The G-Spot

401 6th Street (at the Endup)

Saturday evenings

Women, waterfalls and, well, women. This corner club South of Market is a split-level, multi-room emporium of eros -- if you so desire. G-Spot is not quite the meat market of Club Q, but it's as easy to meet people here as in a neighborhood bar. No pervasive attitude, outside of the usual hard-core dyke front, which I hate anyway. But I aggressively digress. The place is homey enough to hang with your posse, and large enough that single entrants are not throbbing sore thumbs.

Cover is $8, but ask for a G-Spot Club Card, which gives you $3 off if you arrive before 10 p.m., and your tenth visit is free. Two bars offer the usual range of cocktails but serve no draft beers. A stage next to the front bar is for dancers, from the cute tank-top-and-jeans girl to the Lisa-Loeb-in-leather lady. Scary to me, but to each her own. The back room has a pool table and a couple leather-upholstered dens in semi-darkness, and then past the back bar you have the Endup's crowning glory - the patio. Love the patio. A wooden deck runs the length of the club, so you can walk in and out of the back room as well as through open sliding glass doors to the dance floor. Further off the deck is a cement patio, also running the length of the club, and back-lit in one corner is a mossy waterfall. It's a beautiful spot, especially on a clear Pacific night, and you can everything and everyone from here.

Inside, the dance floor is central to the club and a good size for moving around. The floor leads a step down back to the front bar, which is a large circular number that's sunny and thronged on one side, and dark and personal on the other.

I had only one complaint about the whole place - the music. If you're looking for any serious hip-hop, or even old-school tunes that make you go, "Oh my God, I love this song," G-Spot is not the venue. It's mostly a generic mix of pop songs, none of which I recognized until later in the night. But who goes to G-Spot for the music anyway?

The greatest attraction of the G-Spot - besides the patio, love the patio -- is that there's something for everyone. You can make it a night out to play pool and riot with your girls, sit quietly with your girlfriend inside or out, jam on the dance floor, or watch the dancers watching you. And it's nice to see a diverse crowd - definitely multi-cultural and multi-age. Many folks from across the Bay come in for the night, so if you live in San Francisco, you know it's worth the trip.

Jenny Pritchett

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