Bar Bookstores Are a Hit Genre in the Bay Area
"In San Francisco, Golden Sardine is a bar with a Riesling-dominant wine list and strengths in orange and sparkling wines, paired with cheese and charcuterie plates and a tinned fish menu rich in sardines, trout, octopus, anchovies, and sprats (tiny anchovy-like fish, smoked with heather and chamomile) from Portugal, Denmark, and Spain’s Basque province. Fittingly, poetry books line shelves in the two-story bar, which opened in January in North Beach, once famed for Beat writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg." - Sharon McDonnell
