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Drinking
21
Caffe Trieste
CAFE
Poetry on bathroom walls, opera on the jukebox, live accordion jams weekly, and sightings
of Beat poet laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti: this is North Beach at its best, since the 1950s.
Linger over espresso and scribble your screenplay under the Sicilian mural just as young
Francis Ford Coppola did. Perhaps you've heard of the movie: it was called
The Godfather
.
(
415-392-6739;
www.caffetrieste.com
;
601 Vallejo St;
6:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, to 11pm Fri & Sat;
;
8X, 10, 12, 30, 41, 45)
22
Specs Museum Cafe
What do you do with a drunken sailor? Here's your answer. The walls are plastered with
mementos from the Merchant Marine, and you'll be plastered too if you try to keep pace
with the salty old-timers holding court in back. Surrounded by nautical memorabilia, your
order is obvious: pitcher of Anchor Steam, coming right up.
(
BAR
415-421-4112; 12 William Saroyan
Pl;
5pm-2am;
8X, 10, 12, 30, 41, 45,
Powell-Mason)
23
Comstock Saloon
BAR
Cocktails remain period-perfect in this Victorian saloon; the Pisco Punch is made with real
pineapple gum, and martini-precursor Martinez features gin, vermouth, bitters and maras-
chino liqueur. Call ahead for booths or tufted-velvet parlor seating to hear dates when
mezzanine ragtime-jazz bands play. The adjacent dining room offers decadent roast duck
pot pie and a rabbit three-way (terrine, rillette, chicken-fried).
(
415-617-0071;
www.comstocksaloon.com
;
155 Columbus Ave;
4pm-2am Sat-Thu, from noon Fri;
8X, 10, 12, 30, 45,
Powell-Mason)
