Part of the Gay San Diego Guide — bars, events & things to do.
San Diego, California
Hillcrest women's bar and restaurant, open since 2009.
Gossip Grill is San Diego's women's bar and one of only a few dozen lesbian bars left in the country — a genuinely rare thing, and the social center of queer-women's nightlife in Hillcrest. It opened on University Avenue in 2009, stepping into the gap left when The Flame closed in 2004, and has grown into a full restaurant-and-bar with a year-round patio, a firepit, and a dance floor that fills at night. The crowd is femme-forward but everyone's welcome, and the week is built around programming: drag shows, karaoke, bingo, and a weekend drag brunch off a modern-American kitchen. For a traveler it's worth planning a night around — there aren't many bars like it left anywhere, and this is the one San Diego still has.
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