PHONE
415.252.9289
HOURS
Monday - Wednesday 5:00pm–9:00pm Thursday 5:00pm–9:00pm
Friday 5:00pm–10:00pm
Saturday 3:00pm–10:00pm
Sunday 3:00pm–8:00pm
Closed Wednesday December 25
Closed Wednesday January 1
We have a large selection of fresh German beers on tap, bottles of German beer, German and Austrian wines.
RESERVATIONS
Please call us if you like to make a reservation for parties of 6 or larger. 415.252.9289
For parties smaller than 6 we welcome walk ins.
Place Order
Pick up available for Dinner Menu Only. Use Doordash to order delivery.
CATERING
We offer catering for small and large events (10 person minimum). Please call us to get more information and schedule.
Story
Two young, idealistic Germans, Fabricius/Fabrizio (Fabi) Wiest and Thomas Klausmann, opened Suppenküche in 1993. They loved San Francisco's spirit but missed beer culture from back home. The goal was to create an unpretentious, simple place where people could come together to share a beer and basic food with friends and strangers alike. They took a chance on Hayes Valley, which at that time was considered a dangerous, transitional neighborhood. In the spirit of community, they invited all the area merchants to inaugurate their new venture, and Suppenküche has been going strong ever since.
“We wanted to invite folks in to sit together. It was something new for Americans back then. In the old days, you’d sit with your girlfriend at a two-seater table. You were isolated. We were more like let’s all get together. It was fun. Everyone was sitting together, old and rich and young, the artists, and the weirdos. That’s how we started.”
Fabi Wiest in his 1971 Chrysler 300 in Hayes Valley
Suppenküche literally means Soup Kitchen in German. Fabi says he partly chose the name because he thought all Americans love soup (he has since learned they love beer even more), but also because he liked the reference to soup kitchens, which provide food and community to anyone in need.
In Southern Germany, beer is synonymous with community and tradition. German monks began brewing beer for mass consumption over a thousand years ago, and it remains a vital part of German culture to this day. Suppenküche carries on this tradition in Hayes Valley.
Suppenkuche is proud to sponsor the Valencia Street Rovers FC soccer club. Stay tuned for events & game schedule.
The Valencia Street Rovers FC is a new soccer team in San Francisco. We’ll play our first season in 2025, in the first division of the San Francisco Soccer Football League (SFSFL), the oldest amateur level men’s soccer league in the United States. Our team is made up almost entirely of kids from SF who all grew up together, many of us playing on the same club team for more than ten years, until we finished high school and most of us left for different places. Since then, we’ve all trickled back to the city – working jobs as teachers, as bartenders and servers, as firefighters, as petty bureaucrats – and always playing soccer under the Tuesday night lights at Mission Playground on Valencia St, our namesake. Some of our players have also been playing on other teams in the SFSFL, but now it’s time to finally come together again under one name, under one crest. That’s what Rovers FC is about. Though we’re an amateur team, the goal is to build a real identity and community around the club. We want to collaborate with places like Suppenküche and Biergarten, where we can go to celebrate when we win and also when we lose.
