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Uptown
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Street
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Wed, Thu
- Happy Hour:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- No
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- No
- Ambience:
- Dive-y
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
169 reviews for Uptown
Review Highlights
"also, there's a pool table -- thumbs up for that."
(in 30 reviews)
"at the time, excellent jukebox."
(in 32 reviews)
"cool down to earth bartenders with zero attitude."
(in 33 reviews)
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169 reviews in English
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Review from Megan L.
Pleasanton, CA
2/7/2012 1 Check-in Here
Super seedy down & dirty dive bar - but totally hits the spot with a generous offering of beers on tap. 2 beers (prohibition & hefeweizen) set me back only $9.
Place is almost uncomfortably stuffy (in the dead of winter, too) so I can't imagine what it's like in the summer. Don't come wearing anything nice. Also found a booth seat with the foam upholstery entirely ripped out revealing a 1.5-foot gaping hole. lol.
Seems like the prerequisite for blending into this bar is to dress like a certified hipster. Black skinny jeans on scruffy skinny hipster male alert. Go sit at the benches near the pool table and you'll get some nice eye candy from leering at the sagging pants of said skinny-pant-clad scruffy white male hipster. Provided you avoid getting your eye poked out by a wayward pool cue.
Gets pretty crowded on a Friday night, but the bar order wait was not too bad - took only about 5 minutes to flag down the bartender. -
Review from ameer n.
San Francisco, CA
1/25/2012
The bartender forgot about me, and I patiently waited for about 5 mins. When she realized she forgot about me, my drink was on the house. Service doesn't get better than that.
Plenty of seating on a Friday night at 9pm, affordable drinks, diverse clientele. -
Review from Ellen C.
San Francisco, CA
1/22/2012
Portland frat house chic! The doorman knows what's up. Not only was a top hat at attention, but a draped fleece neck-cozy for this cold San Francisco night. His dress is whimsical, but his demeanor is gruff.
The couches are a major selling point. If I'm going to a bar it's to hang out with my two friends and feel like we also have a lot of other friends around us. Chilling on fluffy couches deepens the illusion. Cheap drinks, attentive bartenders, congenial crowd, except...
Two fights happened at the bar tonight. The first was some tall douche that decked a guy sitting at the bar twice. The bartenders were super-responsive, removed the douche in question, and handed the victim a damp towel for the blood. As I waited for my well I watched the dude ignore his bleeding face in order to dry his gentle tears. The second was after the bar closed and everyone was just hanging outside. Suddenly a chick was sprawled in the road and a dude tangled in his bike. The chick was freighted off by two friendly goons. Bike dude stumbled upright when a blonde banshee arrived, fists out. She started pounding the dude, who was too drunk to fall. This was the moment I bounced, but the general character of the crowd struck me as restless and volatile. Not someplace I'd like to be. Ever. -
Review from Nicholas A.
Hollywood, CA
1/15/2012
I went into this place expecting it to be like that trendy I'm cool spot. No it was the opposite the person I talked to there was like rebelling against the whole idea that it was liked on Yelp, that's pretty cool if you ask me other spots like totally try to suck up to the social media aspect of their place being a hotspot. This place has an authentic vibe that's filled with locals and newbs like myself, everyone I talked to was super friendly and the staff was very nice and I got my drink fast. Probably one of the best bars I've ever been to.
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Review from Jordan P.
San Francisco, CA
1/14/2012
My favorite dive in the Mission. Great beer selection, good amount of seating, pool & pinball. Its a smaller place and can get very crowded.
Listed in: STRONG DRINK
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Review from Kapena C.
Kaneohe, HI
1/20/2012 1 Check-in Here
Total dive bar action. No pretentious clientele, there was even a free roaming dog which made more people smile than anything. Prices were by far the cheapest I have come across on my trip to San Fran. Good+strong+cheap= awesome any day!!!
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Review from Ray C.
9/21/2011 1 Check-in Here
Excellent place to get your beer on, get your couch on, your pinball on, or anything else. Quite the dive, but who will notice when you're downing $2 PBRs and as cheap drafts. Plenty of couches if you want to lounge like a bunch of high people, booths for the small groups, or pool table for those looking to shark.
Nice staff, good crowd even on a Weds early evening. Note: cash bar. -
Review from Nicholas M.
