Bars in Polk Gulch

a friendly Polk Street wine bar, good easy-drinking wines

a password-required speakeasy, TLC cocktails (and ~$18 prices)

a local bar-meets-club venue, house DJs across all genres

a warm neighborhood dive (cash only), a well-stocked bar + a jukebox

a spacious no-frills dive by the Regency Ballroom, pinball, pool, and a jukebox

a dark Polk-area sports dive, shots of Fernet, naturally

free karaoke upstairs, a copper-topped bar and TVs

Spanish wine, sherry and vermouth, Asturian cider poured from on high

exposed brick and a fireplace, a driftwood bar with Tarantino flair

industrial-chic Polk lounge, a small, inventive cocktail list

vintage arcade games, cheap highballs and 90s music

art-deco styling, cocktails and a dance floor

18 ciders on draft plus global bottles, a sunny second-floor window perch on Polk

bi-level with a pool table, a piano upstairs

a big neighborhood saloon, walls of TVs, pool table and old-school arcade games

corner neighborhood bar + kitchen, late-night eats

waterbed booths, porn loops on TVs

daily happy hour deals, beer-and-a-shot place

Polk Street gay bar from the pre-Castro era, gay-themed art on the walls

70+ wines by the glass, biodynamic and low-intervention focus

converted railroad dining car welded onto a Polk Street facade — actual streetcar interior, open until 4am — one of SF's most reliable late-night options

in the former Hemlock Tavern space, two levels: open karaoke bar upstairs, DJ dance floor in the basement