0 Amsterdam Café, San Francisco, California
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Amsterdam Café
Exceptional based on 9 ratings
Type: Bar

937 Geary St
San Francisco, California United States 94109 [ print map ]
415 409 1111

amsterdamcafesf.com

Hours: Mon-Wed, Sun 8am - 1am; Thu-Sat 8am - 2am


Mayor: prawlie (3) | Taps: 15 | Bottles: 135


Amsterdam Café

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Beer Available At Amsterdam Café (arranged by most recent)
J.W. Lees Harvest Ale 99, Alaskan Pilot Series: Baltic Porter 99, Green Flash Imperial IPA 99, 21st Amendment Sneak Attack Saison 79, Ommegang Scythe and Sickle Harvest Ale 95, Ballast Point Victory at Sea 100, Alaskan Smoked Porter 99, Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA 99, Sierra Nevada/Dogfish Head Life & Limb 98, Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA 97, Stone Imperial Russian Stout (Bourbon) 100, Mikkeller Spontankriek 92
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9 reviews for Amsterdam Café
 Ambiance  78%
 Service  80%
 Selection  81%
 Food N/A 
 Value  78%
 Overall  73%
 Rating  83%


74
  AMBIANCE 4/5   SERVICE 7/10   SELECTION 12/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 7/10   OVERALL 14/20
t0rin0  (184) La Verne, California | March 24, 2013
Visited March 22, 2013.

Cool place. Great music (got to hear some Danzig and a few other good bands before leaving). The tap list is interesting but confusing since they don’t believe in putting the brewery name on the list. Took a few minutes to figure out what they all were and realized that a good chunk of them were Ommegang beers, not that that’s a bad thing. Saw a couple of interesting new beers as well. If I had some business in this area I’d stop back in, and eventually I will since Pine Street Brewery will eventually open and it will need to be ticked.

Be warned that this place is cash only, though like Toronado there is an ATM in the building.
82
  AMBIANCE 4/5   SERVICE 8/10   SELECTION 13/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 8/10   OVERALL 16/20
prawlie  (41) , England | March 20, 2013
Nice bar for a late night drink, friendly enough with a good selection and decent prices.
46
  AMBIANCE 3/5   SERVICE 6/10   SELECTION 13/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 8/10   OVERALL 1/20
badlizard  (130) Berkeley , California | December 10, 2012
Great selection at reasonable prices. Wish I could have had a beer here. No credit cards. I should have anticipated that it would be cash only since it’s in the Tenderloin (if you don’t know the City, imagine any post apocalyptic wasteland and you’ll have an idea of the neighborhood). Yeah, they’ve got an ATM, but getting hit with bank fees isn’t really a convenience to me. The short of it: if I’m walking out of your beer bar without a beer, you’ve got problems. Skip it. Go to City Beer. They have all the same selection (and more), and they take credit cards. So while Amsterdam gets points for selection, they lose points for being cash only, being in terrible location, and for making me walk through the Tenderloin only to leave without a drink.
80
  AMBIANCE 4/5   SERVICE 9/10   SELECTION 10/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 8/10   OVERALL 17/20
Toerstig  (28) Uppsala, Sweden | February 9, 2012
Great knowledgeable personnel with a good eye for service. Besides that they have a good beer selection.
82
  AMBIANCE 4/5   SERVICE 8/10   SELECTION 13/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 10/10   OVERALL 16/20
tiong  (31) Espoo, Finland | January 28, 2012
A nice, quite small place a few blocks away from Union Square. A nice selection of local and American craft beer on tap and a quite large selection of small bottles as well. Very cheap prices, especially for some of the bottled beers. Be aware that they only accept cash.
94
  AMBIANCE 5/5   SERVICE 10/10   SELECTION 14/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 6/10   OVERALL 18/20
magdalar  (16) Zurich, Switzerland | December 4, 2011
I love this place. It’s always laid back, and never really crowded. The bar staff is friendly and knowledgable, and will encourage better beer selections to the numerous people that come in asking for Stella or Bud (they don’t even carry any of the standard American rice beers) -- but never pretentious, just helpful. They used to also do hookah, but no longer. Food policy is "bring what you’d like", though it’s always polite to ask first (and please, avoid things that stink up the place -- I’d like my beer not to smell of garlic).
74
  AMBIANCE 3/5   SERVICE 8/10   SELECTION 10/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 7/10   OVERALL 16/20
bernatbeer  (72) barcelona, Spain | October 9, 2011
Bar pequeño con acceptable carta de cervezas.Lo visite durante el sf beerweek ,para un evento de dogfish head.
68
  AMBIANCE 3/5   SERVICE 6/10   SELECTION 9/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 8/10   OVERALL 16/20
WeeHeavySD  (111) San Diego (Hillcrest), California | March 25, 2011
This place is far from a fantastic beer bar, but it has both a pretty solid tap list and a more than decent bottle list. Place itself is somewhat small and cramped with a lot of hooka smoking going around. Ended up drinking a bottle of Fantome Saison, for only $15, which is really not a bad markup for Fantome.
96
  AMBIANCE 5/5   SERVICE 10/10   SELECTION 15/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE N/A   OVERALL 18/20
PlanetTripper  (1) San Francisco, | April 22, 2010
The bar is fairly new but the owner Kelly is very enthusiastic about becoming a beer geek’s destination. They have 150 beers to choose from and they are working up to 200. If they don’t have your beer they will order it. And they have at least one event a week. Give ’em your love!

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