San Francisco, CA
11/18/2011
Watch out for the people who regularly play pool there, you won't be able to beat them. I like sitting on the church pew and heckling people playing pool. You are the king if you can snag the 1 circular table, people will try and join you, to hear what you have to say. The double sided bar is great too, which makes it really accessible. I like getting my drinks quick. Low bartender turn over speaks volumes, and the soap jar is always full in the b room. Babe factor: 6. It's been near 9 before.
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Review from Peter F.
Oakland, CA
8/8/2011
Suuuper divey. Kinda gross. I know a lot of dives that are just as dingy, but have enough character to make up for the lack of hygiene.
Pros: Good scotch selection (they have laphroaig), Pool Table
Cons: Gross everything
Side effects may include: depression upon entering, exiting, or even viewing this place -
Review from Ting A.
9/21/2011 42 Check-ins Here
do you ever get that not-so-fresh feeling? well, sometimes, it's appropriate. sometimes, i LIKE feeling dirty. being squeaky clean and sparkly all the time gets old, and i feel that uptown would agree w/me. i also feel that he and i are often misjudged. he's eccentric and not dirty or gross at all. and i'm not harsh. just selectively nice. : )
it's a total dive, and i feel at home here. this low-key bar is separated into two rooms, and you'll find me in the pool room 99.9% of the time. (.1% of the time, i'm in the bathroom. : ) ladies, there is no lock on the stall, but the door is 1mm bigger than the doorway, so if you just pull on it a little, it shuts just fine.) the pool room also houses a jukebox (w/minimal hip hop, boo hoo), a pinball machine, and an arcade game. in general, uptown's regular pool players are pretty good, so bring your A game. it can get a little cramped on the weekends, but non-pool people are good about moving out of your way if necessary. p.s. 50 CENT POOL, people. take that change that you were going to donate to third world kids w/flies on their faces and play pool w/me instead.
the other room has a tv if you want to stop in and watch a game in peace on a sunday afternoon, and there's a piano in the back if you feel like getting your beethoven on.
such an array of people too. not only will you find the regular mission folk here, you will also encounter interesting individuals, such as the man in the top hat making skeletons out of pipe cleaners. the bartenders are cool too. i was once a guinea pig for a new shot concoction. (it tasted like christmas morning.)
as if the 50 cent pool wasn't enough to lure me in on a continuous basis, my drink of choice (jameson and ginger) only costs $5. ($5 make me holla fsho.)Listed in: Pool Shark?, Dive In!
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Review from Emily D.
10/24/2011
My awesome roommate took me here to enjoy some cheap vodka sodas and take shots of fernet while we explained to the bartender how we autopay our bills. Like adults. It was fun.
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Review from Christina R.
San Francisco, CA
9/23/2011
Cheap drinks and a Lord Of The Rings pinball machine. Need I say more? I'm shire to return.
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Review from Sarah W.
San Francisco, CA
3/20/2011
It's a dive bar. That's basically all I can say about it. It's crowded, cheep drinks, loud, lots of drunk people but it's a great place to go if that is the mood you are in. It doesn't have the club feel so it is easy to just grab a beer and drink.
There are a bunch of couches that at first glance are fun and looks like an easy place to talk to strangers but once I sat I realized that they were gross and felt like I was in a college fraternity house all over again.
It wouldn't be my first choice but I wouldn't deny ever going back. -
Review from JJ C.
Los Angeles, CA
4/14/2011
The first thing I thought when I walked into Uptown was "divey."
Cool people. A few hipsters here and there. Pretty decently priced drinks.
Not my first priority for a bar, but definitely worth checking out or ending up at the last half of your night. -
Review from ruggy j.
11/15/2010 1 Check-in Here
Sure, per capita, there are more prostitutes canvassing the streets of Capp in the Mission than any other set of coordinates in San Francisco, but don't let that deter you, as Capp is home to one of the best dive bars in the 'hood, Uptown.
It's a little off the beaten path, so it's generally not a bar that someone just happens to stumble upon. This is a great attribute as you don't ever have to worry about your night being ruined by a bunch of gasbags or unsavory visitors from East of that long silver bridge taking up residency in the Bay. It's just a cool group of folks who like to have a good time in the company of others with dark lights and cheap liquor. And really, at the root of things, aren't those the bare necessities we all strive for in a dive bar? -
Review from Caitlin M.
Oakland, CA
12/11/2010
I swear to god I met Tommy (as in, the Who's Tommy) here.
