Lone Star Saloon

lots of country boys here a fan of the place leather bar too

Awesome space, love the outdoor area in the back! Well priced drinks and a great DJ on Saturday nights once a month for the ladies! Two thumbs up! :)

Best gay bar in town! JJ and gang to a great job. Good happy hour and friendly people. Not the gay twink crowd. Perfect for Folsom and Dore alley fairs.

Sweet bear bar in SOMA. THE bear bar that started it all
Friendly bartenders, overprices drinks.
Great popcorn, and a neat place for conversation. This place is down the street from my fella’s work, so we are usually popping in right after work for a drink or two.
See you soon!

My GF and I love going to Gay Bars for Happy Hour, we always seem to have a blast. This bar is by my work and we love to grab a drink there in the early evening. Great bar popcorn and pool make this a fun place to kill an hour! Really nice wooden bar compliments the layout. Bathrooms are clean and the back patio is large and fun on a sunny summer afternoon! Just a fun… come as you are kinda place!
We’ll be back!

Great gay dive bar in Folsom! Went here a little over a week ago when I was visiting with a friend and we had a great time! Not really the place if you wanna dance or looking for the circuit scene but a great place for cheap drinks, cool social people, nice bartenders and laid back environment. Place got filled with a mix of younger scenesters and a more mature gay male crowd which made for an interesting environment. Drinks were yummy and potent and free popcorn doesn’t hurt either. Spent most of my time in the outdoor smoking area since I am a smoker and met a few pretty cool people who were kind enough to give me suggestions on where to go next according to what I was looking for. One of the bartenders ended up giving me all the information I would need for the rest of the weekend! Will definitely visit again when I’m back up north for cheap drinks before heading out to clubs/​bars in Folsom.

This place is a hidden gem! Came here on a Sunday to hear some live music and discovered amazing Sunday fun day specials! $ 1 rolling rock, $ 2 mimosas, $ 3 any draft beer. The beer garden in the back is great too! Definitely recommend.

This is the best bar in San Francisco.

Sad to say… but this bar will go the way of the Kok bar. The bartenders are very nice… but there is absolutely no good vibe here and the music is horrible most of the time. The only times that this bar has any kind of crowd is during Cub Cake or sometimes during the beer busts on Sunday… otherwise it’s a ghost town.
A word of advice would be to get rid of the silly nights like Leader of the Pack and Soma Thirstdays or at least play better music. I couldn’t believe that they are having Leader of the pack on Friday… which is during Dore Alley weekend. Are you trying to kill off the bar?
Usually I can only last a beer or two here and then I have to leave cause it’s so sad. The bartenders must be pissed too cause you know they aren’t making any money.

Went during the day on a random sf trip, great drinks, good price, gay bar, clean. Bradley the bartender was awesome. He was talking about some of the events they have and I would definitely go back next time in the city.

This might just be the most unfriendly bar that I have EVER been in. Such a disappointment. The bartenders were ok but the clientele… unfriendly. Came in for my first time by myself… tried to make conversation and you would have thought i kicked someones dog! Apparently new people are not welcome here. Won’t be back.

Definitely my favorite bar in SoMa.
Bartenders are always friendly and professional. The DJ’s are great too. I always hear songs that are deep cuts from favorite albums of mine, not just the typical club/​house music played at gay bars.
The crowd is very laid back and it’s a place you can chill out with a few beers or take it up a notch if you’re in that kind of mood.

Not my favorite place. The patio is too small, especially when people are smoking on it. The staff is friendly and there are usually good drink specials, but I just think why have a patio at all unless it is going to be a good one.

The Lonestar has a nice layout, and the back patio a good place to hang out with friends in the late afternoon or at night.
But, wow, the beer selection is terrible. I understand you need some cheap beer because some people only care about getting drunk. But you’d think at least some bears would have better taste than that.

