Alcohol-Free Date Ideas in San Francisco
Let’s go beyond, “Let’s grab drinks.” 🙌
4 min readOct 8, 2019
After our Rupa Health email on Why We Don’t Need to Drink Alcohol spread like wildfire, I got requests from tons of people on how to date sober in San Francisco. Here are my top ideas!
1. Places to Grab Tea.
- Samovar Tea in Yerba Buena Gardens: Open until 8PM or 9:30PM, depending on the day
- The Center: Open every day until 10PM
- David Rio Chai Bar: Open every day until 6:30PM
- Revolution Cafe: Open until Midnight on weekdays, 2AM on weekends. (tea & live jazz!)
- Kitava Kitchen: Open until 9PM (can get tea or bone broth!)
- Vital Tea Leaf : Open every day until 7PM (Free Tea Tastings in Chinatown)
2. Bar-like Places to Grab Non-Alcohol Drinks (where your date can grab a drink if he/she/they want!)
- Nopalito: cool modern ambiance, Mexican food
- The Interval at Fort Mason: lots of non alcoholic drinks
- Gracias Madre: Vegan Mexican & mocktails
- Rich Table: serves Seedlip non-alcohol drinks
- Devil’s Acre: they have non-alcohol selections!
2. Hippie-esque Places to Grab Non-Alcohol Drinks
- Beloved Cafe: Lots of teas, elixers, juices, and smoothies
- Kava Lounge: Kava, Kratom drinks, Cacao and more
- The Center: Tea lounge, floor seating
- Wu-Wei Tea Temple: Across the Golden Gate in Fairfax, has all kinds of elixers!
3. Casual Evening Bites
- The Mill: PIZZA! by the slice.
- Arizmendi: Pizza! by the slice.
4. Free Activities
- Ferry Building farmers market on Saturdays
- Walk on Ocean Beach. Or bike through Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach
- Ferry Building Farmer’s Market on Saturday Morning / Afternoon
- Check out the Wave Organ
- Walk to Lands End
- Watch sunset from Hawk Hill / Point Bonita Lighthouse
- Vital Tea Leaf (Free Tea Tastings in Chinatown)
5. Exercise
- Bike Golden Gate Bridge. Grab bikes from near Fisherman’s Wharf area. They also come with a 40% off Sports Basement coupon so you can go explore after!
- Bike to Hawk Hill
- Evening yoga class
- Lululemon Run Club- The route varies but they leave Thursday mornings at 6:15am frmo. the Grant Avenue Store.
6. Experiences & Places
- Off The Grid Presidio Picnic on Sundays
- Giants Game
- Alcatraz night tour (Note: this books out weeks in advance)
- Improv show: BATS
- Cobbs Comedy Club
- Church of 8 wheels- rollerblading!
- Off the Grid in the Fort Mason (Friday 5–10pm) — food trucks
- Presidio Picnic — also Off The Grid food trucks (Sunday 11am-4pm)
- Explore the Apothecary — twisted thistle & scarlet sage are open until 7PM
- Walk up to Coit Tower in North Beach
- View from Hawk Hill
- Take a meditation or breathwork class
- Make something at Woodshop
- Bread making class at Tartine Manufactory or The Mill
7. Fun Museums/Galleries
- Exploratorium After Dark (Thursday nights)
- MoMa has extended hours on Thursdays and Saturdays in the summer
- Cal Academy of Sciences — in golden gate park
- De Young Museum — in golden gate park
8. Other Favorites
- Ride a little yellow GoCar
- Do a Big Bus tour (I get made fun of for this so much, but honestly SO FUN!)
- Cook at home :)
What do you think? Any other ideas? I’d love to hear them!
Love, Tara
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