| Monday | |||||||||
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| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| Matrix | Top40 | Mei-Lwun | Industry night | Making your bartender from another bar drunk | |||||
| Foley's Inn | Wild guitar improv | The army that refuses to die | There are no quitters If you get too plastered, they will let you pass out in the decrepit Inn upstairs | ||||||
| Utah Saloon | Beware of the 9PM live muzak | noon-9PM = machine 9PM-1AM = live and not always pleasant | People who like to drink to the extent of crossing the city to be there | Second oldest joint in SF still standing | |||||
| Tuesday | |||||||||
| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| [temporarily retired nd converted to a Cowboy Saloon?] Ambassador | [was House - to be re-researched] | 2-dollar beer night crawlers | Barely-legal students everywhere, so come in early | ||||||
| Balboa Cafe | Is there music? | Untamed Marina cougars | People are in as early as 9, and on Friday everyone is visibly unsteady sirca 3PM PST | ||||||
| Tunnel Top | Marengo | People who like to drink on Tuesdays | Cash-only plus tiny balconies so poorly fit for dancing over the heads of hard-drinking Popeyes | ||||||
| New John Collins | Perpetual HipHop | we suspect - iPod | Exhausted engineers from nearby grown-ups club | It's there and not going anywhere | |||||
| Rumors | Karaoke | local vocal | Singers and drinkers + some industry | You can sing for free there without being taken out and brutalized in the alley | |||||
| Wednesday | |||||||||
| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| Infusion | Top40 | Sebastian's Wednesday night (it's a promoter, not J.F.Sebastian from Blade Runner, who's dead, duh!) | Fully loaded starting as early as 10-10:30 | ||||||
| Monarch | As random as your mood swings | Crowd as random as is the muzak | 3 floors, also booms on Sundays | ||||||
| Royal Tug Yacht Club | mild electro | DJ/bartender Mack | Lot's of foreighers for reasons unknown | Built on the ruins of Ying Sun (spelling?) | |||||
| Minna 111 | Vague | Yappies | 2 bars, left and right, good place to pick up a new dork in town saoking in his own insecurities and investors' money | ||||||
| Thursday | |||||||||
| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| Slide
[Update: died and is replaced by something we have not seen yet. Yet.] | House | 50/50 ratio, you can't use the slide if you're wearing a skirt which is a total drag | Relaxing yet full | ||||||
| Ozumo | Mild house | The remaining city yappies that didn't die from hunger during recession | People who can afford Asian Fusion kitchen, getting ready for the next Roman Empire eve in Marin county | ||||||
| Harlot | Electro | Random people and their random companions | The opposite feeling of "let me punch you in the nose, I don't like you" | ||||||
| OMG | Karaoke | Lisa Rose | People cracking dance moves under questionable vocals | Mind-tempered which is rare in the city Beware of the 6th Ave zombies outside tho | |||||
| Raven | Top40 | Wall-to-wall crowd in small spaces with higher ceilings | Fancy-looking chamber-like bar where yet noone acts dramatic when you're ridiculously drunk and having good timezes | ||||||
| Friday | |||||||||
| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| Vessel
| used to be hiphop, now house | Disturbed girls in heels, and you can buy a glowstick at the door and be wildly popular | You can get laid there | ||||||
| Redwood Room (Clift Hotel) | Varies | Bona Fide Sausagefest | Opens at 3, never dies till 2 | ||||||
| Public Works | House | Younger crowd | 3 floors, closes at 4 | ||||||
| East-Side West | Top40 | MTV | Marina blondes, everywhere, everywhere! | Most mild-tempered door staff | |||||
| Mighty | Grunge | Dolce far niente folks in black | Closes at 4 | ||||||
| Sloane
[Update: Appears to may have seized its bright but short eXistenZe] | Varies | Eclectic somewhat South-East Asian mix | Founded by exiles from other nightclubs. This gets as close as being in a clubbing movie. | ||||||
| Parlor | Hiphop | Rougher crowd with strangely nice ambiance | Despite numerious reports there is indeed a much larger room right behind the front bar | ||||||
| Butter | 80s/90s | Collection of groups impossible to categorize | Full and joy-full. With jelly-shots. | ||||||
| Starlight Lounge | electrohouse | Frenchy Le Freak | Modernized meat market | Not everyone wearinga dress is necessarily a woman | |||||
| Saturday | |||||||||
| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| W-Hotel | Electro | Messedup crowd | Half of the people have keys
to their rooms upstairs. [new development]: check out the wild grill stand WITH SAUSAGES, right outside, on the 3rd street. But beware - they get sold out. If you're late, they still let you watch. We are still talking about SAUSAGES. | ||||||
| Supper Club | Too drunk to recall | People that are never the same | Not too crowded and often relaxing Round bar and a large dance floor in the back, and lie-down lounges to the right | ||||||
| Grand | House | Packed main floor with buttered girlsroom floor | Try to be there by 9:30, otherwise the line is ridiculous. And when inside - no, it wasn't the earthquake. | ||||||
| Drake
[ Replaced by Coin-Op Game Room, An Arcade Bar, same location ] | People who don't like Grand or don't like to marinade in the queue there | There a bar upstairs from which it's totally cool to fall inside the downstairs bar | |||||||
| Chambers (Phoenix Hotel) | Top40 | Completely random people none of whom stays in the hotel | Loaded starting 3pm, 2 midsize rooms, completely non-obvious. Sunday open till 2:30pm, probably for religious reasons, we don't really know. | ||||||
| Monroe [if closed, curve left, up the hill, you won't regret it] | You won't care | Everyone, literally | Fun starts at 6am, and technically it's Sunday | ||||||
| Sunday | |||||||||
| Venue | Music | DJ | Inside you'll meet | Catch | |||||
| Columbus Cafe | Wildest techno you can find in the juke | Tourists, distressed redheads, etcie | Ye boye! | ||||||
|
Otis
[ Replaced by the Iron Horse Cocktails, hours to be researched, same location ] | Grungy | Kevin Knapp and WERD gang | People who won't go to work tomorrow | Opens at 10 | |||||
| Cellar
[Upstairs still alive, but the main floor has been locked for quite some time now. Future status - unknown] |
Changes periodically | Grade A alcoholics before liver transplant | Start at SugarCafe upstairs, then roll in face down after 10 | ||||||
| new Kate O'Brien | old style juke, but there have been reports it's now replaced by a bartender-controlled Pandora | Randomness of the clientelle is mind-blowing | Sudden last call, so watch it at around 1:15am and ask questions | ||||||
| Cable Car Lounge | wild techno/electro | Tourists et al | Tips are already included in your bill | ||||||
| New Delhi | jukebox | Industry from nearby bars and pubs | Hidden gem of Sunday night - front is a restaurant, but at night it's actually a moderately-wild Sunday-bound bar | ||||||
