Bayside Sports Bar & Grill

Place had shit televisions, but always attracted a decent crowd for college football on Saturdays.
Does anyone know the story behind it closing down? Are they remodeling?

Could I be any more predictable than to be thumbing on my blackberry at bayside?
At least it wasn’t Matrix-​Fillmore, right?
Anyhow — I went on a Sunday to watch the Duke v Maryland basketball game and it was relatively tame (a plus).
They had plenty of televisions all around.
The food was another story. My friends said the calamari were pretty nasty and fried too much.
The fries were also too spicy for regular fries.
It’s a good spot to watch a game, but the food wasn’t so hot.
Apparently this is a great place to watch Cal, USC, Michigan, Raiders and 49ers football according to the jerseys on the wall.

Its a decent place to watch the game or whatever friggin thing you are into. They have more than enough tv’s and its very easy to get distracted. Go there as a Laker Fan and you will get heckled. I on the other hand don’t beause I lay down the law.
They gotta decent menu with good chicken. Definitely come here with a group and just get pitchers and fatty food. College football here is fun. Also UFC can be seen here.

A friend sent me a text last weekend and asked if I wanted to go somewhere and watch the Niners game. Given the choice between cowering in my bed and moaning away the previous night’s costume party and distracting myself with a game I could care less about, I chose football. I suggested Bayside as I figured I could at least entertain myself by watching the mating practices of the Apish Marina Male and Bayside has plenty of them.
Football holds no magic for me (unless I am at R Bar with the Browns fans). I have a mild interest in Hockey as it is fast and you never know when someone is going to get the shit kicked out of them (kinda like SF nightlife!). However, if your into it, the Bayside does have plenty of TVs to watch the Niners get served on.
This is the place to commiserate with your fellow polo shirt wearing fans and suck down a fancy pants beer at the same time. If you don’t want fancy pants, suck down a pitcher of Coors Light and eat fried stuff. They have almost as many fried items as they do polo shirts. They also have girls like me who have no interest in sports other than to watch men who watch sports. If there had been a guy doing free tribal tattoos in the corner, I would have given the place a higher rating.

I already hate the Marina, but I wound up here after Oktoberfest wasn’t possible because of the crowds and really wish I hadn’t…
Lots of TVs, but most are really small.
Seriously crowded and people were using more tables than neccesary for the size of their party.
Someone kept farting the whole time.
It was 400 degrees inside until about 2 hours later when someone FINALLY opened a window. This somehow managed to do nothing about the smell though.
No beer specials during the games.
Bar food was embarrassing. I have never seen smaller chicken tenders in my entire life and they only gave 4 to an order. I can get better ones at a fast food chain, I am sure.
Drunk guy next to me at the bar, who was still getting served, even though he kept nodding off to sleep.
Needless to say, I will not be returning.

On Friday night, this bar’s crowd included a man with downs syndrome and a nine-​year-​old child. That is all.

Perfect place to toss back a molotov cocktail.
Seriously, there are enough backwards baseball caps to look like a claw hammer window display… only louder and about as smart.

Is it football season yet? No? Oh…
Well, good thing it’s always sweet potato fry season!
(Do you see how I cleverly outlined the only 2 reasons I would ever come to Bayside with an internal dialogue?)

–1 star for trekking all the way to a bar & grill in the Marina without a single Zach Morris or AC Slater sighting.
Normally I would give a place like Bayside 2 – 3 stars. The barstools are comfy and the mediocre bar food is a godsent after a few daytime cocktails, but the TVs are mini, the ambiance must have been taken out with the trash, and the location is… well it’s on Union Street. If you want to know how I feel about Union Street see my review of the Union Street Fair. It’s really nice. You should read it.
Walking by the steps of Bayside, a lovely young man asks «Can I persuade you ladies to come inside? The first drinks on m…»
«SOLD!!!» we yelled as we pushed the lovely young man out of harms way and trampled up the steps like a herd of bovine at feed time. We mounted our bar stools and began shouting out orders for our FREE drinks.
A Stella for me, and an order of nachos sin beef chili and jalapeño cheddar tots to share with my stoolmate.
When I woke up in the morning, I showered, threw my hair in a disturbing hair clip, put on a pair of jeans and a hideous tshirt and headed out for a lube job. Yup, my widdle baby, the Suby, needed an oil change, and let me know ignoring its health for 2,000 miles was just unacceptable. While waiting for the Suby to be lubed, I received a call from my Unilocal bitch saying that our New York transplant buddy was in town so we were having a «Sunday Funday (her words… if you knew me, you’d know that uttering a sentence like this would make me throw up a little in my mouth).
So, still in my lube-​a-​licious outfit, I was beyond shocked when the lovely young man began pouring free shot after free shot for me. Maybe he liked my man clothes. OMG! Have I been unnecessarily spending all this time, money and energy trying to look like a girl? OMG! I could have shaved my head and thrown away my makeup years ago, and I could have still gotten free drinks and possibly laid? Wow, just wow.
Seriously, my five girlfriends and I were treated like The Lohan and crew at an LA hot spot, but without the obligatory crotch shots and overdoses. We didn’t pay for a single drink, yet left the place stumbling like a bunch of ruffied sorority chicks in Tijuana. The nachos were heaping and tasty and I couldn’t get enough of the jalapeño cheddar tots, because lets face it… fried potato anything when you’re three sheets to the wind is like a gift from the angels.

