Raven Bar — Restaurant in San Francisco

This club was okay EXCEPT for the terrible experience we had with one of the security guards at the entrance. He was this short Hispanic looking guy with a beanie. I don’t remember his name so that’s why I gave a description. Anyway, this guy had apparently never seen an ID from Kentucky before so he immediately thought my friend’s ID was a fake. The picture was a little faded because the ID is old but you can still clearly see it is her. The worst part about the whole experience was the unnecessary rude comments he made to her and he escalated the situation so quickly. She was calm and nice the entire time but this guy immediately gave her attitude and was rude to all three of us as we tried to explain to him that her ID is valid. Instead of asking us for any other form of identification and explaining to us why he could not accept her current ID, he went on to say he was going to confiscate her ID and then he made a snide judgement towards her for not have a passport. He said, “ how do you not have a passport! Everyone has a passport”. This is when I interjected and told him that NOT everyone has a passport because to be able to travel is a luxury and why would someone have a passport if they can’t travel. This comment infuriated me because my friend has been living in poverty for years so she never dreamed of being able to go out of the country which is why she never got a passport, so on top of him making her feel bad for that he also continued to be rude and make unnecessary comments like these. Another security guard finally took over and we had to show them a birth certificate scan just so they would let her in and even after all of that they didn’t apologize for their rude behavior AND as we were finally going inside the short security guard made another comment saying we didn’t need a stamp to enter because they “wouldn’t forget us”, as if we were the problem. Honestly, we were about to leave to another club altogether because of this childish unprofessional AHOLE. I really hope they fire him because his treatment towards us was way off and completely unnecessary. Just to avoid this guy, we are never going back to this place. There are plenty of other clubs in SF, so pls avoid this place if you want to avoid an unpleasant experience like this one and potentially having your ID confiscated...

I have mixed feelings about this place. Any place that plays 90s/hiphop/r&b and its music videos(!!) warrants an automatic approval from me. That coupled that with a relaxed dress code and a dance floor definitely make this my kind of place. BUT as always, there are downsides. Drinks are expensive (what's new?), $10 cover after a certain time, there's only two single stall bathrooms for women in this ENTIRE PLACE, and the top floor is typically jam packed, making it hard to dance. These downsides are fairly common across the board for all bars/clubs so I guess these could be overlooked if I'm a) drunk or b) having a really good time.

However, bottle service is a different story. I came here recently to celebrate a friend's birthday and we ordered bottle service. What I liked was that we could specify our group size beforehand and have them all added to the guest list. Not sure if we could add more, but we were able to add 20 people to our guest list. Mind you, that's 20 people who could come and skip paying cover. Thought it was nice that they set up birthday signs around our table, gave the birthday girl a little birthday tiara and both birthday celebrants a couple vouchers for no cover. Those were pretty much the only things I 'liked' about bottle service.

The bottle service itself was pretty mediocre, and that's me being polite. Our juice and soda carafes were empty fairly quick and were probably only refilled maybe twice the entire time we were there. It took forever to flag down someone to refill our drinks and even longer for them to come back with it. We killed our 2 bottles very early on in the night and decided to bite the bullet and purchase a 3rd, but even that took a long time also. At one point, I even forked over $3 at the bar to buy soda because our runner was taking too long. Having 20+ people standing around waiting for the bottle, cups and juice/soda is just unacceptable, especially when you're paying money for it. The redeeming factor in all this though, is that these issues were brought up to management by the birthday celebrants and they were able to come up with a compromise.

Overall, just the music alone makes this a pretty good place. Just skip the bottle service unless you wanna spend your entire...

Man I don’t know what people do but people only leave reviews when they for some reason have a negative experience, so I’m gonna leave a club review for once to say I had a damn great time, and I’m posting a video to prove it.

This was a great bar, pricey drinks I guess, but super fair to pay a little extra at a place so lit; Instead of some boring sit down place. Cover was $15, but coat check was free so worth it.

Came here with my girlfriend, we had a great time. Super short line, got in quick. Bouncers were not aggressive, staff was not aggressive, people were not aggressive. The dance floor was a little cramped, but nothing uncomfortable there’s space to find, and space outside of it if dance floors are not for you. Music was phenomenal, fun listening to pop big hit throwbacks; nostalgia dopamine. With large screen playing the music video which is super cool. We made new friends. Felt really safe and friendly. Reasonable wait to use the bathrooms, and the bathrooms WERE CLEAN. Can you believe that? Super rare at a club. Also fairly closeby to Mission St for the after party snack burrito!

10/10 and coming again. Will be here this Friday and maybe Saturday too. Me and my girlfriend are new to San Francisco and this help us have a great first impression. Were very experienced with clubs & bars, and this is definitely in the top 5. San fran pleasantly surprised us. Great...