This bar's storied history includes haggis, a cageless parrot and The Killers.
“I actually got stood up here one time,” I tell Tay Kim as I sip a drink at the long old bar inside Edinburgh Castle. Scottish flags dangle from the ceiling and year-round Christmas lights twinkle while Kim stands behind the bar and we trade stories about our decadeslong histories at this fabled Tenderloin dive bar.
Owner and bartender Tay Kim takes a moment from behind the bar for a portrait and some amazing stories from his classic San Francisco bar Edinburgh Castle.The Castle was opened on New Year’s in 1960 — in what was most likely an old auto garage — by a pair of Scotsmen named Douglas Kirk and Robert Johnson. The bar took its theme very seriously.
At age 24, Kim had just gotten back from traveling and needed a job, so his cousins hired him as a waiter. “When I first showed up, I thought, ‘Oh no, not this bar,’” he laughs, recounting the story of when he first saw the place at 10 years old. The thought that he’d now be working at the bar that gave him the willies all those years ago has a funny irony to it.
Patrons line up at Edinburgh Castle after a Taj Mahal concert at The Great American Music Hall. The bar is a destination after shows, often drawing a big music crowd.Marco Ibarra of San Francisco kicks back after work with a cold one and the Giants game at Edinburgh Castle, his favorite local spot to catch Bay Area sporting events, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.
It was a regular stop on pub crawls I used to host, because it was one of the few SF bars large enough to accommodate a school bus full of 40 weirdos. And the small front room with the piano was one of the first places someone recognized me for my writing and bought me a drink because of it, which was one of the coolest things that had happened to me at the time and is seared into my memory.
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