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Vesuvio Cafe Review

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Vesuvio Café

  • Address: 255 Columbus Ave., at Broadway, North Beach, San Francisco, CA | Map It
  • Phone: 415/362-3370
  • www.vesuvio.com

Fodor's Review:

If you're only hitting one bar in North Beach, it should be this one. The low-ceiling second floor of this boho hangout, little altered since its 1960s heyday (when Jack Kerouac frequented the place), is a fine vantage point for watching the colorful Broadway-Columbus intersection. Another part of Vesuvio's appeal is its always-mixed clientele (twenties to sixties), from neighborhood regulars to young couples and Bacchanalian posses of friends.

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