Lighthouse Bar & Grille

OVERVIEW

The Lighthouse Bar & Grille at 303 Johnson Street sits inside Clipper Yacht Harbor, one of Sausalito’s working marinas north of the tourist corridor, drawing boaters, locals, and waterfront regulars who prefer the authentic northern end of town. Evolved from the former Seafood Peddler, a long-established Marin institution, it serves fresh seafood and cold drinks in an atmosphere shaped by the working marina around it. The name carries no pretense — it earns it. Less than two miles west, Point Bonita Lighthouse has stood at the entrance to the Golden Gate since 1855, and every vessel that has ever called on Sausalito passed beneath its beam.

HISTORY

Point Bonita Lighthouse was lit in 1855 — the height of the California Gold Rush — built specifically to guide ships safely through the treacherous, fog-choked entrance to the Golden Gate. It was the third lighthouse on the West Coast and the most urgent: San Francisco had exploded from a village of 1,000 to a city of 25,000 in a single year, and every ship carrying fortune-seekers from the East Coast, from South America, from Hawaii, had to navigate these same deadly waters. Every 49er who ever panned the Sierra Nevada foothills passed beneath that beam on their way in. The lighthouse that watched over Sausalito was, first and foremost, a Gold Rush lighthouse. Today, directly across the Bay on Treasure Island, Gold Bar Whiskey distills that same story into a bottle shaped like a solid gold bar, with a “Lady of Fortune” coin on every label that reads: “may her light reveal your fortune’s path.” The light at Point Bonita. The gold in the Sierra. One glass connects them both.

COUNTRY USA * California

FEATURED WHISKEY - Gold Bar Double Cask Straight Bourbon

Gold Bar Whiskey, Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay, California  ·  46% ABV

Crafted on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay — the spot where the Golden Gate Exposition once stood — and double cask-finished in Napa Valley wine barrels. Bold layers of smoke, spicy rye, and creamy fruit, with a long oak finish. The bottle is cast as a gold bar; the “Lady of Fortune” medallion on the label stands before the Sierra Nevada and reads: “may her light reveal your fortune’s path.” The Gold Rush in a glass, poured in the city it built.