All Visitor Reviews for The Cinch (7 reviews)

This is a great spot with a friendly bar staff and a party like crowd. This is the kindda place where you can go alone or with a group of friends. I like the dance music on Fridays with a very old fashion drag show. I would say Fridays is the most party night with Saturday very laid back pool shooting crowd. So if you're an old drag queen like me or new meat on the block this is where your Polk st. night should start and your Fridays should be spent.

The Cinch on Friday nights delivers performances way more risque and bizarre than Trannyshack. This really fun weekly party cisalled Charlie Horse at Cinch on Polk St. Crowd ranges from young indie SOMA hipsters, preppy Marina professionals, drag queens, and everyone in between. Gets good around 11pm.

Since moving here we have enjoyed going to the Cinch, esp. on Sundays. Friday and Saturdays are packed with an array of gays, lesbians, drag queens, and gay friendly straights. The staff is friendly. Jim, Ed, Mikey are great. There are always fund raisers, contests and food. The back patio is a great feature. I would definitely recommend this joint.

the most diverse bar in the city! ryan and david rule the patio!!

No longer the the laid-back, comfortable & friendly atmosphere. A once truely neighborhood bar, is now another Castro satellite bar--on weekends especially, with all the attitude, too many "fabulous" patrons who have an apparent "in" with the new management. Saturday night's "Spunk" features performers performing for each other, primarily. Kind of pathetic. Bring back the pool tables, dump the house music, and bring in management who can treat all patrons with equal respect and welcome the diversity that had always made this place unique.

don't let them fool you with the other review. this bar is not really open-minded. look like mostly straight than few gays. i'd rather go to castro. if you're asian, don't go this one. some of them are not comfortable with asians and they don't look happy or even not friendly when asians comes in. find another one or at 8 club or Ntouch.

The Cinch is a local bar where most of its guest are regulars however it's "anyone is welcome" attitude makes for a great place to meet new and less than ordinary people, you can also just sit back and do some people watching (there is alway plenty to see), play some pool or pinball, or just get drunk and catch a taxi home!