SF's Best Bars for Daytime Drinking

1569 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117 (map)

Dirt-cheap drinks at all times, a pool table, outside garden and a general anything-goes policy make this Haight Street dive an afternoon boozers' paradise, and the bartenders won't raise an eyebrow at you for drinking during the day--they're not hypocrites. Opens at noon daily.

Pier 30, San Francisco, CA 94105 (map)

This dilapidated shack on the Embarcadero near the ballpark is built, however shoddily, for day-drinking, with an all-day happy hour on the weekends, a back deck with bay views, tons of free parking and killer sourdough bread burgers cheap enough to buy with what's left of your beer money. Opens at 9am weekends.

3199 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94123 (map)

There's always someone off their head midday at this classic American joint in the Marina. There's no happy hour, but the people who come here don't need one--it must be fun getting loaded when you already are. Opens at 11:30am daily.

1237 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109 (map)

Not only does this Western saloon's seven-hour-long happy hour start at noon ($3 drafts and wells) but when you do finally stagger out into the sunlight, you won't horrify passersby--even 10 drinks deep at 2pm, you'll still be one of the more sober people on Polk Street. Opens at noon daily.

3248 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110 (map)

The itinerant writers and artists, neighborhood characters, and "glaucoma patients" freely enjoying their medication you'll find at this sunny Mission cafe might not be having morning beer, but leading such unorthodox lives makes them extremely non-judgmental of those who are. Open at 9am daily.

547 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117 (map)

With an all-day, everyday happy hour (almost all beers $2.50) on hundreds of connoisseur-grade microbrews and imported ales, bocks, stouts and other esoteric beers, this Lower Haight pub caters to the discerning alcoholic. Opens at 11:30am daily.