Rickhouse

Four friends and I came here for the punch bowls, which are only served upstairs. It was really cramped up there and hard to find a table seeing as how there were only 4 tables and all taken by large parties probably staying the night. We finally squeezed our way around a coffee table. We ordered a punch bowl that didn't sound as sweet as the other ones. When we finally got the bowl after 30 minutes and took a couple sips, we all thought the server gave us the wrong one! It didn't taste like the way it was described on the menu, but it turns out it was the one we ordered.

My friend, who was taking us around, said that they change the punch bowls every once in a while. The ones he had a couple months ago were no longer on the menu.

5 stars for the environment and how they offer unique cocktails, minus 1 for the overly sweetened punch bowl and disappearing server.

Louie makes the BEST drink in San Francisco, yes I will have another "Pleasant Evening".  Love the live music, great spot!

I don't always write reviews but when I do they're not very positive.

I try to use Yelp as a platform to inform intelligent consumers not about places doing things they SHOULD be doing right but about things they are doing absolutely WRONG!

Take this gimmicky bar in FiDi named Rickhouse.

Expectations:
-Entertaining friends in a not-so-unique speakeasy setting with generally palatable libations

Actual Results:
-Pompous prick of a bartender with an overgrown beard running the bar like a dic(k)tator of a 3rd world country
-Sheer racism

Story:
My friends were in town for a wedding and I wanted to take them to a few spots for drinks.
We made a stop at Rickhouse and was absolutely ignored by this particular bearded, bald headed bartender. He probably has racially insensitive tattoos beneath his Nazi-tan colored attire (sans the swastikas)
We approached the bar together hoping to get a few orders when this couple sat down to the right of us and were immediately tended to.  
"Sure. Okay it's just two of them." we thought. Then a group of gentlemen already enjoying their libations to our left were tended to again! Then back to the couple. Then once more to the gentlemen.

At this point we sensed some negative attitude from this jerk but once i said "hey yo!" to try and get the bartender's attention, THAT is when sh1t hit the fan.
This knuckle dragging, moronic bartender, who mind you pulled off perhaps the greatest impression of Edward Norton...IN AMERICAN HISTORY X, had the audacity to try and scold ME on how I shouldn't say "hey yo!" to try and get a bartender's attention. WELL, A$$ SAUCE. KINDLY TELL ME HOW ELSE AM I GOING TO GET IT WHEN YOU PASS OVER A GROUP OF US MULTIPLE TIMES? Get your head out of your a$$, bro. You're JUST a bartender.

I was so upset that I boycotted the place and did not stay there for long enough to get a drink.

We actually went to a way better bar down the street called Local Edition.

If you want to try (it's not supposed to be a god damned game!) and get a drink from a chubbier Edward Norton look-alike, oh please do come here!  But be aware that you may not even get one and end up being removed from the bar for saying "HELLO I WOULD LIKE A DRINK PLEASE!".  

Do yourself a huge favor and go to this list of WAY BETTER ALTERNATIVES:
LOCAL EDITION
83 PROOF
RYE
WHISKEY THIEVES
CHAMBERS EAT + DRINK
BOURBON & BRANCH
WILSON & WILSON
BLOODHOUND
NOVELA
BURRITT ROOM
TRADITION