# The Lark, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/the-lark-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-09.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/the-lark-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

The Lark is a sports bar in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 69 of 100, which is good.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Sports bar |
| Address | 685 Market St Ste 140 A, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 12 PM to 2 AM · Sun 10 AM to 2 AM |
| Phone | (415) 952-7504 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 697 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Updated | September 9, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 685 Market St Ste 140 A, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Low-key neighborhood sports bar with beer, shots & spirits, plus bar bites in a dimly lit space. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM · Sun 10:00 AM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Lark | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 952-7504 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Bar bites | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Beer | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Pizza | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Shots | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Spirits | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Sports viewing | AI guess |  |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/thelarksf | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | http://www.thelarkbar.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 1 service The Lark offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pizza |  |  |  | From their website |


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## Visiting The Lark

Address: 685 Market St Ste 140 A, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. Phone: (415) 952-7504. Hours: Mon to Sat 12 PM to 2 AM · Sun 10 AM to 2 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Low-key neighborhood sports bar with beer, shots & spirits, plus bar bites in a dimly lit space."


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Market St & 3rd St | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Junbi Matcha & Tea - San Francisco | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| Market St & Kearny St | Transit stop | 1 min walk |
| Joyride Pizza, Market St | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Market St/Kearny St/Montgomery St | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Lotta's Fountain | Fountain | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 697 reviews: Google 697. (Confirmed, read September 9, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 697 reviews.)


### What people like

- Expertly made cocktails like Hotel Nacional and Espresso Martini
- Impressive selection of whisky at good prices
- Detroit style pizza and local drafts


### What people do not like

- Rude and dismissive bartenders
- Long waits for service during busy events
- Overpriced drinks compared to nearby bars


### Press

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### best sports bar in San Francisco


### anyone been to both here and Golden Gate?


### when is this place actually dead?


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### pricey at The Lark, or about normal?


### people keep recommending this place, what for?


### Are the hours on Google right for The Lark in San Francisco?


### anything new here lately?


### first visit at The Lark, what do I need to bring?


### does The Lark ever have cancellations


### is San Francisco expensive for this, or is it just here


### Coffee near The Lark on Market?


### Any membership pricing here?


### Whereabouts is The Lark?


### Why do people rate The Lark?


### going rate for bars locally, any idea


## The AI Score: 69 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco sports bars run 25 to 69. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Lark scores 69, above the San Francisco average of 36. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Lark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 |  | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. |  |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 67 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 53 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 74 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a sports bar: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to The Lark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Lark | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.thelarkbar.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City The Lark is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the sports bars in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best sports bars in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/sports-bar
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJQ7-WcoiAhYARhy9j17oeBCA (accessed Sep 9, 2026)
- [2] thelarkbar.com, https://www.thelarkbar.com/pizza (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 9, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)