The Connection

Some friends and I were in the area on a Friday and found ourselves at the connection later in the evening. We had a fairly large group, about 10 people, and we all got beers. The bartender was a little brash but friendly nonetheless. The bar is filled with locals; my gf and i were talking to a regular who was sitting at the end of the bar and very kind.

An older Hispanic man in his 50s-60s did not like one of my friends for whatever reason, maybe what he was wearing were gang colors? Or maybe he mistook him for someone else? But the man started to threaten my friend in the middle of the bar. At one point he went outside to get on the phone, i assume to call other people.

All while this is going on, there was a karaoke mic set up and people were randomly yelling while other people in the bar watched sat around and watched.

We quickly finished our beers and decided to leave. Aside from the lady we were talking to, most of the people in this bar didn't seem too friendly. If you're not a local/regular, you'll get the feeling that you're not welcome here, at least that's the vibe I got.

A neighborhood dive bar for sure. It was cool to see locals come in to chit chat with the bartenders. Chill crowd, cheap drinks.

Great collage mural of San Francisco scenes behind the bar. It's a Clamper bar, and they generally know good bars.

Awesome place first and third Fridays are amazing. I love the. Love it. Great atmosphere I always feel welcome. Even though I only get a chance to come in once in a while.

Streets of San Francisco season 3 episode 2 shot in this bar. Iconic. Crazy this bar has been around since 1974 and before.

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name! The connection has that vibe! Where else can you go get cut, tatted, and turnt!? The CONNECTION! Adela keeps us laughing she's professional and doesn't take any crap!

THis place is a fun welcoming place, everyone is nice an I even got whistled at an called some complimenting names from women .

Pool table is great and I love the karaoke, Amanda Rocks!!
Yes she does, and she rocks the karaoke here every Friday.
Everyone comes here to have a great time and you can tell by the smiles on there faces .
The location isn't bad either .
Theres plenty of parking, just don't do anything stupid like I did and break my key because there are nothing but tow away signs all over if you have to leave your car overnight which I did.

The drinks are great here, I left with a smile.
I really enjoyed myself.
The stools are real cushy.

I am gonna have to give this place two thumbs up and all stars.

I heard this place used to be rough , it seems like a really cool welcoming place to me tho.

Stepped into the connection, because I wanted to connect my hand with a nice cold brew. Never been here before but my dad lived a block away back in the days so yeah, there's a child hood connection to this neighborhood.

A dive bar in every sense of the word. The faithful patrons of The Connection truly make this otherwise quasi quiet watering hole come to life.

Nothing fancy, nothing to neighborhoody or kitschy, nothing sketchy either. Just some middle aged - blue collar - highly entertaining city worker type folks. However, the fireplace gives this joint some panache.

One guy at the bar, a real big dude - imagine if you will a 6'4", 266lb pregnant man. Like literally! He had the same physique as Kate from Jon & Kate plus 8, before her sextuplet delivery.

Anyways, me and my homeboy Kris were in an intense game of 8 ball on their $1 pool table. We were simply enjoying our $3.25 Hefeweizens when the aforementioned bar patron pauses from random bar banter of F-bombs and Beyotches between himself and the KTVU news staff on the tv and challenges me to some pool.

Pregnant man was a pool shark! He starts shooting my balls in while talking about Jeet Kune Do. I'm like WTF? Back to the game - he schools me and gets the 8 ball in on a 2 rail bank shot while I have 3 balls remaining on the table?!? I later find out he's a security guard - ohhh, that's why!

The orange vest guy, who had a striking resemblance to Ned Flanders from the Simpson's, was GENUINELY happy that we came in. He starts introducing us to the bartendress and says they hardly have any customers during the weekdays even though they have $7 pitchers, but it's $8.50 for a pitcher of Hef. He also told us about The Connection's karaoke Fridays @ 9pm.

These guy's vibe and energy was surreal. It's like in the movie Stepbrother's when the two brothers start making bunk beds after finally connecting and bonding for the first time.

The patrons make you feel welcome.

Karaoke Fridays at 9pm. I just might have to.

I've been wanting to check this place out for a long time since it is close to my house. I am glad that i finally did - it is a cozy, clean, well organized bar. There are joke box, pool table, darts l, tvs and inexpensive drinks. Carlos, the bartender, is genuinely nice dude... 5 stars!

Fun times!

I went for the "Just for the hell of it" (or whatever it was called) party last night and I guess it was the most packed that its ever been because it was spilling out the front door. Which I am sure was not abnormal...lol

There was a DJ mixing it up and the fire was going, boxing was on, along with some other sports on ESPN, everyone was having a great time, no drama....so what else could you ask for? Ah, the drinks....right, it is a bar huh? Yes, good drinks (strong!) were had and after about an hour or so, things got blurry...

Great staff + Good stiff drinks + Fun & friendly people= Good Times :)

I would repeat!