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San Francisco, CA
Yelping SinceOctober 2006
Things I Love Find Me InA dive bar
My HometownDavis, Ca
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DateCoronado, CA 92118
(619) 435-5885
The Little Club
Category: Nightlife
Neighborhood: Coronado
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 409-1111
Amsterdam Café
Category: Bars
Neighborhood: Civic Center/Tenderloin
The place is beer and wine only, which is just fine for me seeing as I am an equal opportunity drinker. The selection is pretty damn good and the prices are too. Oh, and there is an open patio out front so if you drink when you smoke or smoke when you drink or just smoke a lot there is a place for you to hang out.
If smoking is not your thing then you can sit at the bar or travel a little farther back to the lounge area behind the curtain, if you dare to brave the sometimes bizarre local art that adorns the wall.
Whatever you do just don't go telling everyone about this place.
There are tons of charming decor details; the upside down unfinished needlepoint projects screwed into the drywall in the restrooms, the detailed tapestry of dogs playing pool, placed on the wall behind the actual table, the $50.00 home karaoke setup placed on the Kenmore fridge that houses their extra mixers. I could go on but there are far too many to mention.
You are made to feel at home in this bar. If you are a patron you may be asked to get your own mixer out of the fridge that sits in the middle of the room, next to the jukebox that is cranking a steady flow of country music and Selena. If you tip the bartender you are thanked as if you just handed her a birthday card with a few bills tucked inside. The furniture is "well worn" and if you have a birthday there will be a poster board hung behind the bar with your bar friends drunken wishes scribbled upon it.
When you leave you are thanked for stopping by and invited to come back anytime, but in a tone that is a little too friendly, as if they know you are destined for something else.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 437-1770
Cav Wine Bar and Kitchen
Categories: Wine Bars, American (New)
Neighborhoods: Hayes Valley, SOMA
They actually want to be reminded that when you are all thrown into a room together after 20 years you revert back. Some people are perceived as better than others with no merit whatsoever and that, though you were not that super unpopular geek that sat alone at lunch, you also were not a part of the crowd everyone wanted to be a part of.
Cav, all of these years later, sort of makes me feel like that "almost there but not quite" gal of the wine bar world. The servers seem selectively nice depending on who you are, who you know and what you say. The food is beautiful but sort of lacking depth, and they sometimes make you feel that if you don't know the wine on the menu then you are clearly not cool.
The place isn't all bad, I mean, it reminds me that you can fit in but still have a bit of individuality (the nice decor paired with the chalkboard cartoon walls demonstrates this nicely). I am able to look back on my few visits here and come up with some vague fond memories, mostly of the people I came with. I know enough about wine to know the list is decent. I am certainly not that person that is snickered at behind their back, but if that was all that I required in an experience I would just go to my reunion.
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 626-6262
Bistro St. Germain
Category: French
Neighborhood: Lower Haight
I, personally, like the fact that there is a French Bistro close to me, with a $20 prix fixe weekday neighborhood special, and cannot complain a bit about the quality of the food for the price. They could step up the speed of service a bit but I suppose this is not the European way.
The decor is pleasant, though it can get a little loud and the tables are very cramped thought the place never seem to be full. They could stand to lose a few tables and give us some breathing room. I will say this much, despite the slow pace of the service, the second time I dined here I was greeted with a "welcome back" and customer service counts for a lot in my book.
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9/17/2009
I am giving this bar 5 stars with the disclaimer that it could move very quickly down to just a few once this place is discovered by a bunch of ass hats that will ruin the decor and not pay proper respect to this 70's labor of love.
I drank on a water bed in the back of a van. I had a rap off with a table across the bar via CB radio. I discovered that padded walls are not always a bad thing and shag can be a cute accessory if paired with the right auto parts. I also now know that between Schlitz, Olympia, PBR and Hamms that Schlitz is the Milwaukee winner and that it is best enjoyed in an aged bucket seat.
I also heard a certain Yelp community manager *coughruggycough* proclaim over the CB for all to hear "grab your panties with your left hand and your ankle with your right". I don't know what this means but the sign above the front door to this bar is made of Lite Brite pegs. Maybe that makes you a little crazy on the mic?
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 252-1330
Thee Parkside
Categories: Restaurants, Dive Bars, Music Venues
Neighborhood: Potrero Hill
Places like Thee Parkside temporarily aid me in the illusion that I will somehow achieve this life one day. They have cheap buckets of PBR over ice that I can sit outside and drink on a warm day, and food that will allow me to put some of my paycheck into savings. At night they have bands who's tickets do not come with a service fee on top of a "convenience" fee of $20 to have them emailed to me.
