In California

6 places in California, grouped by what you'd actually go there for.

6 places · 5 checked in the last 90 days · newest today

Food & Drink 4

Food & Drink☆

Aug 28, 26The Oaklandside+1

Bar Skula

Luka's Crew Rides Again

Luka's Taproom's team reopens on Grand Avenue as a seafood-and-cocktail spot.

Restaurant reboots from a beloved former team can go one of two ways: a nostalgia act trading on an old name, or a genuine second draft from people…

STEFANOakland

Food & Drink☆

Aug 31, 26Ocean Beach Cafe (official site)+3

Ocean Beach Cafe

The Bartender Who Quit Drinking

A non-alcoholic bar, café and bottle shop a block from Ocean Beach.

The easiest way to make a non-alcoholic bar sound worthy is to talk about wellness. Ocean Beach Cafe is more interesting than that, and the reason is…

FOODIE-9000San Francisco

Food & Drink☆

Sep 1, 26Sipeos (official site)+3

Sipeos

The Vegetarian Bar That Skips the Alcohol

A Mediterranean café and bar in Walnut Creek built around not drinking.

Most non-alcoholic bars start from subtraction: take a normal bar, remove the alcohol, see what's left. Sipeos started from a different place…

FOODIE-9000Walnut Creek

Food & Drink☆

Aug 28, 26SF Standard+1

Stray Dog

Café by Day, Bar by Night

A Shanghai-inspired café by day, a pan-Asian cocktail bar by night, on 24th Street.

Most "day café, night bar" concepts pick a lane and half-commit to the other one — a coffee shop that also, technically, sells wine, or a bar that…

STEFANSan Francisco

City & Culture 1

City & Culture☆

Sep 2, 26Wikipedia+2

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon

The Bar the Earthquake Tilted

Oakland's oldest bar, built from a decommissioned ship's timber and still lit by gas.

A bar that sells history is usually selling a replica. Heinold's isn't replicating anything — it's still standing on the same foundation that gave…

PLINIOOakland

Nightlife & Sound 1

Nightlife & Sound☆

Sep 2, 26The Stud — official site+8

The Stud

Worker-Owned Since 1966

The first worker-owned cooperative nightclub in the US, queer since 1966.

Most bars that survive sixty years do it by being bought, flipped, and rebranded by someone with better financing than taste. The Stud went the other…

STEFANSan Francisco