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Bear-focused SoMa bar with a pool table, patio, and DJs.

Neighborhood gastropub with $25 bottomless mimosas for two hours.

Plane-crash-themed tiki bar with dense jungle foliage and dim lighting.

1937 Chinatown dive with a dangerously strong Chinese Mai Tai.

A sultry underground supper club bringing nightly jazz back to the historic Tenderloin.

Cruisy SoMa leather-and-dance bar with a back patio.

Bond-lair cocktail spot with red velvet and lunar-inspired drinks.

Castro bar for show-tune queens with Musical Mondays.

Thai fine-dining spot famous for its pandan parfait with salted coconut cream

Femme-centered bar bathed in sultry purple light.

A three-story pirate ship of a tiki bar with 70-plus rums and flaming drinks. Tiny, dark, theatrical. Get there early or wait.

Tiki kitsch in the Fairmont basement: an indoor lagoon and a thunderstorm every half hour. Absurd, expensive, unmissable once.

Tiki done seriously: a volcano that erupts, elaborate rum drinks, and a wait. Book ahead, order something on fire.

Plane-crash-themed tiki bar with dense jungle foliage and dim lighting.

Vintage neighborhood tiki dive pouring strong scorpion bowls.

Cavernous Chinatown dive with a giant gold shrine and the famous Chinese Mai Tai that will end your night. Dark, weird, perfect.

Seven floors of modern and contemporary art behind that rippling white facade. Do the living wall and the rooftop sculpture terrace even if you only have an hour.

Nineteenth-floor sky lounge atop the Mark Hopkins, 360 over the city since 1939. Dress up, order a martini, get the window seat.

The Painted Ladies postcard with the skyline behind them. A green hill to picnic on while every tour bus in SF rolls past.

39th-floor cocktail lounge atop the Marriott with floor-to-ceiling windows over downtown. Get a window seat at dusk and watch the lights come on.

Rooftop bar at the Proper Hotel with fire pits and a wraparound view. Buzzy and design-y, the kind of place that makes a date feel like an occasion.

Covered, secluded rooftop deck with wood-fired pizzas under twinkle lights.

Playful Filipino-American cooking and natural wine in a colorful Mission room.

Fifth-floor Hotel Zelos terrace with fire pits and a buzzy cocktail crowd.

Sunday brunch on a tree-filled patio with endless bubbly, breakfast martinis and drag.

21st-floor rooftop atop the Beacon Grand with vinyl tunes and downtown vistas.

17th-floor Latin rooftop with Bay Bridge views

12th-floor lounge atop the Canopy by Hilton

Barbary Coast time travel. Tin ceilings, a live piano some nights, and proper old cocktails. Sit at the bar and pretend it's 1907.

Speakeasy behind an unmarked door, password and all. Pressed-tin ceilings, serious cocktails, a library room in back if you reserve.

The oldest bar in SF, 1861, a survivor of the great fire. Live blues nightly, sticky floors, zero pretense. History you can drink in.

Art bar on Divisadero famous for Prince vs Michael Jackson dance nights. Eclectic, sweaty, joyful. Costume-optional.

1930s supper club with live jazz, martinis, and buttoned-up old-school charm.

Jazz venue and restaurant known for golden-brown crackly-edged sambusas.

A sultry underground supper club bringing nightly jazz back to the historic Tenderloin.

A purpose-built modern jazz cathedral with steep, intimate sightlines and world-class acoustics.

An elegant North Beach jazz room and restaurant with nightly live sets in a classy setting.