7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: the view from the DJ booth
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: featured drinks included No. 209 Gin cocktails, Beck's Sapphire, and Bud Light
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Brock Keeling, 7x7 editor-in-chief Chloe Harris, and Liam Passmore
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: catering provided by Lookout
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: owner Chris Hastings with Kevin Casey and Jocelyn Kane (SF Entertainment Commission)
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: No. 209 cocktails helped keep spirits high
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Susan Hwang, Julie Babin and Alfonso Rouillon
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: catering provided by Lookout
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: 7x7's Noel Kvisler with Jennifer Pollock
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: DJ Carnita of Hard French
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Jessie Vernon and Jenna Cresta
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: 7x7's Adam Shandobil with David Gordon and Dick Unsinn of Beck's and Bud Light
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Bud Light promo team Kyle Muse, Taylor Smith and Kyle Cizek
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: catering provided by Lookout
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Gian Carlo, Molly Grey, Toni Moore, Antoine Navleau
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Lauren Cooper, Bita Khaleghi and Bekka Grites enjoy No. 209 Gin in a French 75 cocktail
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Alvin Teodoro and Will Capaias enjoy No. 209 Gin in a Gingerberry Snap cocktail
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: raffle winner Dan with a Chronicle Books prize bag
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: raffle winner
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Caitlin Donohue & Kelly Lovemonster (ahdm4u.com) flank David Richardson of House of Babes
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Rommel Valerio, 7x7's Andre Angeles, dancer Paul, 7x7's John Verduzco and Jeremy Paz
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: catering provided by Lookout
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Bryan Anthony flanked by a friend and 7x7's Jeremy Paz
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: the famed balcony overlooking Market Street in the Castro
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Sarah, Kurty and Melinda
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Sahrmin Sadoughi, Sanam Nassirbour and Tanya Kaushik
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Michael Gamilla, Silvia Santizo and Sophoan Sorn
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: Rodger Reiss, Sahrmin Sadoughi, Sanam Nassirbour, Moj Sheik and 7x7's Adam Shandobil
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: 7x7's Riley Manlapaz flanked by Ben Hopfer and Hallie Kilbert
7x7 Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout: held during SF's historic Pride Week
Readers, clients, visitors, locals and staffers converged at Lookout in the heart of the Castro on one of the year's warmest days to celebrate the momentous SCOTUS rulings during San Francisco's biggest week.
Guests took to the venue's famed wraparound balcony overlooking Market Street to share their joy with passersby below, while enjoying icy cold beers from Beck's Sapphire and longtime SF Pride sponsors Bud Light, and specialty cocktails made with San Francisco's own No. 209 Gin (see recipes below.)
Lookout also provided a generous spread from their catering menu, while special guest DJ Carnita of the new-classic monthly party Hard French provided a hot soundscape of old-school R&B and soul gems. We also had folks from The House of Babes selling last-minute tickets to their super-popular Dyke March afterparty benefitting nonprofit LYRIC—anyone who managed to score a ticket was also entered into a raffle for prizes provided by Chronicle Books, the Frameline37 Film Fest, and SF Pride itself.
Lookout, 3600 16th Street, lookoutsf.com
Photos: Nikki Ritcher Photography | nikkiritcher.com
Specialty cocktails at 7x7's Pride 2013 Happy Hour at Lookout
209 AND TONIC
With No. 209 Gin
209 MARTINI
3 oz. No. 209 Gin, 1/8 oz. Dry Vermouth
Shake over ice for 10 seconds and garnish with lemon peel
FRENCH 75
1 oz. No. 209 Gin, 1/2 oz. lemon juice, 1/2 oz. simple syrup, sparkling white wine
Shake gin, lemon juice and syrup over ice. Strain into a flute and top off with bubbly. Garnish with lemon peel
209 GINGERBERRY SNAP
1 oz. No. 209 Gin, 4 oz. cranberry juice, 2 oz. Bruce Cost Ginger Ale
Serve over ice
