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Drinking
15
Smuggler's Cove
BAR
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum…or wait, make that a Dead Reckoning cocktail with tawny
port, Nicaraguan rum, bitters and vanilla liqueur, unless someone wants to share the flam-
ing Scorpion Bowl? Pirates are bedeviled by choice at this shipwreck-themed tiki bar, hid-
den behind a tinted door. With 400 specialty rums and 70 well-researched cocktails, you
won't be dry-docked for long.
(
415-869-1900;
www.smugglerscovesf.com
; 650 Gough St;
5pm-1:15am;
5, 21, 49,
Van Ness)
16
Bourbon & Branch
'Don't even think of asking for a cosmo' reads one of many house rules at this revived
speakeasy, complete with secret exits from its Prohibition-era heyday. For top-shelf gin and
bourbon cocktails in the library, give the bouncer the password ('books') and you'll be led
through a bookcase secret passage. Reservations are required for front-room booths, and
worth it for chats minus the usual bar din.
(
BAR
415-346-1735;
www.bourbonandbranch.com
; 501 Jones St;
Wed-Sat by reservation;
Geary St)
Local Life
Heart of the City Farmers Market
The savviest wheeler-dealers aren't in City Hall - they're over at the
farmers market
(
OFFLINE MAP
,
E4;
www.hocfarmersmarket.org
;
United Nations Plaza; 7am-5pm Wed & Sun, to 2:30pm
Fri) , where California producers set up shop in UN Plaza amid the usual skateboarders, Scientologists and raving
self- talkers. These stands yield heirloom organic raspberries for $2 a pint and cold-filtered virgin olive oil for $8 a
