Fun and entertainment California

A must for those seeking the best views in town. The decor of this bar on the top floor of the Marriott in SoMa is absolutely magnificent. Its interior architecture and windows alone are a work of art. You can climb in just for the pleasure of admiring the view. Reservations are recommended for dining. Grilled fish, barbecued pork and prawn tacos are served at reasonable prices. But you can also stop here to sip a cocktail while enjoying the view.

In front of the BART station, a brick building where you can come for a drink or a very good pizza or a big salad while listening to a live band. The program extends all week long, and is rather jazz oriented. Its main asset? The beer garden style outdoor patio, heated in winter and sunny in summer. The best place to remake the world while sipping your glass. On the menu: delicious craft beers, alternative drinks and good bottles of wine.

At the foot of the Columbus Tower and beneath the official offices of Francis Ford Coppola's film studio, we love the relaxing, timeless and undeniably Italian atmosphere of this establishment. The menu is simple but authentic: Neapolitan pizza, linguine alle vongole or chilaquiles (delicious for breakfast). The wine list is almost exclusively Californian, with of course the Godfather's Californian vintages. If you're lucky, you might even bump into the great Coppola at the table - I hear this is his cantine!

Built in 1998, the Crypto.com Arena - formerly the Staples Center - is a huge complex that cost some $375 million to build. Originally, the arena was only dedicated to the famous Lakers and Clippers basketball teams and was also the home of the Kings field hockey rink. But its capacity of 20,000 people has also positioned it as an essential venue for hosting huge American-style concerts and shows; for example, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber have already performed here.

In January 2013, San Francisco opened this center dedicated to jazz performance and education. The structure, a $60 million architectural project, was designed by Mark Cavagnero and houses a 700-seat auditorium, three rehearsal rooms, a digital music lab and a restaurant. The SFJAZZ season, in addition to the jazz festival and summer sessions, includes more than 400 performances a year in the San Francisco Bay Area. The concerts have gained international recognition, so it's best to book your tickets in advance.

One of the best bar-restaurants in the heart of downtown. Specializing in original and delicious cocktails, the bar offers live music five nights a week, information regularly updated on the site about this. To test: theirOld School Bloody Mary. Excellent welcome and relaxed atmosphere in an intimate setting reminiscent of speakeasy style bars! Indeed, the place and the menu would be a reminiscence of the 20's. An address to remember to start your festive evenings in Sacramento.

Founded in 1964 by Mario Maglieri, Elmer Valentine and Phil Tanzini, this is a legendary venue where legendary bands from the Doors to the Kings, The New York Dolls and Led Zeppelin have performed. Guitars here are usually used to play hard rock. Although Whiskey A Go Go - purposely spelled without an "e", as 1960s Los Angeles laws forbade clubs to be named after liquor - is clearly living off its heritage, the independent bands that still perform on stage are worth a visit.

On Hayes Valley's bustling square, you'll find this little wooden shack that offers a wide selection of cold-pressed juices (often from vegetables), and is a must for locals. After a jog or for an energizing and sunny break, succumb to the delicious green elixirs, cleverly dosed and packed with vitamins. Ginger, turmeric or even celery juices are yours! Last but not least: in addition to being good, these juices are excellent for your health. They are even particularly recommended for people with a fragile liver.

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1911 and resident since 1980 at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of the city, has a worldwide reputation. The programming is very varied and the acoustics are perfect. The orchestra's awards and honors include an Emmy Award and 15 Grammy Awards over the past 26 years. After 25 years of conducting the orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas stepped down as conductor in 2020 to take over from Esa-Pekka Salonen of Finland.

Audium is the place where sound, space and deep immersive experience meet. This "theater of sound" proposes to intensely explore music and the spatial dimension of sound, thanks to a multi diffusion installation. Today, Audium has become a true center for spatial art, which has set itself the goal of amplifying perceptual awareness of the space and sounds that surround our society. It is a canvas for artists, playing with technological and creative boundaries. The pieces proposed are however of uneven quality.

It is a real institution in San Francisco and one of the favorite bars of the locals. The specialty of the Buena Vista is theIrish coffee, invented here in 1952 by the bar's owner Jack Koeppler and Stanton Delaplane, a journalist from the San Francisco Chronicle. A mixture of hot coffee, whiskey and cream, the recipe has never changed, but has spread all over the world. And the waiters of the Buena Vista Café have served, according to the house accounts, more than 30 million Irish Coffee. To be tasted in its original version!

This is the historic North Beach bar, located next to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Bookstore. Founded in 1948, it was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, as well as Bob Dylan and Francis Ford Coppola. Cosy decor with walls lined with paintings, posters and photos. Perfect to immerse yourself in the bohemian atmosphere of the early 60s. To complete the picture, the pedestrian alley shared with City Lights is called Jack Kerouac Alley.

One of San Francisco's great concert halls, from 1965 to 1968 it was the epicenter of creative music in the San Francisco Sound. During the 1967 Summer of Love , the venue produced some of the most innovative and provocative music in the Bay Area. The Grateful Dead, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart, The Who and Otis Redding were all heard there. Among the more recent stars to have trodden the Fillmore's stage are Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Radiohead, The Cure, The White Stripes, Ali Farka Toure...

Cult bar-club of the LGBTQI+ community of East L.A., it is a friendly place, uninhibited and without taboos, where respect and good atmosphere reign. On the dance floor, bodies come alive to disco and sweet pop. Unfortunately, as everywhere in Los Angeles, the party stops way too early: when the DJ turns on the neon lights at 2am, the crowd spills out onto the sidewalk, happy and drunk... And it's here that the most unexpected encounters take place. All in all, Akbar is an emblematic place, a promise of a good evening.

One of the oldest establishments in San Francisco. Opened in 1913, it belongs today to the Plumpjack group of the former mayor Gary Newsom. Old-fashioned brewery decor where young and old alike crowd together for a drink on weekends. Hard to move among the golden boys and girls of the neighborhood, it is nevertheless a good address to drink a beer in a relaxed and noisy atmosphere. Special mention for the salmon tacos and the fried chimichurri, but also for the martini expressos and the bloody marys.

Located close to the famous Angels Flight Railway, La Cita - French for "the rendezvous" - takes its customers on a Latin American evening. Originally Mexican, this friendly bar plays a mix of cumbia - a type of music and dance from Colombia - 1990s hip-hop, salsa and reggaeton. There's a good-natured atmosphere: here, people dance without judgment, whatever their level. There's no shortage of people to meet on the patio, the beer is cold and the guinguette atmosphere is very pleasant.

This tiny, exotic bar, where tiki kitsch reigns - a fashion inspired by Hawaiian style in the 1950s - has been around since 1961. Nothing, or almost nothing, has changed: the cocktails - for which the recipes have always been the same - are fruity and devilishly measured, the glasses are carved from fake totem poles, and smoking was still the order of the fifties until recently. Around the counter, loaded with gurgling fountains and figurines of mermaids and wahines, are many aficionados of the tiki style, looking as if they'd stepped out of an old Hollywood film.