Top of the Mark
You love views, you hoard keepsake trinkets, you pick out bouquets of roses (sans baby’s breath of course!) — in other words, you are an old-fashioned romantic, guilty as charged, and we think you’ll be swept off your feet at the iconic Top of the Mark. Perched on the 19th floor of the InterContinental, the sky lounge opens up to a 360-degree panorama of our fair city with views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands, and Alcatraz. A historical landmark, during World War II, servicemen would come to this bar and toast the Golden Gate Bridge, hoping it would grant them a safe passage home. Wives and sweethearts would gather in the northwest corner to watch their men leave for war, earning this famous spot the nickname “Weepers’ Corner.” It’s this mix of the grand and the poetic, and maybe the city’s best martinis, that will leave you in a swoon.
1 Nob Hill Place (at California and Mason streets); 415-616-6916.

Photographed by Anna-Alexia Basile