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“100-plus-year-old San Francisco institution”
The Hotel Utah Saloon is a 100-plus-year-old San Francisco institution in the midst of a reinvented, reinvigorated SOMA neighborhood. We have 12 tap beers, a handful ofselect wines, and a full bar, accompanied by a full menu of fresh-made tasty food. Our separate stage area features independent live music 7 nights, and some weekend days. Monday nights we host one of the longest-running, biggest and best open mics in town. The rest of the week is a variety of local and touring bands—check out acts you may know, or will want to know, in our intimate setting with our state-of-the-art sound system. Many weekend brunches are accompanied by free shows, from bluegrass and country to talented student showcases It was built in 1908, when the Barbary Coast was still going strong. 1908, the year Bette Davis was born. The year of the first Model T. Twenty-eight years before the Bay Bridge. This bar was standing before, during, and after Prohibition. The Deininger family opened the saloon, and commissioned furniture makers in Belgium to design and create its ornate bar-back. They also served the city’s best beer, Fredericksburg, brought to The Utah by horse and carriage and lowered into the cellar in wooden kegs. Gamblers, thieves, ladies up to no good, politicians, hustlers, friends of opium, goldseekers, godseekers, charlatans, police, fancy miscreants — they all visited The Utah. And that was when South of Market was just a lonely section of the San Francisco waterfront. After the Bay Bridge was finished in 1936, SOMA came into its own. The saloon (and the hotel upstairs) was home to longshoremen, merchants, metalsmiths, furniture makers, with traffic flowing back and forth between San Francisco and the East Bay. Hard to believe that after a century a place can still have the same personality. In the midst of a neighborhood that has reinvented itself so many times, the Hotel Utah Saloon still glows with the mahogany bar, serves real drinks and real food to all comers, and provides a welcoming stage for independent local and national acts. The stories keep coming. Curious yarns with details we can’t go into. Come in sometime.
Yo this place was Litty up in the City, yah mean?! Came here against my will, to see my best-friend-in-the-whole-wide-worlds wife play some live music. I didn't order anything, at all, so I... Read more
BEST BUFFALO WINGS IN THE CITY!!! Tell me a better place.... I use to say mad dog BUT The Utah just does something different. Its a a dive bar! Very local, and on Wednesday they have $1 wings and... Read more
Fun place, full of quirks. No frills, neighborhood bar type place. So, no cocktail menu, and they might not even have all the ingredients for your favorite mix. But, plenty of beers and ciders... Read more
Hotel Utah Saloon
Hours
- Sun, Mon, Fri: 11:30 am - 2:00 am
- Tue - Thu: 11:30 am - 12:00 am
- Sat: 11:00 am - 2:00 am
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