3 bars in Oakland, editor-picked for bars open past midnight friday or saturday. Bars going past midnight on friday or saturday. All bars in Oakland.
Sobre Mesa ★ 4.5
uptown · 1618 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612
Hours: Tue-Thu 17:00-23:00, Fri-Sat 17:00-00:30, Sun 17:00-22:00
Sobre Mesa on Franklin in Uptown Oakland is Top Chef Nelson German's Afro-Latin cocktail lounge. Dominican rum and Latin cocktails alongside up-tempo music.
Cafe Van Kleef ★ 4.3
uptown · 1621 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612
Hours: Tue-Thu 18:00-24:00, Fri-Sat 18:00-02:00
Cafe Van Kleef on Telegraph in Uptown Oakland is the famously eccentric cocktail dive that helped revive the corridor in the 2000s. Greyhound is the call.
Eli's Mile High Club ★ 4.2
north-oakland · 3629 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA 94609
Hours: Mon 16:00-01:00, Thu 16:00-01:00, Fri-Sat 16:00-02:00, Sun 16:00-01:00
Eli's Mile High Club on MLK Way has been a Bay Area blues bar since the 1970s. Now a dive, a music venue, and a kitchen with daytime fried chicken too.