Bars in San Francisco

San Francisco's SoMa cocktail scene has emerged as one of the most creative in the world — a neighborhood where the tech industry's enormous wealth and the Bay Area's extraordinary creative culture create cocktail bars of global ambition and technical sophistication. The Mission and SoMa neighborhoods' concentration of creative talent drives consistent innovation in SF's bar culture.

Smuggler's Cove is San Francisco's celebrated tiki bar and rum destination — a three-deck Caribbean pirate ship-styled bar with 550+ rums and a cocktail menu considered essential reading for spirits enthusiasts. Named one of the best bars in the world, it has done more to educate American drinkers on rum's complexity than any other single establishment.

Toronado is one of America's most legendary craft beer bars — a Lower Haight dive bar with an extraordinary rotating tap list that has been presenting outstanding craft and import beers to San Francisco since 1987. Its extraordinary beer knowledge, its genuine dive bar atmosphere (no frills, no reservations, no nonsense), and its role in establishing San Francisco as one of America's craft beer cities create a bar experience of genuine cultural significance.

Trick Dog is one of America's most awarded cocktail bars — a Mission District SF bar consistently appearing on the World's 50 Best Bars list for its extraordinary seasonal cocktail menus (themed as subway maps, astrological charts, and Pantone color books) that have established San Francisco as one of the world's great cocktail cities.