Travel Reference
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Drinking
18
Buena Vista Cafe
BAR
Warm fog-chilled toes with a goblet of creamy, bittersweet Irish coffee, introduced to
America at this destination bar with the nerve to serve dainty drinks to sailors and cannery
hands. The creaky Victorian floor still takes a pounding nightly from carousers and famil-
ies, served community-style at round tables overlooking the Victoria Park cable car turn-
around.
(
415-474-5044;
www.thebuenavista.com
; 2765 Hyde St;
9am-2am Mon-Fri, 8am-2am Sat & Sun;
19, 47,
Powell-Hyde)
19
Gold Dust Lounge
After losing its Union Square location it had occupied since the 1930s, this local institution
was swiftly revived in 2013 on the Wharf with the same precarious Victorian brass chande-
liers, red-velvet bordello decor and twangy rockabilly band. Come for strong drink and
salty banter with local characters.
(
BAR
415-397-1695;
www.golddustsf.com
; 165 Jefferson St;
8am-2am;
47,
Powell-Mason,
F)
20
Winery Collective
WINE-TASTING ROOM
Ditch supermarket standards and discover new favorite indie wines with tastings at this
California small-producer showcase. Featured wines vary, but popular flights range from
sublimely spicy Copain Anderson Valley Pinot Noir to single-vineyard Pinot Blanc
custom-blended for foodies by the crafty sommeliers at Boulevard.
(
www.winerycollective.com
;
485 Jefferson St;
noon-9pm;
Powell-Hyde)
21
Jack's Cannery Bar
BAR