I don’t know what it is about me, but I seem to have the worst luck with gay bars in SOMA.
Came here after the Super Bowl, because that game would make any San Francisco Bay Area local thirsty, right? The bar wasn’t crowded at all, so I walked up to the bar to wait. As I waited at the bar the infamous bartender with dreadlocks spent most of his time socializing with a group at the end of the bar. After about five minutes of waiting in a DEAD bar, I started to get a little upset. A group of men walked up to the bar on my right and soon after, the bartender PASSED ME UP to go to the new group.
He also got my drink order and literally rolled my eyes when I asked him to correct it.
Whatever. I don’t HAVE to come here.

I paid 4.50 for a drink and then came back after the first drink and the «other» bartender with dread locks tried to charge me 9.00 dollars for the same drink! Really double! When I told him I just got the same Drink for 4.50 and got an attitude and took the drink from me! Normally this place is ok, but I don’t think ill be back! I left went down the street and got the same drink for 4.25!

[UPDATE] The new penny floor is amazing! Enough reason to swing by this place and check it out. Very original!
This is the perfect place to chill out and have a few beers around friendly people.
I’ve been going to the LS for years and I really like what the new ownership of the bar is doing with the place. The crowd is now more varied, from the young to the mature, so it will be more likely to find guys you fancy. The beer busts are still a lot of fun, and ‘cubcake’ on some Friday’s are a blast.
If you need to decompress and let go there is no better place in SOMA than the Lone Star Saloon.

This place looks FUN! I haven’t really had the chance to scope out the SOMA being an EB resident. With public transpo being a bit obnoxious going in this direction, I just haven’t had the opportunity to get a feel for this area. I came in here the other evening with an old teacher of mine from Seattle who was staying a few blocks away. I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in two years so this was a major catch up day for us.
We both dropped in by chance, early, around 7 or so on Thursday. It was relatively cleared out which was fine. Again, we just wanted to catch up. Not looking for crazyness. I guess this is the «Bear bar» as I soon learned from the scruffy hulks meandering about, not to mention the brown bear board outside. Hot! The inside is divey and a bit cramped (can’t imagine a weekend night) with a pool table adjacent to the bar. They play movies on a TV and a drop down screen also.
The bartender (going off the staff tab on the website, I think his name was JJ) was slick; flattering me by calling my ID picture «cute», making physical contact when I asked about accepting cards and later offering us popcorn for which they have a machine. My teacher gives me his usual, sarcastic «Mmhmm», pursed lip look, making me giggle. Me being a 5’8 ginger twink, it takes far more than that to make me swoon but these guys are definitely «up my alley». Hahaha.
We hung out on the back patio where we were able to catch up without getting hit on too heavily. I actually really like gay bars that allow for a friendly vibe rather than smother you with a «hey, friendly now but lets fu#k later» feel, though we definitely got some LONG stares. Especially my friend. There was a nice mix of gentlemen though. Older and younger. The high-​rise benches are nice and kept relatively clean but the table is a stretch to put drinks down on which is frustrating if you have a boney ass and have to lean back and forth a lot.
The sun began to set and more guys were showing up. Seemed like they were gearing up for a busy Thursday. Like any shmancy gay bar, they had all kinds of events lined up which looked fun but I could only imagine. Cubcake? Haha.
I would LOVE to go back but I wouldn’t really know who to take. Judging from other reviews, the bears are cautious towards women but most of my friends are ladies and I definitely need a sidekick in a place like this. Gotta love those rugged grizzly bears though!

No longer a bear bar. They cancelled the Bears of San Francisco Sunday beer bust and replaced it with females. Yes you heard a popular world know bear mans bar turned twink and females.
Sorry but rather go elsewhere.

lone star, lone star, lone star.
I really like what they have done with the all place. They are really improving so much for the past year. give it a chance and you’ll see the place looks better then before. it’s clean, they have a great DJ’s both now, windows, great posters, great costumer service… and cheap drinks too…