The Brass Pelican Sample · invented business 000 Example St · Tue to Sun, 4pm to 2am Tonight
The back bar at night: amber bottles lit along a brass rail against deep green panelling

Cocktails and
live music

A small green room off Example Street. Someone is behind the stick until two, and most nights someone is on the stage.

000 Example St, San Francisco Tue–Sun 4pm–2am 21+

Tonight’s show Call the bar · (415) 555-0100

Tonight at the Pelican

Click the medal

The week ahead

This Week

Every show, every cover charge, always current. Tap a night for details and a link you can text somebody.

The owner updates this from the site itself, and the owner demo link below the calendar lets you try it.

    A dot marks a night with something on. Tap the day for details.

    Behind the stick

    Drinks

    Six cocktails we make properly and a short list of everything else. Happy hour Tuesday to Friday, 4-6pm, $2 off the cocktail list.

    • Cocktails
    • The Brass Pelican$16
    • Rye, amaro, orange bitters, one brandied cherry. The house drink, and the reason for the sign.
    • Fog Line Gimlet$15
    • Gin, lime cordial we cook down on Mondays, a little celery.
    • Barbary Coast$16
    • Mezcal, pineapple, lime, a chili tincture. Ask for it mild and we will believe you.
    • Presidio Sour$16
    • The Night Manager$15
    • Vodka, dry vermouth, an olive oil wash. Cold enough to hurt.
    • Marina Spritz, zero proof$11
    • Beer & wine
    • Fog City Lager, draft$8
    • Rotating IPA, draft$9
    • Red, white or sparkling$13
    • By the glass, in an actual wine glass. We upgraded.
    • The rest
    • Well drinks$11
    • Espresso, all night$4
    • Card is fine, cash is faster, and the machine by the door still charges too much.
    A bartender stirring a cocktail in a cut crystal mixing glass, a brass jigger and strainer resting on the green stone bar
    Doors at eight. Music at nine. Home before the neighbors vote.
    House rule, painted above the stage door

    Private hire

    Book the Back Room

    The back half seats about thirty, the stage fits your cousin’s band, and we will keep the room quiet if you want to hear each other. Tell us what you are planning and somebody will call you back.

    Pick a date. The back room cannot hold a maybe.
    How many people, roughly? A guess is fine.
    Need a name, or nobody knows who to call back.
    Need an email that looks like an email.
    The corner stage between sets: a vintage microphone, a small amplifier and a stool under a warm light

    Getting here

    Find Us

    Where

    000 Example St
    San Francisco, CA
    (415) 555-0100

    Look for the brass pelican over the door. He has been there longer than any of us.

    Hours

    • Tue–Thu4pm–1am
    • Fri–Sat4pm–2am
    • Sun2pm–midnight
    • MonClosed

    21+ always. The pelican does not card, but Denise does.

    From the developer

    Why I Built This Demo

    Most bar websites die the same way. The site goes up, the events page says whatever it said at launch, and nobody touches it again because touching it means emailing a developer. So regulars stop checking, and the one place that always knows what is on tonight is a chalkboard.

    This page is built the other way around. The lineup is data, and the site works out tonight, this week, and next month on its own. Old shows drop off by themselves. When a new act gets booked, the owner adds it right on the site, in under a minute. The owner demo link above the drinks list is live if you want to try that yourself.

    There is one more thing the calendar does that nobody sees. Every show on this page is also published as schema.org event data, rebuilt whenever the lineup changes, so search engines can list the bar's nights directly in results and on maps. A show added through the owner editor lands in that feed in the same second it lands on the page. Right now it carries 0 upcoming shows.

    The Brass Pelican is not a real bar; the calendar is the point. Because the venue is invented, this page asks search engines not to index it, so a fictional bar's events never turn up in real results. The engraving, the seal and the wing pattern were made for this sample, and the room photographs were generated for it.

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