh. Why must men always lie.
Then my roommate showed up and totally KILLED OUR GAME. We were outside and this guy starts yelling "OMG IT'S THE MAYOR!" He does bear an uncanny resemblance to Gavin but mostly it was the brooks brothers getup and apparent narc/grown up vibe.
The guys that were once paying attention to us cleared out we left shortly afterward.
Oh delirium I will return but without my squarebear counterpart.
Saturday (10Jan09) happy hour was a dream date.
Slayer on the jukebox.
Free Pool.
Adamms Family Pinball.
Video Games.
The place was full of regulars who jostled each other with jokes and skeletons in the closet stories. They were friendly to newbies and laughed when they played pool. In their AC/DC T-Shirts.
The bartender was a little deaf and that made us feel outside the cool kids party. Not a great technique for boosting the tip jar.
Other than that, I would seriously go again and now know why there are big groups outside this place every weekend.
It's dirty, it's fun.
Somehow I always end up in here and it's usually a hit-or-miss experience depending on how crowded it is. There's no cover so it's never a giant loss if you end up squeezing out to go somewhere else. The beer is quite cheap and the makeshift dance floor in the back room can be a lot of fun, but then again, it can also be a pain in the ass. It all depends on your mood and who you're with.
One major complaint though --- there are other songs that came out of the 80's besides journey's "don't stop believing" and nena's "99 luft balloons" --- can someone talk to the DJ about spinning some different shit?
Hipsters like to:
a) drink at dolores park
b) drink at delirium
c) drink all the time to drown out the misery of being a hipster
d) all of the above
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