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916 Grant San Francisco, CA 94108

415-982-0072

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Best Predictor of a Rough Morning to Come
Award Winner 2013

916 Grant San Francisco CA 94108

Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-6pm

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Granted, the competition is slim, but Li Po is the hippest music venue in Chinatown. The dank little basement (below the divey old bar) hosts fringe punk, funk, electro, and rock for a fashionista set, in an environment that has all the cinematic charms of the shadowy old neighborhood.

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2013 | Best Predictor of a Rough Morning to Come

Like most bad decisions, it seems like a good one at the time. The charmingly shabby Chinese dive, Li Po, is known for one thing: a concoction called the Chinese Mai Tai. The drink is a lethal blend of Whaler's Rum, Castillo Light Rum, Bacardi 151, pineapple juice, and a mysterious "Chinese liqueur," which is given a quick whir in a blender and served frothy and cold in a plastic hurricane glass. The only thing missing is the umbrella. Chinese Mai Tais are more dangerous than the average... More »
2009 | Best Basement for Shows

Li Po is one of the few "anything goes" bars left in this NIMBY city. Want to end your Sundays swaying to rare soul with the Sweater Funk DJs? Craving fractured psych-pop one weekend and ear-bleeding noise the next? Scouting out tweaked techno, "Night Kitchen" style? It's all hiding in the Li Po dungeon. The dive bar's cachet comes with a couple of caveats, however. The only way to hear about these shows, which occur in a cramped, dank basement, is by word of mouth, Internet, or Twitter from... More »

Drink of the Week: Chinese Mai Tai at Li Po Lounge

By Lou Bustamante | Fri, May 11, 2012

"Feel pretty good. I'm not, uh, I'm not scared at all. I just feel kind of ... feel kind of invincible." -- Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China The infinite mulitverses concept was developed to... More »
Bouncer Has a Gross Encounter at Li Po Lounge

By Katy St. Clair | Wed, May 09, 2012

One must approach Chinatown with a certain cognitive dissonance. I realized this when I spent the night there recently. I left my friend's apartment to throw something out at 10 p.m. and noticed a strange movement out of the corner of my eye — an... More »
Li Po Lounge: Chinatown Poem

By Katy St. Clair | Wed, January 06, 2010

Though Las Vegas is not exactly my first choice in vacation spots (or even my 139th), I do love to read about the casinos that were planned but never executed. They are always fantastic ideas, way over the top in a city founded on "over the... More »