Bar & Cocktail History Tour with Top Drink Writer

Learn the history of San Francisco's bars and most popular cocktails on this walking tour of the City’s former waterline, business district, and Barbary Coast, and share a drink at a restored saloon.

San Francisco, Cultural tours

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What you’ll do

This experience is hosted in English.

4.98 out of 5 stars, from 62 reviews

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, 3 days ago

The tour was very enjoyable and an insightful exploration of the history and evolution of the saloons and cocktail bars of San Francisco. Intriguing tales of the old West days of San Francisco being a gold miner’s and sailor’s playground of dance halls, saloons and other places for “recreation.” The tour walks through the lower financial district and ascends to the Barbary Coast area adjacent to Chinatown and North Beach - it’s an easygoing walk with several resting points. The tour guide is lively and informative and the tour concluded with a sampling of one of San Francisco’s native cocktails in a nostalgic saloon. Overall the tour was nicely organized, very intriguing and suitable for adults 21+

Kristen

California, United States

, 3 weeks ago

Camper is a very entertaining and educational host! We thoroughly enjoyed his tour of the spaces and places relevant to San Francisco's bars and watering holes of days gone by. We especially loved having a drink that was invented by a colorful figure in SF's past at one of the last saloons left dating back to the late 19th century! We highly recommend this fun and interesting experience!

Kelly

Sebastopol, CA

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Where we’ll meet

Across from the Big Map on Commercial Street

San Francisco, California, 94111

About me

Cocktail and spirits author and educator

I’ve been San Francisco’s leading cocktail journalist for nearly 20 years and love sharing the city’s wild and wacky drink culture and history. My work has appeared in Popular Science, Food & Wine, Saveur, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more than 50 other publications. I am the author of two books- one about the history of alcohol and medicine, and the other about making really really good looking ice cubes

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