Zeitgeist

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Just how popular is Zeitgeist? Rumor has it that the dayshift bartenders make over a grand in tips on sunny Saturdays.

Metered spaces are typically available on the surrounding blocks.

The city's de facto biker bar is patronized by tattooed Mission hipsters, bicycle-riding twentysomethings, blue-collar dudes in thermal shirts, and, of course, motorcyclists, most of whom favor crotch rockets to Harleys. Though you could hang out indoors by the pool table, the long wooden trestle tables on the enormous outdoor patio are the place to sit—every underground artist comes through...

Leather-clad bikers, Critical Massers, bike messengers, Mission slackers and the tamale lady making the rounds—a literal smorgasbord of SF’s party people. Huge beer garden in back with picnic benches and BBQ. Juke blasting punk, rock and country tunes. And a guesthaus, too!? On a sunny day there's no better place in the city to fritter away the day with a big spliff and a pitcher of Boont.

The front door is black, the back door is adorned with a skeleton Playboy bunny, and inside is packed to the rafters with tattooed, pierced, and hard-core-looking partyers. But forge on. Zeitgeist is such a friendly and fun punk-rock-cum-biker-bar beer garden that even the occasional yuppie can be spotted mingling around the slammin' jukebox that features tons of local bands or in the huge back...

Stepping into Zeitgeist, you can imagine what a dime-a-dozen dive it would be--a few pinball machines, a pool table, signs like ""The place for warm beer and cold women,"" and ""Hangovers installed...

Zeitgeist is a bar and guesthouse offering guests an outdoor deck, BBQ and over 20 German beers. Hotel rooms are located right above the bar and priced at $30 a night. Among some of the beers include Hubsch Marzen Hubsch Hefe-weizen, Spaten Premium Lager, Steelhead Pale Ale, Paulaner Hefe Weizen and Lind Drake's Ale, to name a few.