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Top choice in North Beach & Chinatown


The walls here are plastered with merchant-marine memorabilia, and you'll be plastered too if you try to keep up with the salty characters holding court in back. Surrounded by seafaring mementos – including a massive walrus organ over the bar – your order seems obvious: pitcher of Anchor Steam, coming right up. Cash only.


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1. Portsmouth Square

0.19 MILES

Chinatown's unofficial living room is named after John B Montgomery's sloop, which staked the US claim on San Francisco in 1846. SF's first city hall…