Steff's Sports Bar

SoMa, San Francisco –

Easy walking distance from the high rises towering over Downtown, Steff’s Sports Bar is a relaxed dive with lots of TVs and very little pretense.

Mostly mellow during the week, the joint is popular with financial types who often sneak in during lunch, shedding their ties at the dark wooden bar and sipping a few Buds under the approving eyes of the local sports legends whose photographs cover the yellow walls.

The daytime crowds swell when there’s a Giants game, however, when more than a dozen flat-screens and two projectors highlight the marquee match-up in the main room, and avid throngs hoot, holler, and choke their way through piles of free popcorn.

When the local team isn’t playing, fans of every ilk can usually find their game on at least one of the TVs, or escape to the adjacent pool room for a chance to definitively prove that the secret to a good game of billiards is lots of beer.

A much-used dart board invites losing fans to focus their anger over that dropped pass, while young prepsters and older blue-collar regulars look on over their plates of corn dogs.

Just steps from the city’s business center, Steff’s Sports Bar is a prime destination for Downtown lovers of sports, beer, and cheap bar food.