"Balboa Cafe is somewhere our drink order changes depending on where we sit. If we’re outside eating lunch on a warm Saturday, the only thing we want while we people watch and try to lure dogs to us is a Bloody Mary, but things change when we’re sitting inside. This is a martini room. It’s dark in here, the bartenders wear white coats, and it looks like a country club and a hotel bar had a child with its antique bar and green carpeting. You can linger over your drink because there’s no threat of it getting warm in the sun, and when you’re hungry, a martini is the best thing to pair with their burger served on a french roll, which you should definitely be ordering too." - will kamensky