This man was absolutely giving it to the pinball machine. It was like nothing I've ever seen before in my life. He was shaking it around, hitting it, smacking it...
... he made the pinball machine his bitch. It was amazing.
At any rate, drinks are tasty, couches are comfy, and the place has a well-worn, cozy feeling that makes you want to drink like a 20 year old. You know, like a fraternity living room, or the basement in your friends' house at college. Mismatched, kinda dirty furniture, extra-loud laughers, and people playing pool poorly abound.
I could move in here, if it weren't for how incredibly sketch the bathrooms are.Listed in: Pinball Wizards
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Review from Madeleine R.
Cotati, CA
3/17/2011 1 Check-in Here
$4 draft beers? Sold. Or $2 cans of pbr if that's your thing. (You know who you are).
I agree with Caitlin S. that people don't mind when you need to squeeze your way up to the bar to grab a drink. It's small and crowded, therefore it's generally understood that you're going to be rubbing arms with several strangers throughout the night.
It is cash only, so make sure that you hit the atm before going to Uptown; that is, if you're anything like me and you go through cash quicker than an H3 goes through a tank of gas. -
Review from Lizz E.
Berkeley, CA
11/3/2010
As far as dive bars go, this one is pretty legit. It's right down the street from my BFF4LYFE, so I end up here a lot when he and I are getting a nightcap after stumbling around the Mission.
It's pretty cozy and lowkey. It's not the cleanest place, but come on...it's a DIVE BAR. Guys, they aren't supposed to be shiny, sequined and new! The drinks are cheap, the bartenders are attentive, and the clientele is relatively Not Annoying, which is difficult when you consider that it's in the Mission. I can pretty much be friends with anyone, but the level of hipster pretentiousness in that neighborhood is a little much for even me (and that's coming from a woman with Bettie Page bangs, facial piercings and skinny jeans). There's still a hipster surplus, but everyone that I've run into here seems to be relatively friendly and left that whole high school exclusionary mentality behind. Now pass the fecking PBR. -
Review from Tom R.
San Francisco, CA
Don't let the fact that yelp has this place categorized as a "lounge" fool you; Uptown is a dive bar! Just because there are some couches doesn't make this place a lounge.
Here are the arguments in favor of calling this place a dive:
1) It doesn't look like anyone has put any money or effort into the interior for the last 70 years.
2) Its cash only.
3) The bathrooms can be at best described as "no frills" and at worst "rough"
4) Bartenders that range from uninterested to plain old surly.
5) At any given time there is at least one regular customer drinking their life away.
This is my kind of basic neighborhood dive bar, it's rowdy and cheap; of course it used to be more interesting before they ran all the hookers off of Capp St. -
Review from Lisa R.
11/9/2010 1 Check-in Here
I love (and hate) dive bars. This isn't one of your genericized dive bars that "thinks" it's a dive bar but is really a purposefully dirtied version of a disneyland bar....done so to appeal to the surburbanites who head to the City for an "adventure".
the Uptown is a real dive bar. With real good drinks. And real good bartenders. We stopped in before heading out to dinner and had a round of bourbon, laphroaig and dark n stormys. All were good. The dark and stormys at The Uptown are more ginger beery than others, which is nice. not that overwhelming rummy flavor you sometimes get.
There is a pool table at The Uptown and some seriously beat up couches for one to flop upon whilst you get your drink on.
Not the greatest neighborhood, so don't dress up and stay alert. -
Review from Amy S.
Los Angeles, CA
6/29/2010
I've only been here once but I think it's my new favorite bar.
I stumbled in here with some friends after a few drinks. Saturday night. $2 PBRs? On a Saturday?! In love! I had enough to keep my buzz and catch a cab home.
The neon lights seemed to compliment all the fine young gentlemen in this establishment quite well on that Saturday night. A friend of mine agreed with me...indeed, there were lots of cute boys here! But maybe we both had beer-goggles on.
All I'm saying is...it's a cool hangout. Didn't get too crowded, didn't wait too long for a drink and definitely didn't pay too much for the alcohol. That's a dream come true on the weekend. -
Review from Caitlin S.
San Francisco, CA
3/6/2011
I love The Uptown. It's become my regular Thursday night spot, though it's great everybody's. Weekends it does get a little crowded but that's to be expected, and no one really seems to mind when you're squeezing up to the bar or through the crowd to the bathroom.
