Bar Part Time is a listening bar in The Mission, San Francisco.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. The natural wine list is the room's first identity; the DJ booth runs later, with no cover on most nights.
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Address: 496 14th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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TipReservations recommended for the dining counter; vinyl DJs spin from 19:00. The kitchen runs late, so listening sessions stretch past 22:00.
The 500 Club sits at Guerrero and 17th in SF's Mission, a corner dive with a neon martini sign over the door, cheap drinks and a back room of regulars.
TipBloody Mary at 06:00 on weekends is a Mission tradition. The room runs cash; the back room is the locals' corner, not the front bar.
Zeitgeist on Valencia in SF is a German beer garden and Mission dive with a backyard the size of a city lot, 60 taps and a kitchen turning out cheeseburgers.
TipCash bar only; the patio sets at picnic tables. The kitchen runs Bloody Marys all weekend and shuts the grill by 23:30 most nights.
Kissakeko is a 400-square-foot vinyl-only jazz kissa on Nob Hill, pouring artisanal sake into six to eight seats with no streaming and a selected record.
TipOpen Monday and Thursday through Saturday; one seating per session. Quiet listening is the unwritten rule; no phones at the bar.
Side A on 19th Street in SF is the vinyl listening bistro from Parker Brown and Caroline Brown, pairing Californian and Midwestern plates with DJ vinyl sets.
TipReservations recommended for the dining counter; vinyl DJs spin from 19:00. The kitchen runs late, so listening sessions stretch past 22:00.
Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe sits down an unmarked alley off Columbus in North Beach, a sailors' and poets' bar since 1968 with maritime relics and cheap.
TipKnock on the yellow door at 250 Columbus to find it. Cash bar runs faster; the back booths are the local seats, not the bar.
Vesuvio Cafe on Columbus in SF, across Jack Kerouac Alley from City Lights, has been the Beat-generation bar since Henri Lenoir opened it in 1948 with two.
TipUpstairs balcony has the best people-watching over Columbus. The bartender will pour a Jack Kerouac cocktail to anyone who asks.
The 500 Club sits at Guerrero and 17th in SF's Mission, a corner dive with a neon martini sign over the door, cheap drinks and a back room of regulars.
TipBloody Mary at 06:00 on weekends is a Mission tradition. The room runs cash; the back room is the locals' corner, not the front bar.
Zeitgeist on Valencia in SF is a German beer garden and Mission dive with a backyard the size of a city lot, 60 taps and a kitchen turning out cheeseburgers.
TipCash bar only; the patio sets at picnic tables. The kitchen runs Bloody Marys all weekend and shuts the grill by 23:30 most nights.
