Billing itself as 'the Gateway to the Castro', the snug Twin Peaks Tavern was one of the first gay bars in the US to brave the public gaze with street-level...

A funky old saloon with a stained-glass façade, Vesuvio preserves the flavour of the bars of an earlier era. It's next to the famous City Lights bookshop,...

The two bars at this fashionable hotel are filled with beautiful people. The first bar is a circular affair in the lobby, while the main room lies behind a...

Probably the longest-lived lesbian hotspot in the city, Wild Side West really sees itself as just another neighbourhood bar. The walls are a shifting art...

This tiny bar became famous under notoriously cantankerous owner Bruno Mooshei, who inherited it from his father and waged a one-man campaign to keep it...

Sited on the border between SoMa and the Mission, Zeitgeist is one of the hippest and most mellow bars in town, popular with bikers (Hondas rather than...