by Woodrow Rathert on This place is next to "the cellar", but since the cellar has a cover charge and sugar doesn't, sugar wins. The decor is nice - modern with shiny white bar tops, movies projected on the walls, decent music playing, and a cool fireplace. Specialty drinks were okay; a little on the sweet side but priced right. The crowd felt more touristy (read: safe) so we sat and hung out at the bar for the remainder of the night.
by Keneth Cooperwood on The Cafe is everything San Francisco night life should be. Great people, music selection, vibes, dancing, and friendly bartenders. On top of the great atmosphere, the place looks fantastic! The Cafe's renovation certainly bumped it up a notch. It's clean, chic, and glamorous. They have multiple rooms and THREE BARS. I love multiple bars within a bar! I bet all the straight dance clubs are eating peanut butter and jealous over The Cafe. My only issue is the smoking section. It's indoors, yuck. But it's got that open sky ceiling which is awesome. Too bad you can only see 2 stars in San Francisco.
by Grace Y. on Hmm, I would have given this place a solid 4 stars, except their bouncers are dickheads which doesn't really warm anyone up to the club on their way in. Regardless, I stopped by here to check out TORQ, a new monthly for the 18+ crowd. I've wanted to stop by here in the past to check out some of the trance headliners they fly out here Tiesto, Armin Van Burren, etc. but I didn't feel like it was worth a $40 cover to dress up and hang out with a bunch of fucked up people. Heels + trance = death. Anyways, I hopped on over and stood in their guestlist line for a while, even though I wasn't on their guestlist. The paid line was moving much faster and I was considering paying to get out of the cold, but decided to stick it out since there were a bunch of drunk girls in line around me and they were pretty entertaining. I met a friend who shared a guestlist spot with me...score! and went in to see what all the fuss was about. So the actual venue is really nice and they had good decorations up. The music they played was great all night, lots of anthems being thrown down. There was a good mix of dancing (more like high school prom grinding) and people standing around. The etards for the most part stayed where the giant bean bags were, or the benches upstairs. The drum and bass room was pretty chill as well, but it was where the smokers were at, so I didn't stay there for too long. $3 bucks for watered down pineapple juice was pretty shady. Hrrmph. I paid $5 bucks for a redbull and I wasn't allowed to bring it into the smoking room. I pounded it in front of the bouncer and burped, then went along my merry way. That's right, I went there.