Wow, it’s like I’m back in college, complete with guys chicken hawking anything with a pair of boobs, sweet sweet bar food, and enough televisions to engage a fraternity gentleman with ADD. There is an occasional OG up in there just like, you got it, My Boy Blue!
I’ve always walked by this spot in the evening, it looks like the it’s the same as above multipled by deux. Or more.

NEVER SEEN SO MANY TV’S!!!
I watched Game 1 of the Warriors vs Mavs game here and it was spectacular. The place was pretty packed, not an empty seat in the whole joint. The atmosphere made it seem like we were actually at the game.
The crowd was real cool, real sports fans.
The food was good, especially those mini-​corndogs…
Only thing that sucks is the parking, there is none…
Great place, I will be back soon…

The bartenders are jerks.

Lots of TVs, and reasonablely cheap beer.
Lots of University of Michigan fans for football games.
Best thing is this place clearly labels all their TVs and which games are going to be on them. Plus they seem to show just about everything.
So if you want to be sure to have a good seat for your team, you can show up early, and know where to sit to have the right TV right in front of you.
Their food is ok and their beer selection could be better, but find for a sports bar.
It can get pretty crowded though, so get there early.

Preface this by saying it’s hard to fault a sportsbar for being crowded. People showing up 10 minutes before the start of their game and expecting to snag a prime seat should be met with a swift punch to the gonads and told to come earlier next time. That’s just the way sportsbars work.
This place is an absolute shitshow (in a good way) most weekends. Fans of rival teams getting along with some friendly heckling back and forth. Beer is beer, bar food is bar food so don’t expect some culinary adventure when you come here. Not that I’ve ever ordered anything besides chicken fingers and nachos so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Just get the sweet potato fries with anything and everything and you’ll be fine.
Fondest memory: Watching USC choke it’s chance at the title away in November 2006. Eat it.

Really crowded but they serve food which is nice. A little annoying in that they often show random games on the bigscreens to appease alumni groups. Once there was a Cal game, a Stanford game, and Giants-​Dodgers all going at once but they were showing a Michigan game on the big screen. Didn’t make any sense. No, I don’t want to watch the Cal game on a 17″ screen in the corner without sound, thank you.
The waitresses are pretty attentive, and they’re pretty cute too.

For a sports bar it’s pretty good. There are plenty of TV’s and you can get decent food (breakfast, burgers, wings). Get there early so you can sit up in the front and get some sun. The dungeon in the back blows.
It’s amusing to watch the Marina girls come in with their Seven’s jeans on and all dolled-​up on a Sunday morning, while the guys are hungover, wearing their favorite authentic NFL jersey, and sucking down beers. I’m not sure who the girls are looking to impress.
The Boston fans are quite annoying and always crying because their team lost.

Get there early. Seriously. Everybody watches games here, so if you are planning on catching a game, get there early to get a seat. Otherwise, it’s a miserable experience, and you’ll be standing in no man’s land. Great beer specials — they were running $ 1 Budweisers and Bud Lights last Saturday though they ran out relatively quickly. The bar food is pretty decent too.

Because of the numerous plaques on the wall for «Best Sports Bar» from Citysearch, I kind of expected more from the place. But after all, sports bars are mostly about watching the game with an enthusiastic crowd, which I think Bayside is a good place to do just that. There’s a million TV’s set up in every direction you could face in the bar. The staff is friendly. Drinks are reasonably priced. I didn’t try any of their food though.
Street or any other kind of parking is hard to come by in the Cow Hollow area… so be forewarned!

The sports bar of sports bars in San Francisco. A personal favorite for me as it is known as «The CU Bar.» Featuring a packed house during every University of Colorado Buffaloes football game every Fall.
F*** em up! F*** em up! GO CU!

GREAT place for college sports. This is the place for the 20 something post college graduate looking for some alma mater action on the weekends. Reasonable pricing on beer, average bar food, but great atmosphere in that youll always find a big group of people cheering for (and against) the school of your choice. LOTS of Colorado fans there which would be fun if i went to CU. Check out rivalry week there and come early! Sit anywhere, TVs are plentiful.
Theres one really nice waitress (tall, brown hair)…stay clear of the red headed one… she is not very nice.