Pool table, good music in the jukebox, a Lord of the Rings pinball machine.
Also there's a circle of couches and plenty of seating to make this a comfy place to hang out.
Most importantly, they have tons of great beer on tap. Yes please! -
Review from Denise S.
10/3/2010
Uptown really isn't my kind of place.
The only two things I really enjoyed about this bar was the $2 PBR's and the big comfy couches surrounding the oversize coffee table.
Oh yes, and the bathroom looks like the setting for a brutal rape scene. I've never used facilities faster.
So, with that said I probably won't be going back anytime soon. -
Review from Gary E.
11/21/2008
Tracee, myself, and Professor Mike had to attend a screening of a friend's short movie at the Secret Alley on Capp Street. I'd seen the movie before, I knew what to expect, so we got there early to get a few beers inside to numb the impending pain. Shuffling in to the Uptown, which was completely empty, we ordered a round. Our beers were... well, beers - not the best selection in the world - but Tracee was all over her vodka tonic, which was heavy on the alci-mi-hol, and we couldn't argue about the prices. (Cash only, BTW...)
So we ordered another round. And another.
The screening went surprisingly well. The complete arseness of the movie was dampened by the room spinning. Wheee!
We stopped in for another round afterwards, before we met the aspiring moviemaker and her crew for dinner. At this point, the place was full of douches who were trying their best to look trendy - and failing miserably. We downed our round and left.
I'd give this place three, but for simply fuelling me with beer to get me through that screening, they get one extra. -
Review from Drue C.
San Francisco, CA
10/17/2007
Yep, there are an awful lot of Uptowns in this here grand nation of ours.
Wikipedia says they are in the following places so I am sure this must be the complete and all encompassing list: Uptown, Normal, IL; Uptown, Chicago; Charlotte center city ("Uptown Charlotte"); Uptown Dallas; Uptown (Harrisburg); Uptown, Hartford; Uptown Houston; Uptown, Manhattan; Uptown, Memphis; Uptown, Minneapolis; Uptown New Orleans; Uptown, Pittsburgh (see Bluff (Pittsburgh)); Uptown, Seattle, Washington, officially known as "Lower Queen Anne"; Uptown Toronto; Uptown Lexington; Uptown, Montreal.
Notice there is no listing for San Francisco. Except this bar apparently. If I dig really hard I guess I could assume it is uptown from the crackheads down the alley, or uptown from a few liquor stores. It is, however, not uptown in the sense that one would typically associate with this word.
I, personally, find this to be a good thing. This bar is worn, and by worn I mean the furniture is banged up, the pool table is uneven, drinks are strong, the ATM kiosk is often broken, the fireplace could double as a fire hazard and pieces of the floor are missing.
It, however, seems to attract a great friendly unpretentious mix of people from the neighborhood......and not a one of the crackheads who reside outside. I guess that is what uptown means around these parts.Listed in: Almost a dive bar
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Review from Rachel F.
San Francisco, CA
9/15/2008
I need to stop visiting dive bars with my current dive bar partner. Really, it's skewing my views of places. I'm giving two star bars 5 stars, and literal one-star sh*tholes 4 stars.
Not to say that the Uptown is a sh*thole. It's a pretty standard dive bar, with a crappy tv in one corner, and some couches in the back that obviously have seen better days. The clientele is super friendly, as is the bar staff, and it seems that there's always a seat at the bar.
They have Trumer Pils on tap, and service is super fast.
The Uptown's overall pretty cool, but then again, I think that he and I would have fun underneath a rock.Listed in: The Places I Go Out
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Review from Angela H.
San Francisco, CA
7/17/2009
Uptown is alright. It's a little dark in the main room, but it's fun that to the side they have a game room with pool tables and arcade games.
The first time I was here, a fireman kept chatting me up, and gave my friend and I a handful of little blackcat fireworks. Wtf? -
Review from Suzanne B.
San Francisco, CA
11/19/2006
Came here the other night with Kristine J as part of a short tour of bars in the Mission.
Okay, Green Bunny PSA - I am NOT a dive bar aficionado. I grew up in squeaky clean suburbs, led a boringly average adolescence and my drink of choice tends to be wine. I did not discover the phenomenon of dive bars until I was working on boats in Alaska. So - I'm not the best person to provide insight into a bar most label as a dive. Now back to regular programming:
Due to some overenthusiastic imbibing earlier in the evening I had switched to water, so I didn't get to experience the actual drinks here - but I liked the vibe. Lots of seating options, not too loud but not murderously quiet, friendly bartenders, nice mix of customers. Definitely worth another visit - when I'm not drinking water!Listed in: Where Did I Go Wrong?
