best cocktails in SF, if you don't include sister bar bourbon & branch. vieux carre is my personal favorite. punch bowls great for large groups if you are lucky enough to find seating.
Avoid like the plague during weekday happy hour - too crowded with FiDi bros. Otherwise, expertly crafted cocktails and a fantastic whiskey selection. Nice atmosphere, too!
Get the Laphroaig Project and Penicillin if you want awesome Scotch cocktails
Fantastic food and a whole range of Whiskey!
Great service, amazing food an good atmosphere, that suits a well made whiskey cocktails. Try the Hamachi Shitake
With 450 bottles of whiskey at display there's a lot to look at if you sit in bar. The staff knows what they are talking about and are very friendly and helpful. The whiskey cocktails are amazing too!
Amazing cocktails, fabulous bartenders and hard to find libations (read: Charbay Whiskey II, Doubled & Twisted, etc). Always a good time!
A date night that’s drinks-focused is still a date and the location should be chosen wisely. Bourbon and Branch is the right atmosphere with mood lighting, cozy booths, and creative minds tending bar. Read more.
Cool speakeasy w/ fantastic cocktails (especially of the bourbon variety) made by knowledgeable mixologists. Cool library-esque decor. Enter through the left-most unmarked door for general admission.
Both the bourbon and beer clubs are great!
Whiskey, craft beer, and hummus. Plus extras. What more could you want? I love this store.
go browse the amazing beer and whiskey selection
Excellent selection of bourbon, with bottles from $20 to $200, and it's all very good. Read more.
Amazing selection of bourbon & other spirits
Awesome selection of Scotches and Bourbons! They'll gift wrap it for free. Excellent customer service!
Beer battered rockfish sandie!!! Great cocktails and if you like bourbon and whiskey they have a great selection
great shops nearby in the haight area, specials listed on chalkboard, great place for whiskey drinks.
Shorter lines than Bi-Rite and the ice cream flavors are so different. Try the Secret Breakfast (Bourbon and Corn Flakes) and the Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee - those are a MUST!
Order the brown sugar fennel along with the secret breakfast. The combo of bourbon, cornflakes and brown sugar is delicious
Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee & Sweet Breakfast Bourbon Cornflake flavors will have you sayin OH MY GAWD!!!
Great, strong cocktails in the loungey basement of the Hearst Building. I like the Eagle (bourbon, homemade root beer syrup, soda).
Great scotch/ whiskey/ bourbon selection.
Nice speak easy that offers great selection of whiskey. Great for people watching.
A curated selection of the most amazing wines, whiskey's, coffees, teas and cheese/chocolate delicacies. Serving free coffee on Saturday's as well.
Best selection of craft whiskey & craft spirits in SF. Very fair prices and hard to find whiskies. Great selection of artisanal cheese, pantry items and oils and vinegars. Amazing sandwiches too!
Best selection of craft whiskey and craft spirits in SF. Best prices I've seen around too! Apparently they deliver free through Instacart!
Get the Dark and Stormy, a nice mixture of ginger beer and bourbon
As its name suggests, this sleek bar in a gentler section of the Tenderloin specializes in rye whiskey and specialty cocktails made with rye and other spirits.
Great for unique bourbon and rye and the bartenders are very knowledgeable
Get the bourbon chipotle bloody marys
Loads of delicious cocktails and a really solid selection of whiskeys.
The improved Tokyo is great. A little Japanese whiskey and a little sake + wasabi.
Great whiskey, beers, tequila and atmosphere.
Some of the best whiskey sours in town
whisky is always the best choice. awesome bar, awesome selection.
Secret breakfast with bourbon caramel sauce is delicious
Get the Bourbon Flavor!
The Whisky in Church is smokey, smooth and delicious.
"Whiskey in church" is excellent.
Great whiskey and cocktail selection. Enjoy with the kimchi fritters - SO good.
Located inside bourbon and branch. Reservations only. (4 of 4 petals via Fondu) Read more.
The cocktails are more experimental than Branch and Bourbon. Some of the best cocktails I've ever had
Highly recommend the three cocktail flight (now $35 or $13/cocktail). Also have Pappy van Winkle bourbons on hand (!!)
Lovingly made in NYC, CHI, SEA & LA