Amador Club — Restaurant in San Francisco

Firstly, I'm just reviewing their storefront as this Yelp listing is for a 'Department Store', not a club or restaurant. The location of the store is beautiful. The old bank, the barber in the vault - it's all lovely and definitely worth peeking inside. The products are interesting and there's quite a variety (fishing gear to whiskey to clothing to shaving supplies to cigars).

All that being said, the place is a slight disaster - all the products are strewn about the otherwise beautiful space, with seemingly little attempt at organization. The absolute worst part about it all is their customer service. I have walked into the space several times, staring blankly at their doorman? cashiers? and they would NOT EVEN MAKE EYE CONTACT with me. I literally stood there for several minutes waiting for someone to acknowledge my presence. I'd considered getting some whiskey for myself (yes, I'm a woman, but I don't have everything), or some fishing gear or a wallet for my male relatives/friends.

Alas, now that I know they don't want my business, I won't be going back except to check out the pretty, pretty space.

"For the man who has everything..." except common courtesy. "Solutions for the modern..." a-hole. "We welcome the 1, 30X, 41..." to be ignored when...

Sexy, swanky and sophisticated ...this is private upscale man cave! Adorned with smoking jackets and neck ties.

As soon as I got off the elevator I was greeted by a gentlemen that checked me in. You have to be invited by a member to enter.

There's a main bar surrounded by cozy couches in an intimate setting. I immediately had my favorite glass of Pinot and billionaire bacon. Thick chunks of bacon cooked to perfection. To die for! I followed up with the cheese connoisseur for a lovely plate of figs, salami and assorted cheeses. They also serve dinner after 6pm.

I took a quick tour of the designer rooms they had for parties or meetings. Each one had a different theme. My two favorite, the velvet room and the wine cellar. Both excellent for a celebration!

I didn't feel a creepy or pretentious vibe once so ever. Everyone was down to earth and friendly. There seemed to be quite of few business meetings happening.

Their memberships are reasonable and for people out of the area that visit on occasion it's even better.

I left saying, "why don't we have this for women!"...

For male sartorialists traditionally inclined (AKA West Coast Preppy) entering this store is like going to Paradise, at least since the closure of the late Bullock and Jones (now the Union Square Williams Sonoma) and the decamping of Cable Car Clothiers from the old bank building in Palladian style at the corner of Grant and O'Farrell, now sadly an Emporio Armani. In other words, impeccable clothing, impeccably presented, nice sales guys, turns out not to be too expensive considering the quality. Very nice tailoring in very fine fabrics downstairs in the old vault, nicely selected cuff links, ties, etc. (It's in the restored Bank of Italy (later BofA) building.) Nice touches like fabric tote bags, so you don't have to pay for paper bags, and ten percent back to you via e-mailed receipt kept in their data base to spend later. Full barber shop and shoeshine on premises. Free shoe trees with shoes. And up at the top of the building they have a very posh members club. Brought to you by the folks from Stanford (On the Fly predecessor, and other similar initiatives...