Virgin Hotels SF Opens Rooftop Bar Everdene for Views and Cocktails

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Rooftop bar Everdene opens today, topping off an ambitious new hotel from the Virgin mega corporation and offering a fresh perspective on the San Francisco skyline. Even at a relatively modest 12 stories, the 4,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor bar is breathing rare air: It’s one of just a handful of rooftop bars in San Francisco, joining peers like Charmaine’s and El Techo. Beyond sweeping views from Twin Peaks to downtown, the new bar offers cocktails from Tommy Quimby (Trick Dog, Rich Table), bar bites from Adrian Garcia (chef at the new downstairs Commons Club restaurant), and DJs to provide the soundtrack.

Virgin Hotels SF, a branch of the company known for its airline and record businesses, opened its 200-room San Francisco location at 250 Fourth Street this spring. It’s the second link in a coming chain that started with a Chicago location. In SF, the Commons Club restaurant quickly followed the hotel, with chef Garcia behind an all-day menu in the decadent downstairs space and Quimby providing the drinks at the lobby bar.

While Commons Club is a looker, eyes are likely to gravitate upward to the Gensler-designed Everdene. The roof is accessible through a marble foyer, which opens onto an indoor bar area described as the salon. That’s where Quimby’s team will fix cocktails at a 25-foot wraparound bar. The salon area can be opened completely or closed off from the elements. And outside, there’s seating for the public, plus two areas billed as lounges for private functions.

If Everdene’s name strikes drinkers as literary, they’re right, but not because it sounds like a hero from The Hunger Games. Instead, it’s an allusion to a character from Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. To further transport bargoers away from the busy streets below, see Quimby’s menu of cocktails: Those include a Maiden’s Blush (Bacardi 8-year rum, lemon juice, ginger, beet, pineapple) and shared, large-format drinks like a Midsummer Revelry (Macchu Pisco, Tempus Fugit Creme De Noyaux, Ballard Lane Pinot Noir). Garcia’s food menu of items like frito misto and tuna tostadas is below in full, too.

Everdene is open now from Tuesday through Saturday, 5:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.