VENUE

WHERE

TELEPHONE

WHAT

WHAT TO DRINK

BEEN THERE

HOW MUCH

111 Minna

Minna@2nd

Art gallery and swinging club scene

Wine and recreational drugs from home.

Qool, Loveworks; Looq Hard, Oxygen

$$

330 Ritch Street

Ritch@3rd

541-9574

A real swingin' scene, a taste of the 80's

Something blue

Popscene, Acme Swing Co.; Rebirth

$$

Annie's

20 Annie St.

777-9444

Non-neighborhood neighborhood bar

Martinis and Mint Juleps

Punk Rock Karaoke

And a photo booth

$

Bimbo's 365 Club

Columbus@Chestnut

     474-0365

Classic SF coolness. The setting of  Chris Isaac Show

Mermaid water.

Super Diamond, The Donnas; naked mermaids

$$$

Biscuits and Blues

Mason@Geary

292-2583

Name says it all

Something to wash down your yam fries.

Tommy Castro

$$

Bottom of the Hill

17th St. @Texas

621-4455

BBQ, rock and roll and the best small-club sound system in town.

Cheap Bud

Naked Barbies, Bikini Kill, Billy Nayer Show

$$

Brain Wash

Folsom@8th St.

861-FOOD

Suds, duds and tunes

Odwalla and Sierra Nevada

Flynn Cohen, The Ian Brennan Show; stand-up comedy

$

Cafe Du Nord

Market@Hayes

861-5016

Life really is a cabaret, my friend

Extra, extra dry Gibsons

Jim Campilongo, Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

$$

Great American Music Hall

859 OFarrell

885-5075

Haunted rock club.

Draft Beer for 4 bucks.

White Stripes, Robin Hitchcock, David Cross. A ghost…really.

$$$

Spanganga

Mission@19th

821-1102

Underground music, theater and comedy

Shots at Baobab before and after the show.

Spiegelmania, 2Good4u, Bride of Ozzy, Scabaret, Oui Be Negroes

$

Covered Wagon Saloon

Folsom@5th St.

974-1585

Sleazy cheese at its best

Jaegermeister

Camel Toe, Romeo's Dead

$$

DNA Lounge

11th St. @Folsom

626-1409

11^th Street dance club.

Harvey Wallbangers

Sixxteen, Nina Hagen

$$$

Make-Out Room

Mission@22nd

647-2888

Big bar, Big stage, Big drink specials

Whiskey and a Beer

Devil in the Woods and Bitch Magazine issue toasts. Jonathon Richman. Kitten on the Keys. The Devil-ettes.

$

Elbo Room

Valencia@11th

552-7788

Funky Mission spot, they have a photo booth

Bottled beer and shots

Andrew Bird, Bopcity, Starlene

$$

El Rio

Mission@Precita

282-3325

Beer, bands and Karaoke

Pabst

Zmirzilina; The Amazing Embarrasonics—every 1^st Saturday.

$

The Fillmore

Geary@Fillmore

346-6000

Concert Hall/Shrine

Cheap wine

Strangefolk, Wilco; Junior Brown; Tenacious D

$$$

Kelly’s Mission Rock

817 China Basin

243-0580

Bay Views, hot tunes, cool drinks

Bay Breeze

Spundae, Attaboy and Burke

$$$

Hemlock

113 Polk

923-0923

Cigar room, pool table, eclectic mix of bands and performers

Bourbon

Bride of Ozzy, The Slings

$$

Hotel Utah

4th St.@Bryant

421-8308

Mooseheads and new bands

Anchor Steam, Makers Mark

My Tribe, Jean Gutler Band; PJ Harvey

$

Butter Bar

11th@Harrison

Cool bar tragically filled with date rapin’ frat boys

Lots of beer

White Trash nights; Frat Boys getting kicked out

$

Jelly's Club Havana

Pier 50

495-3099

Cuban dance club

Cuba libre

Los Rumberos; Club Judah

$$

John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room

Fillmore@Geary

673-8000

Boogie Chillen

Southern Comfort

Wayside, Funky Beulah and, *sniff* John Lee Hooker

$$

Last Day Saloon

Clement@5th

387-6343

Old School Rock’n’ Roll Bar

Bottom shelf whiskey

Superbooty, Tainted Love, Vinyl

$

Lou's Pier 47

300 Jefferson

771-LOUS

Blues on the wharf

Something in a snifter

Rhythm King, Bob Webb

$$

The Mad Dog in the Fog

Haight@Fillmore

626-7279

Shagadelic English pub

Newcastle pints, Carlsberg pitchers

The Reducers

$

Mick's Lounge

Van Ness@Union

928-0404

Sweet, sweet candy

Sex on the Beach

Tainted Love

$$

Paradise Lounge

Used to be Folsom@11th

Don’t bother.

My favorite club is no more. Boo hoo!

Coffee drinks sans whipped cream

The coolest bands ever!

Red Devil Lounge

Polk@Clay

921-1695

Yeah, baby, yeah!

Sammy's and Cosmos

Wonderbread 5, Pop Rocks, Thunderpussy

$$

Slims

11th@Folsom

522-0333

Now the coolest of the 11th Street clubs

Cheap Rolling Rock

El Vez, Kim Deal, Petrol

$$

Odeon Bar

Mission@Valencia

550-6994

Chicken John’s clubhouse for freaks and geeks

Tiki drinks

Please Leave the Bronx, Mark Growden, Atta Boy and Burke.

$

Lion’s Pub

Divis@Sacramento

567-6565

Cheese platters and spinning tunes

Scotch

Susan MacTavish Best

$$

Storyville

Fulton@Masonic

441-1751

All that jazz

Tom Collins

Double Trouble, Jungle Biskit

$$

Tip Top Inn

Mission@26th

824-6486

Tiny place with good tunes

Draft beer

Dinosaur Salad

$

Zeitgeist

13th St@Valencia

Beer garden, biker bar, punk rock bartenders

Moylans

Zeitgeist Film Festival, Joey Ramone Memorial

$$

Baobab

19^th @Mission

776-1928

Loud world beats and Ginger Hibiscus margaritas

Fleur or L’hiver

Spanganga performers and near-by dance class spill-over

$

Broadway Studios

435 Broadway

291-0333

Hip Hop, jazz, laser shows and dance lessons

 Champagne

Felonious, Move to the Groove

$$$

The Attic

24th@Mission

Small bar with weird lamps and even weirder bands.

Margarita

Bitches Brew, The Six-Million Dollar Band

$$