The Hotel Utah Saloon

The BEST VALUE in SoMa. Seriously, your dollar goes super far here and the food, drink, and service is excellent. I had 6 or so PBRs and 5 chicken wings on a Wednesday night (1$ wing night) for like $30 after tip. An incredible deal for SF. As for the bar itself, it’s historic, Well kept, and overall a (somewhat aged) class act. Very nice. Get the wings for sure! Plenty of beer on tap too besides PBR. Will be coming back again some time!

Very mixed feelings about this place. When I first booked with them, they offered artists 10% of the bar sales during the set. I asked my friends, The Traumacides to join me, and they agreed. Two weeks before the show, I get an email from them telling me they no longer pay 10% of the bar and I need to rely on tips and merch sales. Fine for a Wednesday night, but two weeks before a show is virtually impossible to find a replacement show. I stick to it. The other band, The Traumacides backed out but nobody told me. I can't blame them. I wish they would have told me before doing it arbitrarily. When I got there, parking was decent and I got a parking spot in front, and it looked decent, so I s stayed. The chef even fed me a bowl of celery leaves, which is very healthy. I thank him tremendously and appreciate it. When it was almost time to start the show, I realized the other band was late or not coming, but I proceeded anyway. I asked the bar manager about setting up for the PA system and he knew nothing about it, but I set up anyway. I asked again 15 minutes before show time and he flat out told me there is not going to be any sound guy that night, so I played without any mic. I was about to pack up when there were actually people into my sub-genre of music (psychobilly) who came for the show. I was not going to disappoint. I played for 2 hours, no mic and only earned tips, which I made about $20 for a whole night. The ONLY redeeming factor about it was the people who actually listened to my sub-genre of music showing up at the last minute fie the show. Had that not happened, I would have rated them 2/5. Had there been a sound engineer there, I would have been generous and rated them 4/5. Had someone from the establishment pitched to the crowd that I am on tour and need to earn tips, even though they weren't paying me and didn't have a sound guy, they would have easily earned 5/5, but the fact that they treat bands like this really irritated me and I do not recommend bands play at this venue. Skip San Francisco (all big cities) all together unless you're getting paid. Don't be like I was that day and think it'll be OK. It was not. This venue does not value touring bands Vegetarian options: I ate a whole bowl of Celery leaves here. That's the best feature of this venue