Press
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Bay Guardian Best Of
“Best Place to pretend you’re in a Fellini Movie- El Rio on a Sunday Afternoon”
1995 “Best Dive Bar”
1998 “Best of the Bay”
1999 “Best Salsa Club”
2000 “Best Place to meet Women, Mango on Saturday”
2001 “Best Salsa Club”
2002 “Best Bar To Play Pool In”
2002 “Best Salsa Club”
2004 “Best Queer Revolutionary Headquarters”
2008 “Best Happy Hour”
2008 “Small Business Award: Community Service”
2009 “Best Happy Hour” and Swing Goth
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=6290
Bar Stool Charity 08
http://www.sfbg.com/40/11/bc-benefits.html
City Search
2006 “Best OutDoor Bar” Audience Winner
2008 “Best Happy Hours”
AOL City Guide
“Best Gay Bar”
Examiner & The Independant
“Peninsulas Best Latin Music Club”
Bay Guardian Scene Spring 2007
“Party spaces that give a damn: Billing itself as ‘your dive’, El Rio defines ‘you’ as a crowd of anarchists, trannies, feminists, retro cool kids, and heat-seaking salseros as diverse as you’re likely to find congregating around one shuffle board table. Whether featuring a rawkin Gender Pirates benefit show or a rare screening of ‘The Fall of the I-Hotel as part of a radical film series Televising The Revolution, El Rio encourages and intimacy and camaraderie among it’s dance floor-loving patons less frequently found these days in an increasingly class divided Mission.”
SF Chronicle/BayList Winner 09 Voted Best Neighborhood Bar
Sf Chronicle/SF Gate 09 Best Nightlife/Neighborhood Bar
Dick Cheney On El Rio
“This is a very scary place. I highly recommend against it. Do not let your children, your inlaws and particularly not your wife go there. They will never be the same.”
Somebody from the World Bank on El Rio
“We love El Rio. If only more for profits acted like non profits, the world would be such a pretty place. We are seriously considering their business model.”
It’s a mutual appreciation party (Andy and Vetiver)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6RfHE3jeI
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3376949702_ea5f4e4676_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redhotdottie/sets/72157604035538444/
El Rio on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=el+rio+sf&search_type=
El Rio on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=el+rio+sf>
Gay Cities
http://sanfrancisco.gaycities.com/bardetail/24/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/26/NS7J1AMM50.DTL
Thanks Burrito Justice for some history on our location
