Breakfast sandos are back! This time Sour Kid Cafe + Quiet Earth are teaming up for coffees and sandos during our Liverpool and Man City watch party. Sandos start at 8am and run till sold out!!

Quiet Earth Coffee + Matcha service every Saturday and Sunday at Best Friends

Novelist Jim Shepard (National Book Award Finalist and “the best writer you've never heard of,” according to Vulture) joins us for a reading from his new book, The Queen of Bad Influences. Grab your copy here ahead of the event!

CA wine legend Craig Haarmeyer is in the house… and so is an Ovinloven pop-up!

Georgian Feast Night with Jeff Berlin (founder of Piala)! Together with Roni Ginach (founder of Roni Selects), one of CA's greatest importers of Georgian wines!

Three Corsican wines by female winemaker Stephanie Olmeta! A Corsican mini-feast by Jeff Berlin! (Ever had your cinghiale stufatu'ed?) And the films of Jacques Tati, replete with un-wonky lecture beforehand! (What the actual damn eff is this place called Best Friends, anyway? Is it magic? Ed. note)

Cuban-American Winemaker Pablo Antonio Suarez of Identity Wine Co takes over Best Friends bar for the night with a line-up of his latest releases!

Join us every Saturday + Sunday morning for Quiet Earth Coffee + Matcha service.

Join us every Saturday + Sunday morning for Quiet Earth Coffee + Matcha service.

South & Oest! Daffodil Projects + Winemaker Tahnee Shields. We have Oest in the house (pouring some of the greatest locally made wines you haven't tried yet) along with a pop-up with Daffodil Projects, local Chef Natchez Lee's mission to showcase the food & cooking techniques of the American South

Join us every Saturday + Sunday morning for Quiet Earth Coffee + Matcha service.

Join us every Saturday + Sunday morning for Quiet Earth Coffee + Matcha service.

Thursday 9/17 marks the return of one of the Bay Area's greatest chefs (Sitha Yim, whose family-run Khmer Kitchen was named one of the best restaurants in the Bay by the SF Chronicle a couple years back!). And the return of Eric Danch, one of the greatest storytellers, importers, and advocates for wine-as-pleasure-bringer in all of California. The last time we did it? It sold out!

Meal ticket: $65 for Sitha's five course omnivore! Here.

$50 for Sitha's five course veg-ivore! Here.

Only $30 for wine pairing! (Refundable w/ wine purchase!)

Free Corkage on bottles over $30 all day long!

Join us every Saturday + Sunday morning for Quiet Earth Coffee + Matcha service.

Round 2 breakfast sandos are back! This time we will have the Arsenal v. Chelsea game on, Quiet Earth coffee service and breakfast beers. Join us from 8:30am-12pm.

SAVE THE DATE: BF Comedy night returns! This time headlined by Punch Line regular Emily Van Dyke. Join our email list to be the first to reserve your seat. Grab your ticket HERE.

Ovinloven will be gracing Best Friends with her seasonally inspired, locally sourced sweet & savory pies on Wednesday, September 2nd from 5-8pm. Follow us on Instagram (@bestfriendsalbany) where we will be announcing the menu!

Join us on Thursday, August 27th to taste the wines of Molly Smith (Rosemary's Song), Craig West (Gearhead), and Graham Shelton (Slow Dance). 

Sour Kid Cafe is popping up at Best Friends on Saturday 8/8 with their infamous breakfast sandos. As always, Quiet Earth will be blessing us with coffee + matcha service. Grab a drink, grab a sandwich, bring a friend and join us for brunch Best Friends style.

Here are five people who were SF International Comedy Competition Semifinalists: Robin Williams; Ellen DeGeneres; Garry Shandling; Louis CK; Dana Carvey. I could go on, but you get it -- it's a benchmark.

Wanna know a sixth? Meet Dan Lewis, the NYC-based comic (not just an SF International Comedy Competition semifinalist, but also its*host*) who regularly hosts at SF Punchline and Cobb's when he's out here on the Best Coast… and has agreed to lead BF in laughter later this month!

Dan's lined up a stone-cold murderer's row of comics for us who perform regularly at the best clubs in the Bay; mark your calendars now!

BF Wine Club Member tickets: $10! Buy here.

Normies and civilians: $18! Buy here.

Did you read about it here? How about here? One of the most exciting restaurants in the Bay Area right now is the pop-up by Danny Stoller (Tilth! Daytrip! Square Pie Guys! Che Fico!): “an American Brasserie cooking food of the fallen French empire.” First Wednesday in July: this is where you wanna be for dinner.

Winemaker Quinn Hobbs takes over Best Friends! Tentatively slated for Wed, June 24th, 6 PM!

 One of the most insane winemakers in CA – a man who splits time between LA, Gilroy, and, um, Australia -- is back in town!

 From labels to juice, these are quite simply some of the funnest damn wines in the state – come meet the man behind them!

We're partnering with Fathers Brewing and the Movember Foundation (devoted to raising awareness of men's health issues) for “The Toast” – a Father's Day fundraiser on Saturday, June 20th — and we're helping them go for an all-time fundraising record. 

Come in from 12 - 6 and donate to the cause!  Every donor gets two drink tickets — one for you, and one for your dad — whether he's in the house with you or not!

What do you do when you learn that one of your absolute favorite winemakers in Austria is flying in for the World Cup? Why you put him to work the very next day! 

Indeed, the night after Andreas watches Das Team (no really, that's what Austrians call their soccer squad!) defeat Jordan at Levi's Stadium, Andreas will – a) work through his hangover, possibly worsened by an Austrian's first encounter with American beer, and b) cross the bridge to pour some of his newest releases with Dan, who's been working with the wines since before the pandemic.

12 PM: Mexico v South Africa

7 PM: South Korea v Czech Republic

Stay tuned for the full schedule of World Cup events hosted at Best Friends, but for now, know this: we're kicking off the tournament on Thursday, 6/11! 

Doors open at 11. Quiet Earth Coffee service in full effect. Cold beers. Wines from Mexico, South Africa, and Czechia. (We're still working on Korea!) And an ongoing raffle and a BF WC “pool,” both of which will run through the duration of the Cup!

ERIC DANCH AND THE KHMERAPALOOZA

Wed, June 10, 6 PM.

• 5 - 6 wines – from the importer that has almost singlehandedly defined the wines of Central Europe!

• A five-course Cambodian meal from the chef named by the SF Chron as one of the Best Restaurants in the Bay Area! (Yes, there's a veg option!)

• Specially Selected Music Spun by DJ Erik Danielson!

Meal ticket: $65 for Sitha's five course omnivore! Here.

$50 for Sitha's five course veg-ivore! Here.

Only $30 for wine pairing! (Refundable w/ wine purchase!)

It’s finally here, the reunion finale. We are hosting a watch party for the Summer House Reunion finale on Tuesday 6/9. Doors open at 7, show starts at 8!

Have the wines of Abruzzo finally arrived? Well, when Lebron James starts posting IG wines from his faves in the region, one's certainly forgiven for thinking that maybe southern Italy's finally caught up to its Loro Piano sweater-wearing cousins in the north. One of Abruzzo's great wineries – practicing biodynamic farming just like Lebron's beloved Emidio Pepe – is Terraviva… and we're thrilled to host Federica Topi for her first-ever tasting in the East Bay! Pecorino! Montepulciano! More!

At Best Friends, we're fortunate enough to have Big West co-founder Emily Weber as one our colleagues and homies – and so we're hosting an all-Cali Big West preview night, on Wed, 5/27! (Winemakers TBA.) Join us here for a sneak peek, and then head to Guerneville the following weekend for the whole tamale!