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557 Haight (at Steiner) San Francisco, CA 94117

415-861-5811 

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  • Wine Bar
  • Daily 5pm-2am
  • DJs
Description

Walking into this Lower Haight hideout might make you feel like you're at a peyote party with Beetlejuice: its Tim-Burton-on-a-mescaline-bender decor and singularly surreal, cave-like ambiance make Noc Noc wholly unlike any other bar in San Francisco (or anywhere else, for that matter). Trippy custom-built furniture, walls made of fake stone, ceilings wrapped in sheets of metal, alien lighting fixtures, and electronica bleeping overhead combine to create a mood-altering environment with numerous little niches in which to get lost. Noc Noc doesn't serve liquor - only beer, wine, and sake - but its fantastically demented interior design can give you that far-out feeling even when you're totally sober.







  • 2006 | Best Beer Bar

    When you first enter the scene at Noc Noc, it can be a little disorienting. The bar has the feel of a dingy subterranean cave; it's covered in Burning Man kitsch, filled with sculptures perhaps best categorized as "Inuit-industrial," and the ceiling is coated in a wild hodgepodge of grimy trinkets. Well-worn booths seat patrons close to the floor (if you can get a seat, that is), and an eclectic mix of Lower Haight residents haunt the dark corners. If the off-kilter charm scares away the... More »

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