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Review from Cassio P.
San Francisco, CA
5/28/2007
Now I'm no nancy boy, but I was a bit miffed by the piles of trash in the gutter outside and the two scraggly old dudes standing guard by the front door, not a tooth in their heads.
Turns out this is all just an elaborate facade to disguise a haven of $4 drinks and plentiful entertainment that is inside.
It kind of smells like feet, but from what I understand of Mission Theory, the foot smell is the left side of the elaborate equation that equals the striking but attractive hipster clientele, pinball machines and pool tables, sofa lounges and graffiti'd bathrooms.
Of course the kicker is that for ten bucks, I got half a liter of Hefeweizen and Mani got a martini glass so deep you'd need to hire scuba divers to resurface the olives. -
Review from Chloe S.
San Francisco, CA
9/4/2006
This is my idea of a neighborhood bar that somehow manages not to be overrun by hipsters. Of course they're there, but so's the weirdo old dudes from down the street. It works out well. Pretty tiny of a space, but if you get there early enough you can grab a booth by the windows overlooking scenic Capp St. My girls and I always seem to make boyfriends with all the single homeless dudes loitering outside, so that's pretty cool. I know you're jealous, but being a hater won't get you anywhere.
The juke box sorta blows--it's really weird, actually. For example, last time I checked they had the X anthology, but only disc 2. Hmm. And the "Master of Puppets" CD is totally scratched, yet they keep it in there. Hmmmmmm.
Once I lost my birth control pills (NO BABIES!!!!!) between the wall and the booth and never retrieved them. So, like, if you're straight and anti-baby, maybe you can dig them out. Use them yourself. I dunno, guess I'm just feeling generous.Listed in: I'm like a chocoholic, but…
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Review from Liz G.
Cambridge, MA
7/26/2006
I love me a good dive bar and this is up there with the best of them. No complaints about the bar.
I must have been having an off night though because somehow I managed to:
* pour beer all over my foot
* play two games of pool without ever successfully sinking a ball
* get so distracted by the stick lengthener apparatus thingie that I just straight up hit the ball I was aiming at instead of the cue ball
* get bitten on the arm by a random dude
* later try to demonstrate to the arm-biter that I had a bicep, thereby allowing to bite me on the arm AGAIN before I realized what was happening
* get walked in on by two girls while in the bathroom
* knock a bicycle over into the middle of the room using only my head
* cockblock a guy by accidentally hitting the girl he was flirting with in the neck with a coaster, causing her to leave
I didn't break any glassware though. That was definitely someone else.Listed in: Tuesday is the New Friday: a…
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Review from Stephanie p.
San Francisco, CA
2/1/2009
Last time I was here, I made awkward small talk with the guy sitting next to me, while he softly stroked a giant pet rat in his lap.
Yeah, that's how you roll at Uptown.Listed in: Mission: The Mission
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Review from Lisa T.
San Francisco, CA
11/4/2009
The Uptown reminds me of the basement at my Great Aunt Alice and Uncle Nick's house back home, on the West Side of Detroit.
As kids, my cousins and I used to hide out from all the scary old people down there, with their pipes and their weird Polish food. Because there was a pool table and a pinball machine... Wood-paneled walls and a scratchy couch and a wobbly little bar they put in themselves, with a set of old poker chips... All kinds of games we didn't know how to play... Rituals we hadn't been initiated into yet... But we pretended...
We practiced growing up to be Polish drunks just like the Polish drunks smoking their pipes and drinking their vodka upstairs -- we just didn't realize that by the time we were grown up, we wouldn't have any place so authentic as Uncle Nick's basement to be drunk in. We'd be hanging out someplace like the Uptown.
Which is tolerable. But I would trade all the hipsters at the Uptown for my old relatives ANY DAY now.
The girl bartender, though -- she can stay. -
Review from Jeremy W.
San Francisco, CA
9/6/2006
Grubby. At times scrungey. Gods, how I love this place.
