Beer on the Bay
by Jon on May.08, 2007, under Babble, Food & Beverage, Music, My Trip to Mecca
Falling behind on the California photos & posts — where does the time go? Well here’s a quick one –
As mentioned, I made a run up to San Francisco on the Sunday night before heading back to Santa Clara for the convention; meanwhile, Mike had arrived a few days earlier and was in ‘Frisco as well. So we met up at a bar on pier 23 called, coincidentally I’m sure, Pier 23. Let me preface by saying that the sensitive liberal feminist in me almost feels guilty for posting the following, but the testosterone filled juvenile in me wins. Besides, they gave us these postcards free and I don’t have any other pics of the place. Plus we sent one just like it to Cory :)
Anyway, it was a cool place, we got to look out over the bay from their outdoor patio, listen to some live jazz, and get acquainted with a tasty local brew called Anchor Steam. We would become very acquainted with those over the week — well, those and Sierra Nevada, which is already one of my usual favorites, but as it turns out it’s brewed about 200 miles away in Chico, and seems to be on tap everywhere you go out there.
We wound up coming back to Pier 23 for dinner Monday, though mostly because we just happened to be near by when the time came. But back to Sunday, later that night we found our way to Tiernan’s Irish Pub:
Tiernan’s was the first of at least two if not three (the memory gets a little fuzzy…) Irish pubs we would hit before the week was out, but it was by far the best. This one featured a live band churning out some raucous Celtic drinking music:
The band featured the one I called Zebra Girl, a short little fireball in an all-zebra-striped outfit who sang and wailed on the accordion with the frenetic energy of a punk rocker, often standing I think on a table or something. She was actually in this picture off to the left, but I had to crop her out because she got wiped out by the shadows.
Sidebar: some random dude bought us both a beer. At another pub the bartender hooked us both up with a free shot. I think I like hanging with the Irish :)