Wayfare Tavern

Address: 558 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, CA 94111, United States
Tel: +1 415 772 9060
Website: view Wayfare Tavern’s website
Door: Open door
Style: Gastro bar
Food: Set menu

Review

The Wayfare Tavern has a traditional, gentlemanly feel to it – lots of leather, wood, and casual taxidermy. The bar itself is new, but the building has been a restaurant since it was rebuilt after a major earthquake in 1906. Legend has it that there are the remains of a gangster buried below the building from when the foundations were laid.

Downstairs, there are two bars – one focuses on cocktails, the other on eating. Both have unusually wide working spaces between the counter and the back bar - apparently it’s federal law that new bars need wheelchair access. Upstairs, there’s another bar and a large seating space for diners.

There’s a small selection of bottles behind the bar, and a similarly bijou cocktail list where all manner of bitters are liberally employed in the drinks. All were well-executed and served with a silver bowlful of home-made crisps, a pleasant and informal space to have a drink with friends.