boring, overpriced and dull

   smateomark - 12/28/2006

The redroom in itself is a very nice space. The staff is well dressed and professional. If you dont have a reservation for a table...you pretty much dont exist. I went because a friend from out of town wanted to go to a place to be "seen". Im a local and wouldnt go back if the drinks were free. The drinks although generous are overpriced. I think the reason they are so generous is that there are so many wanna be crowdint the bar it takes way too long to get back to the bar to get a drink. The graphics are pretty unique but they should have used more attractive models.

RR in Inhospitable CliftHotel

   greenmancoon - 06/15/2006

The Redwood Room is fabulous, although I might have preferred it in its more contemplative Klimt incarnation...but then, I'm not among its younger patrons.
Some friends and I met there in August 2005 while visiting San Francisco, and found the ambience a bit noisy to converse there, so we asked if we could sit somewhere more quiet. Our fantastic waitress suggested the hotel's lobby. We had just sat down with our pricey wines when a couple of children (under 10) demanded to know why we were there. ( Well, we wanted to know what THEY were doing there after midnight! ) The kids slipped away to be replaced by a security heavy, who unceremoniously threw us out under threat of police arrest when I explained to him that we had been directed there by the waitress! $100 worth of drinks left on the table, we had to walk back to our hotel through the unsavory Tenderloin neighborhood. That was our first and guaranteed last experience with the Redwood Room...not the fault of the bar or its staff, but the staff of the hotel (was it the Clift?) was way out of line!
I'm spreading the word anywhere and everywhere I can. Redwood Room is great but noisy, I would have rated it higher if the hotel it's in wasn't the most inhospitable place I've ever experienced in my life.
The experience was so distasteful, it has altered any future plans we may have had to visit the City again...our friends will have to come and visit us here in friendly Mendocino instead, where hotel managers welcome our business, and it costs less.

   maryindiana9 - 06/08/2006

phreaky photos!

   laxcat1 - 06/20/2005

an excellent place for the younger crowd. great ambiance, drinks are fine. pictures on the wall provide for great ice breakers. pretty crowded on the weekends. good luck finding a place to sit down. better cozy up next to the cutie at the bar!

MED701's Review

   med701 - 05/18/2003

This is a great place to have a drink. The atmoshere is sophisticated and the service was great. The only problem is that it was crowded and the neighborhood is seedy. Located in the Tenderloin with tons of homeless begging for money. Watch yourself in this area!!!!