Best Bars And Lounges in Financial District / Embarcadero

My team and I love Scoma's and we try to come every time I'm in SFO to visit with the team. Excellent food, great service and lively atmosphere. Highly recommend.

Energetic vibes. Can get cold but the patio has heaters and blankets are available. Staff are friendly and professional. Drinks are SF pricing, strong and tasty.

We loved this place ♥️ it’s a total vibe. The bartender was amazing 🤩he takes great care of you and makes you feel comfortable. The food and drinks were amazing! We are definitely going back!

Good place, a little noisy. Great service high prices.

There’s a kind of stubborn beauty to Tosca. The kind of place that clings to its soul through decades of reinvention, weathered by time and cigarette smoke, soaked in Sinatra and amaro. You walk in and it doesn’t ask you to like it—it dares you not to. Start with the burrata. Creamy, delicate, spread like contraband over a hunk of toast slicked with pesto. It’s not trying to change your life. It’s trying to remind you that simple things, when done right, can still matter. The meatballs? Jesus. If there’s a God, He’s Italian and these are proof. Rich, tender, full of that Sunday-gravy depth that makes you question why you ever settled for less. They arrive like an old friend who never forgot how to show up when it counts. Then there were the potatoes. Dressed up in a tuxedo of crème fraîche and caviar, like a guy trying too hard at a dive bar. Pretty, yes. But no soul. No grit. Just surface-level charm without the flavor to back it up. Still, Tosca doesn’t need to hit every note to be unforgettable. It’s not about perfection. It’s about presence. It’s about sitting in a red leather booth, listening to opera echo off the walls, and remembering that restaurants like this are rare. Sanctuaries for the broken, the romantic, and the hungry. And I’ll keep coming back—for the meatballs, for the burrata, and for the reminder that places with character still exist.