Rikki's, the Bay Area's first women's sports bar and restaurant, preparing to open in the Castro
It didn’t make sense to Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich: Women’s sports are exploding, but why are there no women’s sports bars?
The two friends had met playing soccer with the San Francisco Spikes and were often looking for a place to watch Bay FC after their own games on Saturdays.
“We’d call places days in advance, and they’d say, ‘We don’t have the channel,’ but it was on regular TV,’” Yergovich said. “It was a struggle. We realized there wasn’t anywhere in SF to watch.”
This May, that’s going to change.
Thoe and Yergovich are opening Rikki’s, believed to be the Bay Area’s first women’s sports bar and restaurant, in the city’s Castro district. Rikki’s is named after Rikki Streicher, a community activist who founded the Gay Games in 1982 and started two queer women’s bars, Maud’s and Amelia’s, before her death in 1994.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/03/rikkis-the-bay-areas-first-womens-sports-bar-and-restaurant-preparing-to-open-in-the-castro/
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