1015 Folsom — Restaurant in San Francisco

Don't go here no matter who is DJ-ing; the management sets itself up for failure by letting way too many in with no crowd control and employees will get physical with you and kick you out for staring at them wrong.

Been coming to 1015 Folsom and supporting it throughout the pandemic but after tonight, I will never go back. We were so excited to see Ekali return to the bay area after 5 years, but the workers here seriously have no respect for customers who actually care about making things right.

Blonde, white bottle service lady named "Mary Anne" of Eastern European descent had a horrible attitude and body slammed into our group on the dance floor near the VIP section around 12AM. This was after our group was slammed multiple times by drunk people trying to hop the boundary near the VIP section. This time, when she fell into us, so as we righted ourselves up, the person in our group who she slammed into glared at her. She then threatened him and said "Don't play with me" and quickly went to security who ten minutes later, pulled our group outside. Because we were not given wrist stamps, we were not allowed re-entry.

While outside, we were directed to the manager - Josh, a brunette curly haired 5'11 white male who had been working at 1015 Folsom for 7 years and said that he "never had a complaint from her." He told us that we had shoved her and when an employee complains about a guest, they have every right to refuse entry for any reason. Funny to say when while we were waiting to speak with him, we were shoved right in front of their faces by another unruly crowd, but of course while he was on his power trip, he ignored that.

We quietly waited our turn to speak with the bottle service lady who had reported us to security. When she showed up, she started her explanation with "if you were a woman and a guy glares at you the way your friend did, that would make you feel very uncomfortable." She also said our friend's "attitude made her feel uncomfortable." We reasoned with her that her fall on our friend actually took down 3 people total, and asked for her understanding that this kind of thing happens at a nightclub and we have every right to be annoyed and to right ourselves up and to glare at her. We also offered to apologize to her after trying to understand what we needed to apologize for but she changed her narrative mid explanation and said that we “did not touch her”, but glared at her in a way that made her uncomfortable.

We did not start a fight, did not strike her, and did not threaten her safety. She completely skipped the fact that her fall physically knocked us over while our friend's “attitude” left her unscathed. When we asked her what we should have done, she rolled her eyes at us before walking away. Of course, nothing happens when she is giving us a bad attitude under her managers watch.

Overall the club lets in way too many people than it can support, which is really the root cause of these issues. Drink lines have long wait times, and when you actually need security or help (there were a few individuals throwing up in plain sight in trash cans on the staircase) they are nowhere to be found. People are pushing, stumbling, slipping, and shoving their way through crowds, and a glare is actually a luxury to receive when you act like a human bowling pin and barrel through a crowd.

I hope karma really takes care of this place; looking through reviews, it's not the first story about how the security at 1015 Folsom has power tripping behavior. If you find yourself wanting to come here to see a really nice DJ, don't go. It's not worth supporting a business that actively supports its employees to treat their customers like trash, and it's just a matter of time before you...

On Friday 3/15/2019 I was assaulted and falsely imprisoned by the staff at 1015 Folsom for over two hours, handcuffed and dragged into a locked room. This is not a joke, and legal action is being taken as we speak.

At approximately 1:30am I approached the coat check area in the basement level of 1015 to retrieve my wife's jacket. Unfortunately, she had misplaced the coat check ticket, and they told us to get lost. I asked if I could speak to a manager about the process of retrieving a coat if a ticket had been misplaced. They instead got the club security who asked me to come outside with them. I stated that I would stay put until I had a chance to speak to the manager. (It's important to note that I was not intoxicated as I intentionally was not drinking to wake up early to go rock climbing).

At this time, the security grabbed me, forced me to the ground, and handcuffed me. All of their weight was placed on top of me, and I could hardly breathe. They then carried me out of the club and sat me down on the sidewalk curb where they insisted that they had contacted the police.

After 45+ minutes I was still handcuffed and began shouting "where are the police, please someone call the police." Once I started this call for help, they again tackled me to the ground and then dragged me into the VIP ticket entrance that was no longer in use. They carried me by my arms behind my back, which has resulted in a torn rotator cuff on my left shoulder.

They did this to hide their actions from the public. Once in the room, I was kneed in the chest, laughed at, and mocked. They had a body camera that was supposedly on the entire time. My lawyer will be working to retrieve this footage.

I sat in this room for another 1 hour plus before the police finally showed up. The cops immediately un-handcuffed me and collected the information on what had happened. By this time it was approx. 4am.

The staff at 1015 began to make up a story of me trying to break into the coat check (this did not happen and should be on camera). They then told the police that they would be willing to let me go and not press charges for "trespassing." I refused this offer as I fully intended their actions to be made public through a public court case where I knew they would end up in serious trouble for their actions. Even after stating I would instead prefer to have them charge me, they refused.

1015 refused to press charges to prevent a collection of evidence right then and there by the police as they knew what had been done was not only illegal but would risk the closure of their business.

I will be pursuing legal action against 1015 Folsom in order to get the footage that was taken this night of the assault, handcuffing and unlawful, false imprisonment out to the public.

Injuries documented: Split lip, two cut fingers, bruised wrists, bruised knees/legs, torn rotator cuff on left shoulder.

If you have information or additional footage from this night, please...

Went to see the Miss Bashful show on January 23, 2025. Mind you, I have been coming here with my wife since 2021, and I have never had ANY issues with security and the people at this club. But Unfortunately the other night was handled absolutely unprofessionally by the security staff. The security staff did nothing but flex their power at the club after they saw a woman assault me by slapping my face 5 times and pulling my hair to slap me. After being assaulted by some random club patron because I wanted to go back to my group that was close by the rails that are across from the bar on the main floor, security came and put theirs hands all over me.

There was an Asian Security guy, who talks and acts black for some reason, who wanted to not only put me in a full Nelson and assault me, but he got in my face multiple times and almost SWUNG on me. I had to blow my cigarette smoke in this security guards face so that he would back up from me, and my personal space. You shouldn’t be a security guard if you let the people you’re supposed to secure get to you like that. It’s weak minded behavior.

The security here are an absolute joke, DO NOT COME TO THIS CLUB, DO BOT GO TO CLUB 1015 if you and your party get into any situation; it doesn’t matter what, if it’s ANY situation where security gets involved, security will ABUSE YOU, and BEAT YOU. After they told me to leave I said I needed to get my jacket from coat check, and that is when all hell broke loose, they took their opportunity to flex their rent a cop muscles and I had 6-8 security people shoving me, pulling, kicking, and bruising me by grabbing me extremely tight. Here are my photos as well, and I’ll even add that my wife and I met Miss Bashful before the set started. I hope she finds out about this too.

I came back to Club 1015, and SF from out of state after MONTHS of planning with my wife and friends just to get kicked out because I told some club patrons to please move and didn’t tolerate getting my face SLAPPED and my hair PULLED then I get assaulted and beaten by the security. I used to live in the Bay, and I never knew how terrifying, and terrible this club turned out to be in 2025. Bad club, bad security that is egotistical and entitled and some pretty corny patrons who can’t let situations GO. Hope this place...