Then I spend the day here celebrating this dream. Toasting my friends over and over for my crafty frugal ways. Then I order another bucket of beer and talk about the causes and the shoes. And another while telling my friends I will invite them all onto my yacht one day. And another while mentally decorating my mansion in my mind and promising my friends the most lavish of parties.
Then I dip into my depleting savings for the extra money now needed to get a cab home because I drank too many PBRs in the sun. In one afternoon with friends my dreams of philanthropy and shoes and mansions is squelched.
No matter, Thee Parkside always comes through for the next time I decide to "watch my spending" and dream big.
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12/28/2007
Nothing says holiday cheer like going to a dive bar and drinking on Christmas and who am I to mess with tradition at this stage in the game? I have been steeping in this tradition for as long as I have been able to flash my fake ID and order a screwdriver.
However, this year my family decided we should shake up Christmas tradition a bit. My sister actually showed up and spoke to us, my mom made lasagna for dinner, I didn't drink (having finally learned, after many years, the easiest way to escape quickly is sober) and not one person threw anything.
The last in the bunch is probably due to the fact that we were too busy looking for my dads present for hours on end since my mom made the mistake of hiding it while completely blotto, but I'll take not having to dodge some sort of heavy object any way I can get it.
Anyhow, these series of events led me to say "Gosh, maybe I should shuck tradition and do something different this Christmas. Yes, forget that lonely dive bar in SF. This is clearly a year of change. I will go to a dive bar in Alameda instead!!"
Boy, am I glad I made some changes! How else would I have discovered that you would not get yelled at for breaking a 25-cent pool table on Christmas? I never would have had the opportunity to buy an extra pack of smokes from one of those old school cigarette machines. The knowledge that the "Hot and Slutty Gang Bang" DVD, along with a few cute and fuzzy teddy bears were now available via a claw machine would have been lost on me. I now know exactly where hangover square is located after searching for it on maps for years and I know once Patty, the bartender, knows you your $3.25 mixed drinks will be so strong you will have a need for hangover square the next day..... at 6AM, when they open!!!
If all of this wasn't enough Pop Inn has karaoke on Tuesdays, and this year Christmas was on a Tuesday. Did the KJ take the night off? No way!! He was there, screwing up song selections, making bad yet entertaining jokes, and dealing with the skipping CDs (due to the totally unstable floor in the bar) just like he is every other Tuesday of the year.
So, thanks Pop Inn, for a great Christmas evening. Save me some Gin for Easter, I will be back!!
(415) 448-7328
Sweet Ride
Categories: Bakeries, Food Stands
Neighborhoods: Hayes Valley, Civic Center/Tenderloin, SOMA
The idea of a cute mobile bakery in what looks like an old Postal Service mail truck gone all girly seems like a great idea, and I am not one to shun the street food, but along with the idea of mobile goodness in the form of sugar you must deliver.
The to die for banana pudding was just not to die for. The Nilla Wafers were a nice touch but the pudding itself was a little more reminiscent of a whipped cream than a pudding.
Service was sweet and perhaps the cupcakes are the ingredient that could boost my rating. If I find them traveling around again I'll give one a try, but the proof was not in the pudding for me.
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 285-9728
Mecca Cafe
Categories: American (Traditional), Dive Bars, Breakfast & Brunch
Neighborhood: Queen Anne
Beyond that this place will fill the need if you are drunk and is sufficiently greasy if you are hungover, and is also there for you if you are merely working on one or the other, providing a full bar on the left hand side of the establishment.
Be prepared for what can best be described as formula bad attitude service... the type of payback that is supposed to endear you when you are buzzed and being a right pain in the ass yourself. If you are not being a pain in the ass you will still get this same level of unenthusiastic customer service, but, hey, you will still get served and that is all that matters sometimes, right?
** I am in no way implying that any of the people I have dined here with are cheap bastards, only being helpful since we all know one or two people who are.
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Then I found The Little Club. It is a little dingy, it is a little dark, it opens a little early (8AM), the bartenders are a little older, the patrons are more than a little seasoned in their drinking habits and the women's toilet is just plain little.
There are not a bunch of military guys in here, nor does this place draw the people who live in the houses that make this one of the most expensive neighborhoods to own a home in California. What you will find is a seasoned barfly or ten, a pool table and character.
In this little bar tucked between a fancy brewery and a fancy sports bar, across the street from one million plus dollar condos I have found one of the better true dive bars I have been to in the SD area.