SoMa, San Francisco · bar
Art Deco lamps, a glowing sign that still reads "DANCING COCKTAILS ENTERTAINMENT," and nightly jazz anchor the basement of the Monadnock Building, where a speakeasy first opened in the 1930s. The whiskey program spans rare Yamazaki, Pappy, and other hard-to-find bottles, organized into 11 tasting flights, while cocktails like The Hot Seven—rye, Génépy, lime, and Maraschino—show just as much finesse.