🎷 Jazz & low lights

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.