L’Amour Nightclub

Have to give a 5 star for free tea!!! It’s fun if u bring all ur fun friends

I visited on an off-​night. No one was around except for the workers and a few regulars at the bar.
I’m still interested in seeing the place in its full glory.

L’Amour? Um, try Lame More.
Feels like walking into a Tijuana nightclub going underground into a cheesy wonderland… which, after having a couple shots & beers at the Buddha bar, cheesy was just what we were looking for.
Cheesy, yes… dirty, yes… rude bartenders, yes… old guy singing WAY too many Chinese karaōke songs, yes. Did I mention dirty? See the pic I uploaded of their urinal… that’s what I’d expect in a 3^rd world country.
This place is lame, plain and simple. Avoid at all costs. Buddha bar on Grant (and the place across the street from BB) are both great. L’Amour, not so much.

In a word tacky, if that is your style you enjoy this place!

YES. This place is so weird and awesome. Everyone that I’ve taken there either hates it’s seediness and general sketchy feel, or totally loves it for those exact reasons. The bartenders are totally rude, and it takes forever to actually get to sing your songs, but if you can get past that this place is totally entertaining. The walls are painted red with cheap plastic glow-​in-​the-​dark stars stuck all over the place, and it’s full of decrepit couches.
Also, it seems some shady business goes on here. I’ve been told that L’Amour is a «hostess bar,» where women work there chatting up men and getting them to buy them drinks. Ok fine, but this past weekend I took a group of friends there and we witnessed it go a little further. At one point one of my friends turned to me and said ‘umm…look over there in the corner???” and sure enough, one of the dudes I had seen at the bar a few minutes before with one of these ladies was getting a HAND JOB from her right out in the open, underneath a lamp in a corner, so everything was perfectly lit. This hj went on for over 20 minues and they didn’t budge, even though we were all obviously gawking and cracking up.
Not exactly the classiest joint in SF, but definitely one of the most unique. Every experience I’ve had there has been totally bizarre and amazing.

undergound dank bar in chinatown… it’s fucking huge and dark and filled with dirty couches, cheap shitty beer and booze, hookers, cigarette smoke, and old asian men singing Celine Dion songs…
perfect!

Out in Chinatown on a Saturday night, we were fresh out of Red’s & looking for a spot to have one final nightcap, when we caught a few notes of «My Heart Will Go On» on the breeze…
Down one flight of stairs & through the sexy red doors, we came upon an orgy of chrome, neon & red vinyl all aglow in candlelight & accentuated by the sound of shrill &/​or tonedeaf Chinese people singing bad Cantopop songs.
Make it a Tsingtao & don’t think twice about paying the five bucks for one (five bucks?!), because it will be one less moment you have to worship this place.
I fucking love Chinatown.

Chinatowns secret treasure. So secret in fact that i forgot the name, couldn’t find it on Unilocal,and have been waiting to find it somewhere on the Internet so i could review it. Today, I got tired of trying to find the listing myself, so i asked my friend who i was with. Don’t know why i didn’t do that from the beginning.
OK. So, let me set the scene. Paul Clark wants to go on a Chinatown pub crawl. Paul Clark loves him some Chinatown. I only use his full name because he is not just Paul, and he always talks about himself in the third person. We come up with four bars, starting with the Buddha Bar of course. My roommates Carly, Ed and I all meet Paul Clark and head over to the first stop. Great time, yadda yadda as is the Buddha bar. LiPo is closed for some reason, we go to Red’s, drink more, yadda yadda, and cruise on to our final destination, which oddly enough i cant remember what it originally was supposed to be.
That’s when we see it. The sign for L’Amour Night Club. Oooooh! Could this be a strip club? We are definitely all thinking it. That would make for a great end to the pub crawl! We see bright red puffy plastic on the doors to the entrance, in which you have to walk down stairs off the sidewalk just to reach them, the word L’Amour…why wouldn’t it be a strip club? So, we decide to continue our adventure and walk in. OK… Soooo not a strip club. Might have been at some point, I think I saw poles around, but I could be mistaken. The place is bright red and HUGE! Its this enormous space, with couches all over and tables in between, and bright red neon over the bar and on the walls, and to the left a big screen playing some sort of videos. What is that???
OMG! Its a karaōke bar! So we immediately go to the bar, grab some drinks, and find some spots on a couch across the table from the only other white folks in the place. Looking around for the stage, I couldn’t find it. It was weird, but the microphones came to you! You sign up for a song, and they bring you the microphones, where you sing from your area! No pressure, stay comfy. Here is where it gets interesting though. The only songs they have… are Chinese pop, and American love songs. Obviously I’m not hip to the Chinese pop, but hell yes do i know love songs. So the four of us chose. Selections were slim… but we sang «Reunited» (and it feels so good!), and the four of us did an amazing rendition of «I’ve Had the Time of My Life». We shut this place down, laughed at what had just transpired, I got a phone number from one of the other dudes at our table, and we went on our way. Seriously, words can not capture this place for what it truly is. This night is permanently etched in my memories as one of my favorites ever. I don’t know if another Chinatown pub crawl will compare.
I must find it again… I must sing for the Chinese one more time… I must be reunited, so i can have the time of my life.

The best Karaōke whore house I’ve ever been to. I’ve stumbled into this place a few times with big groups and I think they hate us. They tried to charage a friend $ 25 for a beer and there are girls that work there that will sit with you while you sing. Never really figured this place out but definately 2 stars for the best reverb in the city.