Badlands #1 San Francisco Gay Club
This is where the party seems to be every night in San Francisco. I was in San Francisco over the holidays and it was packed with people every single night. Badlands had great music and a cute little dance floor. The bar/club is way congested but it is a place to be if you want to socialize in San Francisco. Badlands is definitely the best place to go for dancing in the Castro since there is nothing better in terms of size of a dancefloor or music that I noticed in the area.
The Boy Bar Night @ The Bar:
This is a night where they have younger dancers on stage at the bar off of Market and Castro next door to Subway. The boy bar night is held on Thursdays.
The Café – is the really red looking club you see on the Castro. I wouldn’t call this small place a club it is more of a room with a small hallway like dancefloor and a patio for smokers. The Café is very trendy and seems to be mixed with some straight people as well as gays.
Friday Nights (after 11pm or so) and Sunday Mornings –
EndUp (401 Sixth Street @ Harrison) – the EndUp looked scary from the outside and kind of scary on the inside and had a jacked up dancefloor which seems like you are dancing inside someone’s attic. The EndUp had a really cool outside patio and a few rooms to venture into. I would not take any party favors to the EndUp they have someone at the front door asking what every little thing in your pockets are like you are going through a TSA line. That alone makes that club suck.
Saturday nights:
If you are going out in the Castro area on Saturday I recommend Mezzanine for the  circuit crowd and Badlands for the drinking and dancing crowd. Then there is the EndUp for early in the morning.
Tuesday night – Tranny night at Stud Bar. This was quite a night that gave San Francisco a different taste than any other city. It was so much fun because there were so many short shows put on by different drag queens that were very creative and fun. Be prepared to be stuffed into this small bar where you cannot get a drink or move to goto the bathroom. The people were rather jerks if you wanted to come back from the bar or from the bathroom from the spot that you previously had. I guess there is no movement allowed during the Tranny show at the Stud Bar.
Other Castro Bars:
Metro City Bar & Grill (3600 16th Street @ Market) – fun bar with a view and a nice revolving crowd.
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