This Lower Haight classic has stood the test of time because it has refused to change.
Molotov's stands on the north side of Haight Street between Steiner and Fillmore in the Lower Haight of San Francisco, pictured May 11, 2022.There’s a photo in a shoebox somewhere of myself and Tia, my girlfriend from my early 20s, hanging out at Molotov’s. We looked impossibly young — Tia had a fake ID — but our age was also given away by the fact that we’re drinking bright green cocktails in pint glasses, which must be Tokyo iced teas, something only people in their 20s can stomach.
Maybe Molotov’s just feels like the pre-digital age to me because it’s exactly how all the bars I hung out at were back then; full of dogs and punks and metalheads. Teeming with stickers on most of the surfaces and people talking s—t while they play pinball or pool and revel in the little victories of the day.Either way, it’s absolutely perfect.
“We've been able to keep it the way it is because of the neighborhood,” Laura Callahan tells me as we have a drink in Molotov’s parklet. Callahan and her business partner Martin Kraenkel celebrated the 12-year anniversary of buying the bar on April 9, but they changed so little about Molotov’s when they bought it in 2010 that I didn’t even know they weren’t the original owners. And the reason they bought it was because it was already ideal just as it was.
Which is exactly what Callahan means when she says that Molotov’s continued existence and success is because of the neighborhood. Talking about the clientele she says, “It's really mostly neighborhood folks, like people who've lived here for a very long time to people who have moved here in the last six months.” Thinking about it a couple moments more, she follows up saying, “This neighborhood is really, really sweet.
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