Future Bars News Today

The storied watering hole, closed since 2020, is coming back with drag performances.

It’s that time of year again: sifting through the hundreds of new SF Bay Area restaurants and bars visited this year — plus a few hundred more internationally and across the U.S. Here are the San…

Alongside June’s full restaurant reviews — Kiln, The Madrigal, For the Record, Rendezvous, Pizzeria da Laura and Original Joe’s North Beach — these seven are also worth visiting. As always, I’ve…

Alongside June’s full restaurant reviews — Kiln, The Madrigal, For the Record, Rendezvous, Pizzeria da Laura and Original Joe’s North Beach — these seven are also worth visiting. As always, I’ve…

In case you hadn't heard, two new nightclubs are headed for downtown San Francisco, with the owners banking on the fact that the wholesale-abandonment-of-SF story has been overblown.

This winter we shall see the opening of a new bar and jazz venue from the group behind Bourbon & Branch and other cocktail spots. And it's a revival of a legendary speakeasy turned legit nightclub from the 1930s and 40s, in the same spot where that venue resided.

Acre will open this fall in the former Oliveto space in Oakland’s Rockridge...

Drink up the history of American whiskey in kitschy collectible decanters at SF's Bottle Club Pub

A couple of Future Bars alums, Barry John Walsh and Janice Bailon, are bringing some 1970s disco and funk flair to the Cow Hollow space that was formerly home to Michael Mina's Test Kitchen (and more recently U:Dessert Story).

James Ace says he would be five years further down the track if he'd taken advice earlier.