SF’s Best Christmas Pop-Up Bar Comes Back Next Week
The concept behind San Francisco's Deck The Halls is a bit cringe — but it's a frivolously festive staple that offers a warm hug., time after time.
‘Tis the season for all things upbeat and jovial. (Well… it’s almost that season; let’s get through Thanksgiving first before we start looping in Mariah Carey.) And there’s something inextricably esoteric when the December holiday season descends on San Francisco.
Drag queens skate on ice. Massive gingerbread houses pop up inside swanky hotel lobbies. The temperature chills, requiring us to all wear slightly thicker outerwear.
Among the other seasonal tickets that unwrap this time of year are holiday-themed pop-up bars — perhaps the only iteration of the “Instagram-worthy” ploy worth praise. Of the dozen that temporarily open in SF a...