This Taylor Swift-Themed Bar Will Turn Your Heartbreak Into Self-Love.
by Heather Cassell
Had a hard breakup? Single and tired of serial dating? No date for Valentine’s Day? Need a place to sob it out or reclaim yourself? Rather than sit at home with your favorite tub of ice cream, dust yourself off, take the night off, and take yourself out to let loose with your best single gals at Bad Blood.
The bar is a Swifties’ dream. Swifties are Taylor Swift fans and they’ve got your back, or Bucket Listers, the promotion company behind the pop-up bar do.
The bar’s name is an homage to Taylor’s 2015 single, “Bad Blood,” but has no connections to the Grammy-award winning hitmaker, Taylor, herself, according to Bucket Listers.
It doesn’t matter if Taylor will be at the bar in person or not. On Valentine’s Day, the day for lovers, and throughout February, Swifties are shaking it off and hanging out with their besties at the new unofficial pop-up Taylor Swift-themed bar, Bad Blood, in San Francisco.
That’s right, it’s a heartbreak bar that is also a shrine to Taylor Swift at the annex of Westwood at 2036 Lombard Street in the Marina.
Taylor knows a thing or two about ex-lovers and empowering herself. The bar features a wall of her exes. This bar is just the place to kiss off your ex-lover and say hello to freedom belting out some of Taylor’s greatest hits.
“Whether you want to sing about your lover, those who were never yours, those you’re never getting back together with, or those who still have your scarf, this is the perfect place for you,” Bucket Listers wrote on the reservation landing page that also gets a dig at Ticketmaster.
Your besties and you can grab a table for 90-minutes and sip cocktails named after Taylor’s song titles, such as “Lavender Haze,” “I Knew You Were Trouble,” and “Champagne Lover” to name a few items on the menu.
You can also write a letter to your exes and put it in a box.
Bad Blood is the brainchild of promoters, the Bucket Listers, who brought the bar to Chicago before it arrived in San Francisco, reported Thrillist. The promotion company also popped-up the Golden Girls diner in New York City and the Blockbuster Video store-themed pop-up bar in Los Angeles reported the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook.
Reservations are required to get into the bar. Entrance fees range from general admission for $18 up to a table for four for $66 for a 90-minute period. Get your table until mid-March (the bar is so popular it was extended from its original February 26 closing date).
