Any dive bar with a great jukebox and Macallan 18 gets my vote.
The best place in the Mission for dirt cheap drinks and a good hang.
Scuzzy bar full of smoke yet has a charm as strong as the drinks.
Free chili dogs pretty regularly, cheap beer and always a place to sit. You've found a great dive bar!
Not a dive bar.
Great little dive bar not too pricey, the rest of the night was a blur after!
Great dive bar with really nice bar food! Try chicken sandwich and tacos with pickleback shooter.
A rapidly-changing menu and classic cocktails place Dear Mom a notch above your usual dive bar. If it's all too much, there's always Big Buck Hunter on the back wall ;)
Large space, weekend crowds but not debilitating ones. Good food. Good beer.
Cash only fun little dive bar
The most perfect Mission dive bar. Shuffleboard included, obvi.
A shuffleboard, lots of cheap beers, & a crowd that some might call rowdy but that we'd call spirited (in a good way) make this one of the funnest bars on Mission Street. Be ready for a great time. Read more.
Friendly local dive bar, great beer, and sweet bartenders. -Preeti Mistry, Top Chef
Stop what you're doing -- THIS is your new local. Full bar with an excellent array of quality beers, wine, and spirits, and the bartenders who know how to sling them. Read more.
look at the ceiling
Clean women's restroom for a dive bar
Pliny the Elder on draft! Damn good bar food, with awesome vegetarian and vegan options.
Try the alcohol.
Charming dive bar
Try the Margarita by Margarita with a little Grand Marnier. Killer.
Boobies in every painting on the wall.
Solid dive bar. Cash only. Read more.
Karaoke on Monday is AMAZING! (Dare I say better than The Mint... Much as I love that place!)
Make out with someone. Everyone is thinking about it but only readers of this tip are doing it.
Dive bar with pinball and a photo booth.
Live music upstairs. Pinball in the back. Strong drinks. Moscow Mules come in pint glasses.
Go to the Elbo Room in the Mission, and head upstairs to see the live music.
The Hendrix Martini is bomb here! Especially from Chloe & Kat!! xo 💋❤🍸
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SF Weekly's Best Of 2011 Winner - Reader's Poll - BEST DYKE BAR
Chill dive bar
Order a Duchesse de Bourgogne. Take a sip. Say nothing. Take a second sip. RESERVE JUDGEMENT! Take a third. If you still don't like it, I'll buy you a beer next time I see you.
The pizza and draft selection are good, and they have an outdoor patio and a pool table.
Don't drink the water!
Pizza. No nonsense.
Try the spicy Mission Martini or the savory Dutch Martini. Both are excellent when made extra dirty.
Get the blue shit
Blondie's means blackout time, every time. Try the blondalope.
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