California

Locals love to scorn this huge, multilevel black-painted club, but there's nothing like hearing a big-name DJ on its fantastic sound system. On the main dance...more

This large, warehouselike space is a gallery and performance venue as well as a bar and club. In the main room, eccentric local art is displayed. On the dance...more

With copper-topped tables, checkerboard-tile floor, and antique mirrors, genteel Absinthe evokes a French brasserie of the Belle Epoque. Its excellent cocktail...more

This Moroccan-themed bar on the border of Hollywood and Silver Lake attracts a mixed crowd of casually dressed gays and straights. Often supercrowded, it can...more

Perched 22 stories up, atop the Gaslamp Marriott, Altitude is San Diego's highest outdoor bar—a vantage point that affords sweeping views of the bay,...more

Local nightlife entrepreneurs Vintage415 command crowds of beautiful people with slick venues, good drinks, and stellar DJ lineups. Their latest venture, the...more

Skip the tired dinner theater of Teatro Zinzanni popular with other tourists, and instead visit Asia SF to admire its gender illusionists. Unlike drag queens,...more

Gen Xers to boomers love the elegant but relaxed atmosphere of this cool bar/restaurant with rich leather couches, dark woods, high ceilings, an upstairs...more

Situated in an authentic 1920s speakeasy, Bourbon & Branch is SF's answer to New York and London's Milk & Honey—an unmarked watering hole in...more

Dozens of votive candles cast a honeyed glow upon coppery tequila-hued walls and neo-tropical wallpaper inside this cozy Latin art salon and "culinary...more