Much has been written about 540 Club, and for good reason.  As stated above, it is, in my opinion, the quintessential dive bar.  If you consider yourself a loyal patron of San Francisco dives, you’ve been to this bar.  If not – read on. The atmosphere is usually pretty mellow

Tonight, it’s gonna be like someone put a peep full of fun in the microwave and it exploded all over Public Assembly! Or, that the folks at Brokelyn are as psyched about spring as you are and want to throw a big ole party to celebrate, and help out the

You know my favorite kind of special? The kind that’s every day. That way, there’s no obligation to take advantage of a $3 slime green shot night special on a Sunday and start the week puking at work just because that was the only time you could afford to go

I don’t often hit up sports bars. Not because I don’t care about sports, mind you, but I don’t always have the desire to watch a game unfold due to the usual ineptitude of NY teams. Frankly, I don’t need to watch the Knicks/Jets/Giants/Mets/yes, even the Yankees crash and burn

Unfortunately my wine tasting palette is limited to the descriptors “winalicious” and “alcoholey”–aka don’t take me to nice things–but for some reason I can lay down like a motherf*cker when it comes to beer. Which is why I am obsessed with the weekly tastings at Jimmy’s No. 43. For $10,

I know how heartbroken many of you were when it was time to say goodbye to Four Loko, the widely revered and fondly nicknamed “blackout  in a can.”  If you haven’t been lucky enough to find a neighborhood liquor store that still miraculously has Four Loko in stock, not to

A venue that wants its shows to sound good as much as its paying customers do is mighty fine thing in my  “Why doesn’t this happen more often?” book. A venue that wants to throw a dance party and free beer hour while they’re at it is enough to make

Just in case you haven’t been following the saga that is the impending closure of SoMa mainstay, the Eagle Tavern, the Guardian’s Emily Appelbaum gives a pretty good run-down up until this point here. In addition, if you want to join in the rabble that have amassed to protest these proceedings, put