These 140 activities are worth leaving the house for.
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Alameda • $
The Boathouse is the dive bar you want to love: a maritime-themed local hangout where sailors, dockworkers, and neighbors gather for cold beer, surprisingly good bar food, and a game of pool. Grab a seat outside or belly up to the bar and settle in.
El Sobrante • $
A no-frills neighborhood dive where generous pours, pool tables, and a jukebox meet genuinely friendly bartenders. The kind of place where everyone's welcome and nobody's judging.
Alameda • $23.18
Step inside a 30,000-square-foot airplane hangar turned beer paradise, where farm-driven sours and barrel-aged stouts flow beside pinball machines, arcade cabinets, and a sprawling beer garden overlooking the bay. Food trucks rotate daily, kids flock to the sandbox and ball pit, and the redwood bar pours 30 taps of California-crafted brews flavored with fresh pluots, strawberries, and lemongrass from regional farms.
Rockridge • $
This neighborhood bar is part arcade, part community hub, with Skee-Ball, Big Buck Hunter, and a rotating lineup of drag shows, karaoke, trivia nights, and movie screenings.
El Sobrante • $
A spacious dive bar where regulars welcome newcomers like old friends. Expect strong pours, pool tables, darts, and a ceiling plastered with dollar bills.
Livermore
Down a gravel road in an industrial park sits Livermore's friendliest little brewery. Headyworks pours standout hazies and sours, with a huge patio built for games, kids, and lazy afternoons.
Browse the East Bay neighborhood by neighborhood, get ideas just for you, or ask me anything.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 6:00 PM
Clayton Club Saloon · Clayton
$
Thu, Oct 15 · 9:00 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Shafter
Free
Thu, Oct 15 · 6:00 PM
Armistice Brewing Company · Richmond
Fri, Oct 16 · 4:00 PM
The BreakRoom · Downtown Berkeley
Free
Fri, Oct 16 · 9:00 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Shafter
$
Fri, Oct 16 · 4:00 PM
The BreakRoom · Downtown Berkeley
$$
Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 PM
Jack London Square · Jack London Square
Fri, Oct 16 · 3:00 PM
Masses Sports Bar & Grill · Walnut Creek
$$
Fri, Oct 16 · 6:00 AM
O'Sullivan's Sports Pub | Bar Grill Sports · Newark
$$
Sun, Oct 18 · 4:00 PM
CJ's Saloon · Pleasant Hill
$
Sun, Oct 18 · 8:00 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Shafter
$
Sun, Oct 18 · 8:00 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Shafter
$
Mon, Oct 19 · 5:00 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Shafter
Free
Mon, Oct 19 · 6:00 PM
Funky Monkey · Hayward
$
Tue, Oct 20 · 4:00 PM
The BreakRoom · Downtown Berkeley
$$
Wed, Oct 21 · 4:00 PM
The BreakRoom · Downtown Berkeley
$$
Wed, Oct 21 · 7:30 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Rockridge
Free
Wed, Oct 21 · 7:00 PM
Tipsy Putt · Emeryville
$$
Wed, Oct 21 · 3:00 PM
Cellarmaker Brewing Co. · West Berkeley
$12
Wed, Oct 21 · 7:30 PM
Rockridge Improvement Club · Rockridge
Free
Sun, Nov 1 · 5:00 PM
Beeryland · Koreatown Northgate
Free
Aloha Club · Fruitvale
$
Aloha Club · Fruitvale
$
Mad Oak Bar ‘N’ Yard · Downtown Oakland
$$
Armistice Brewing Company · Richmond
CJ's Saloon · Pleasant Hill
$
Tupper & Reed · Downtown Berkeley
Free
CJ's Saloon · Pleasant Hill
$
Stampede · Livermore
$$
Gallagher's Dublin Pub · Dublin
$$
Jack London Square · Oakland
CJ's Saloon · Pleasant Hill
$
Beeryland · Northgate - Waverly
$$
19th hole sportsbar and cardroom · Antioch
Plank · Jack London Square
Pepper Tree Lounge · Union City
$
Sunshine Saloon Sports Bar and Charcoal Grill · Pleasanton
$
Stampede · Livermore
$$
West Alameda
$
El Cerrito
$
Walnut Creek
West Oakland
Lafayette
Union City
$
Castro Valley
$
El Cerrito
$
Rodeo
Antioch
$$
Pacheco
$
Grand Lake
$
Walnut Creek
$$
Rockridge
Pleasant Hill
$
Laurel
$
Southside
$$
Old San Leandro
Concord
$
Rockridge
$
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