When this bar opened years ago (I even recall when it had the best 45s jukebox in SF) calling it The Uptown must have been a hilarious joke. And with all of the gentrefication that's hammered the life out of The City and flattened so many of its delightful edges, the still-ironically named Uptown stands. With the same crappy couches, disgustipating WCs and total lack of charmless, perfumed slummers.
Years ago, Treat Street was the place that scared away all the bridge and tunnel creeps out on sub-culture safari, with its taxidermied heads and balls to the wall juke. The Uptown needs no decor or lack of it to weed out all but the most sympathetic. Although I was there recently when they were projecting Meet The Feebles on the wall. That couldn't have hurt...Listed in: The Piano Has Been Drinking
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Review from Mortimer P.
San Francisco, CA
4/17/2009
My memory of this saloon is hazy after spending most of the evening at the Attic drinking the nefarious Racer Five beer, among other things. My chum and I arrived here after a long, oblivious walk. Incomprehensibly, I ordered another Racer Five, which proved to be my downfall quite quickly.
After ordering our pints and heading for the empty sofas, I felt nature's call and headed for what I thought was the men's restroom. I walked down into a pitch-dark cavern and wandered endlessly inside it, still convinced that it was the men's room and I'd find a urinal somewhere nearby. After feeling my way around, I decided to turn back and exit this mysterious grotto and use the ladies' room instead.
And so I used the ladies' room, but was confused as to why there was a urinal in there. Of course, it turns out that it was the men's room all along, and I had previously stumbled into some type of storage area.
I remember enjoying the music, the quadrant of sofas surrounding a coffee table, the cozy atmosphere, and the dearth of patrons. Just the right type of environment in which to pass out. Which we both did, for a time, in between my unsuccessful attempts to vomit (having found my way to the restroom with ease now).
I must return at another time to assess the place, and avoid drinking Racer Five at all costs. -
Review from Jimmy G.
9/18/2010
If you like horn rimmed glasses, mustaches, and american apparel's sense of style (though you think it is too expensive), you'll love The Uptown. They have your PBR waiting for $2.
The people here are just post-college and seem happy. It's an alright place to wrap up a night. -
Review from Brittany H.
San Francisco, CA
11/24/2009
HIPSTAR MANIAR~!
Seriously, every guy was wearing a plaid shirt.
Anyways, after waiting 15 minutes to get my first drink, everything other than that was smooth sailing.
Long island + vodka cranberry was $9.75 altogether?! HELL YES.
Minus one star because this creepy man asked my friend if "when she put on her leggings that night did she think she was hot?"
I put him in his place, he called me the rudest person he's ever met, yada yada.
You can't rain on my drunken parade, man!!!Listed in: Draaaank
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Review from Samantha P.
San Bruno, CA
1/2/2010
After wandering the grimy Mission streets at midnight, this little dive bar offers little change of scenery, but great character. If you want to appreciate the true San Francisco dive bar scene, this is the place to be.
It may not be clean, and it may not always smell so good, but dammit I only came for the cheap beer. That's the way it will always be, because even on the busiest city nights, you can depend on this place to be fairly empty.
Maybe it's the homeless people gathering outside, or the faint and wavering smell of urine. Either way it doesn't matter.
Fairly strong drinks for the price, and they have a piano, so if you wanna be like me and bust out a drunken and incomplete version of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor you are entitled to. Just don't expect anyone to pay attention. You are, after all, incoherent and rambling.
And where better to be than in a place that encourages you in your habits? -
Review from Kevin H.
San Francisco, CA
6/6/2008
Uptown is the best possible type of dive-bar--a cheap, fun and cool place that's not at all impressed with its own cheap, fun and cool-ness.
Uptown is so laid back they have couches, which are awesome when you can snag them, until drunk kids trying to give each-other piggy back rides fall on top of you and bend you in half and then get chaffed at you for telling them to watch the fuck out instead of being all "WOOO MY SPINE IS SHATTERED!! PARTAAAAY!!"
But that's not Uptown's fault. Its a fun and laid back place, so people are bound to get a little crazy there now and again. As it should be. Just keep your crazy off of my lap, please.Listed in: The Mission, Mission Bar Crawl
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Review from Miriam W.
9/18/2006
Where else in this city can a 20 spot buy you four pints of premium beer and after tipping the bartender still leave you with change in your pocket?
This place has got dirrrrty (we're talking REAL dirty, not Xtina-style dirty, folks) down pat. Avoid the bathrooms and remember this about the stench that permeates the place: you'll get used to it after a while. . .
