Beloved Mission dive bar El Rio reopens for takeout after being closed for nearly a year
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El Rio is located at 3158 Mission St., San Francisco. The popular dive bar recently reopened for takeout.Lynne Angel
El Rio, a beloved Mission dive bar, is back in service after nearly a year of temporary closure.
Last Thursday, the popular bar reopened its doors for takeout service only where it plans to sell 16-ounce mixed cocktails and other alcoholic beverages along with assorted tamales by Frisco Pink from Friday through Sunday. SFist first reported the opening.
“I think we really miss[ed] our community,” said Lynne Angel, general manager at El Rio. “Even though it s in a limited capacity right now, it was great to see folks come through and support this past weekend.”
El Rio s new mural, Virgils at far right. | Photo: Joe Kukura/Hoodline
By Jay Barmann - Published on February 23, 2021.
Two bars, two different fates. Over in Bernal Heights/La Lengua, next-door bars El Rio and Virgil s Sea Room, which almost share a backyard were it not for a fence, have arrived at diverging moments in this COVID year. 11 months after closing down in the initial wave of business lockdowns, El Rio has reemerged with a fresh mural on its face, serving to-go cocktails and food items and hoping to one day soon be able to open that back patio again. But meanwhile Virgil s announces it is closing permanently, unable to float any longer with the debt that small businesses citywide have been shouldering.
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It’s only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays right now, but you can now ‘dive’ back in to the special magic of an El Rio cocktail paired with their new food menu.