GSB + Haas Pub Crawl tomorrow night
Joe Wadcan
I learned a great word while in Mexico - enemiga! While it sounds like a mix between enemy and amiga, it just means enemy. No more perfect word can be created to describe the GSB pub crawl tomorrow night. Come out and meet your fellow Bay Area MBAs.
If anyone wants to join me, I'm heading out with some enemigas from work at 7:00. I'll be at Tres Agaves, so if you want to meet up after just text me at845.323.9743. Plus I think we should make a Thursday night SF bar meetup a regular thing. Cal represent!
Hasta manana,
Jose
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Subject: Thursday Night Pub Crawl - SOMA
Just in case some of you were feeling like you weren’t getting enough GSB love time (it’s unlikely, but possible), I’d like to add one more summer tradition to the social calendar: Thursday night pub crawls where we’ll visit a new neighborhood in SF and frequent 4 of their finest watering holes.
Besides being a fun way to hang out, I think it’ll be a nice way to get to different parts of the city—While I’m planning the inaugural crawl, I hope others will plan out good nights in neighborhoods they’re familiar with in the future. The first crawl will take place in SOMA this Thursday. Key details are below:
When: 7pm Thursday 6/23
Where: We’ll start at Tres Agaves on 130 Townsend Street for margaritas and apps and then move on around 8:15PM to a bar list that our crack team of experts (i.e. me and Kaden) is putting together
Food: I’ll be grabbing food at Tres Agave but most places we stop along the way should have food
What if you can’t get there on time: You can either text me at 917-331-1348 (or follow me @adamnels on twitter) to find out where we are
Other: No need to RSVP…any friends welcome. Also if you have nearby bar recommendations shoot them over!
Fun Facts About SOMA:
South of Market is a huge district, sprawling from the Embarcadero to Eleventh Street, between Market and Townsend. The neighborhood is a patchwork of warehouses, swanky nightspots, residential hotels, art spaces, loft apartments, furniture showrooms and the tenacious Internet companies that survived the tech market collapse. Although a lot of building has gone on in recent years, it is still not densely developed. You can walk several desolate blocks before suddenly finding a hopping restaurant.
Most of the action can be found in three general areas: by South Park and the Giants ballpark, around the SF MOMA and Yerba Buena gardens, and over by Folsom and Eleventh Street. SoMa, as it's known, sounds a little like a SoHo wannabe, and it does have a strong downtown vibe. However, the name has its roots in the old nickname "South of the Slot," referring to its position on the "wrong side" of the Market Street cable car track when it was an industrial district of factories and Gold Rush immigrant workers.
These days the industry most associated with South of Market has to do with that other Gold Rush: the dot com boom. Once buzzing with purple-haired programmers and hobnobbing young executives, South Park is noticeably more subdued since the Internet companies started closing shop, and probably all the more pleasant for it. The grassy square is a nice place to walk your dog or eat a sandwich, and is bordered by several good shops and restaurants. In the summer the area gets more foot traffic as packs of Giants fans head for the ballpark. A handful of new restaurants have also opened to serve this crowd.
The western end of the district is the most industrial, and is dominated by huge wholesale marts and superstores like Costco and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Originally this made it an ideal zone for loud nightclubs, but as SoMa has become more residential some of the clubs have had trouble with noise complaints. However, this hasn't kept a crop of newcomers like Butter and Wish from opening in the past few years. The stretch along Eleventh and Folsom is the heart of the gay leather and S&M scene, which has its roots in the Folsom Street "Miracle Mile" of gay clubs and bathhouses in the '70s. This is also the site of the annual fetish bonanza of the Folsom Street Fair.
Joe Wadcan
7:00PM - Tres Agaves at 130 Townsend Street http://www.yelp.com/biz/tres-san-francisco#query:tres%20agaves
8:15PM - Paragon at 701 2nd Street http://www.yelp.com/biz/paragon-restaurant-and-bar-san-francisco
9:15PM - 21st Amendment at 563 2nd Street http://www.yelp.com/biz/21st-amendment-brewery-san-francisco
10:15PM - Nova at 555 2nd Street http://www.yelp.com/biz/nova-bar-and-restaurant-san-francisco