California / San Francisco
Comstock Saloon
A restored barbary-coast saloon with a ragtime piano some nights and a Pisco Punch recipe rebuilt from a 19th-century ledger.
Getting in
Front door, swinging saloon doors.
Order this
Pisco Punch
Your passport
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