SF's dives are living history — a cash-only North Beach museum-bar, a red-lantern Chinatown cave with a secret mai tai, and grumpy beer temples with no-photos rules. Dim, stiff, and stuck in time in the best way.
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A cash-only North Beach institution since 1968, crammed with maritime bric-a-brac and Beat-era memorabilia. Dim, unpretentious, and fiercely beloved for cheap, stiff drinks with zero attitude.
Dive bars are one chapter of Pip's Lifestyle — find the whiskey bars, lounges, steakhouses and the Domino Club below.