High Tide Cocktails at Jones and Geary
Happy New Year to All. In my first post of 2008, there will be no resolutions or tips on how organize your life, but I will direct you to a another great place to have a drink in the San Francisco Bay Area. In my last post, I wrote about Bourbon and Branch, a luxury style in San Francisco's Tenderloin bar, but right up the block is one of the City's great and true dive bars; the High Tide.
This is a place where you can see the true diversity of San Francisco. As I entered on my last trip in, Mexican music play from the jukebox, probably for the one patron sitting at the bar. The bar breasted oil painting over the cash register gives a tacky feel, but good tacky. There is a pool pool table and the drinks are cheap compared to other bars two blocks away in Union Square.
This is a true neighborhood bar that welcomes all into it's corner location at Jones and Geary. There is no dominate group in this bar, this is a place about the people. You get a true cross section of San Francisco's population from the blue collar to the hipsters. If you walk to the bar you may have to deal with the working women that dot the neighborhood. Once inside, on occasion a homeless person will wander in, but the staff has a lot of experience and deals with these situations very fast. Speaking of the staff on my visit it was three Korean women staffing the place, look to be the owner and two bartenders they are very entertaining and friendly.
The Tenderloin has always had a reputation of being a rough and tumble neighborhood, but this establishment will break from that tag. This is a very accepting and friendly bar with Suits, Working Class, Asians, Hispanics, Africans, and drunks all together having a wonderful time. Not a place to go when you're not dressed up heading to the Theater but if you are thirsty for a drink or on a small budget give it a shot.
Average cost of a call cocktail $6.
This is a place where you can see the true diversity of San Francisco. As I entered on my last trip in, Mexican music play from the jukebox, probably for the one patron sitting at the bar. The bar breasted oil painting over the cash register gives a tacky feel, but good tacky. There is a pool pool table and the drinks are cheap compared to other bars two blocks away in Union Square.
This is a true neighborhood bar that welcomes all into it's corner location at Jones and Geary. There is no dominate group in this bar, this is a place about the people. You get a true cross section of San Francisco's population from the blue collar to the hipsters. If you walk to the bar you may have to deal with the working women that dot the neighborhood. Once inside, on occasion a homeless person will wander in, but the staff has a lot of experience and deals with these situations very fast. Speaking of the staff on my visit it was three Korean women staffing the place, look to be the owner and two bartenders they are very entertaining and friendly.
The Tenderloin has always had a reputation of being a rough and tumble neighborhood, but this establishment will break from that tag. This is a very accepting and friendly bar with Suits, Working Class, Asians, Hispanics, Africans, and drunks all together having a wonderful time. Not a place to go when you're not dressed up heading to the Theater but if you are thirsty for a drink or on a small budget give it a shot.
Average cost of a call cocktail $6.
