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Clubs in San Francisco

The Parlor

Bar / Club / Lounge / Sports Bar

Party Earth Review Located in tourist-heavy Fisherman’s Wharf, The Parlor is equal parts dance club, sports bar, and classic cocktail lounge. Daily Happy Hours entice preppy young Giants fans from the nearby Marina to drop in for a game and a Bud, not to mention the tidal waves of out-of-towners making a pit stop before hitting the area’s ... more

2801 Leavenworth Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

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Elbo Room

Bar / Club / Live Music Venue

Party Earth Review Home since the 1930s to a Spanish restaurant, a cowboy bar, and even a women’s nightclub, nowadays the Elbo Room is all about eclectic music and nightly Happy Hour specials. Reminiscent of a bordello, the space draws neighborhood hipsters early in the evening, who belly up to the bar to down PBR tallboys in the red hue ... more

647 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

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MatrixFillmore

Bar / Club / Lounge

Party Earth Review Opened in 1965 by Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, MatrixFillmore (formerly The Matrix) once featured some of the biggest bands of the flower-power generation, including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, and many other formative members of San Francisco’s rock scene. After undergoing many incarnations since the original ... more

3138 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94123

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Cat Club

Bar / Club

Party Earth Review A popular watering hole for tatted metalheads and over-pierced punks, Cat Club is a twisted dance hall where karaoke, bondage, and 80s pop live together in perfect harmony. Motown nights, regular wedding ceremonies, and who knows what else fill the rest of the docket, but one thing’s for sure – even though the clientele ... more

1190 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

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John Colins

Bar / Club / Lounge

Party Earth Review Located on the ground floor of a brick office building and accessed via a narrow alley just off Montgomery Street, John Colins is a popular little club with Happy Hour specials characteristic of a casual neighborhood bar. Murals of coastal scenes and mounted surfboards combine with impressionistic cityscapes to create ... more

138 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

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Club NV

Club

Party Earth Review One of a handful of SoMa clubs that cater to the eighteen and over crowd, Club NV – aka “Club 525” – attracts a markedly younger set of college-age revelers with its ever-changing rotation of special events and loud dance music. A décor awash in shiny chrome and multicolored strobes ... more

525 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

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Ruby Skye

Club

Party Earth Review It began as The Stage Door, an 1890s-era playhouse whose long life included everything from entertaining soldiers during WWII to showcasing the premiere of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but since 2000 the renamed Ruby Skye has become synonymous with festive clubbing and world-class DJs in San Francisco. The venue’ ... more

420 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

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Madrone Art Bar

Art Gallery / Bar / Club / Lounge

Party Earth Review With its Burberry-plaid and gold-plated AK-47 over the bar and a mirror-covered bomb standing in for a disco ball, Madrone Art Bar already eschews the typical club look. Add to this a jumbled hodgepodge of paintings, sculptures, and video displays, a few snaking wooden chandeliers, and wildly varied music, and it’s no wonder ... more

500 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

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Monroe

Bar / Club / Lounge

Party Earth Review The remnants of old Hollywood live on at Monroe, an upscale lounge that infuses a little classic celebrity glamour into the hard-partying North Beach scene. With ubiquitous dark wood flooring, sleek low banquettes, and wall-sized fashion and art tapestries bearing everything from galloping horses to sultry models, the venue ... more

473 Broadway Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

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Temple Nightclub

Nightclub

Party Earth Review A multi-level club featuring three dance floors, Temple Nightclub lets its diverse patrons party it up for Mother Earth, with wall-to-wall eco-friendly lighting and a rooftop composter that helps keep nearly three-quarters of the venue’s waste from the landfill. Plus there’s sushi and hot dogs inside. Hallelujah! But ... more

540 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

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Double Dutch

Bar / Club

Party Earth Review For those who worship Wu-Tang and roll their eyes at Lil’ Wayne, who think Young MC’s Bust a Move should be sung in church, and who rank Brooklyn’s 80s break dancing scene as their own version of Shangri-La, then it doesn’t get much better than Double Dutch. True, the venue is dark, cramped by design, and eye-blinkingly ... more

3192 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

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111 Minna Gallery

Art Gallery / Bar / Club

Party Earth Review With stark white walls, gnarled wooden sculptures, and wide-open dance floors, 111 Minna is what might happen if an art gallery and bar/restaurant gave birth to a club. During the day, the two-room venue doubles as a gallery, attracting erstwhile creative types and trendy intellectuals with widely varied rotating exhibits ... more

111 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

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SF Clubs Overview

The Parlor - Bar | Club | Lounge | Sports Bar in SF

No, it’s not the club capital of the world, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a host of clubs in San Francisco to choose from when planning a night out.

The highest concentration of traditional San Francisco clubs is in SoMa (South of Market), North Beach, and around Union Square Downtown. Plenty of swanky nightclubs offer a see-and-be-seen atmosphere, while long-standing institutions like Ruby Skye are so expansive they have room for everyone on the dance floor.

Cool underground jazz clubs and blues clubs are easy to find in The Mission, while those looking for a guaranteed upscale evening (that will no doubt degenerate into an anything-goes fest after a few drinks) need look no further than the Marina clubs.

Big warehouses in SoMa have been cleaned out since the dotcom madness and replaced with massive multi-level DJ dance clubs, and even a few 18+ clubs have popped up in this area too.

The Castro, of course, is where to go for a bumping gay SF club scene, although that nightlife scene is flourishing out into SoMa as well – especially the hardcore leather and S&M clubs. But hey, it’s San Francisco, a city known for letting it all hang out.

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