The Interval at Long Now

The Interval at Long Now Serving coffee, tea & cocktails in a museum of mechanical wonders & thousands of books. Home of The A bar, cafe, museum, event venue, and library.
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The Interval at Long Now is a social venue and the home of The Long Now Foundation. It's a place to enjoy a cocktail or coffee, see a thought-provoking lecture, browse shelves of great books, learn more about Long Now's projects, and have amazing conversations. We are a public space as well as a gathering place for Long Now fans, friends, and members.

A sip of Autumn.Umami perfection is found in August’s “Short Here” cocktail created by . Carrot Tea infused Vodka, Kombu...
08/22/2025

A sip of Autumn.

Umami perfection is found in August’s “Short Here” cocktail created by . Carrot Tea infused Vodka, Kombu simple syrup, and Nori steeped Blanc Vermouth stirred with a Lemon Peel, all garnished with slices of pickled carrot - a California Roll inspired riff on the “Martinez”.

Join us this weekend to catch a sip.

Join The Interval team.If you have a passion for hospitality, craft cocktails, and engaging with a curious, intellectual...
07/24/2025

Join The Interval team.

If you have a passion for hospitality, craft cocktails, and engaging with a curious, intellectually driven community, you may be The Interval’s next bartender. We are now accepting applications.

Beauty and the Book. From the very beginning, the Interval was designed to be both a place for intellectual thought as-w...
07/15/2025

Beauty and the Book. From the very beginning, the Interval was designed to be both a place for intellectual thought as-well-as a place of beauty. So it is with great pride that we have been nominated by as one of the most beautiful book-cafés in the world.

With our recent decennial, the revival of our exhibition space, and our carefully maintained manual for civilization, has never been better.

But we need your help. Voting for the awards ends today, and your vote will help secure a spot as the one of the most beautiful book-cafés in the world.

Follow Link in Bio to Vote today!

How will AI shape our understanding of ourselves?Join us next week for a Long Now Talk from K Allado-McDowell on Neural ...
02/20/2025

How will AI shape our understanding of ourselves?

Join us next week for a Long Now Talk from K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media, February 25, 7 PM at the Cowell Theater at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

K's work as a technologist, writer, and musician has explored how our technocultural media regimes shape our creativity and self-perception. Against the backdrop of climate change and mass extinction, neural media like AI present unique challenges and opportunities. K has pioneered neural media, founding the Artists + Machine Intelligence at Google and writing books and composing operas in collaboration with non-human agents. Their work has tested the limits and potentials of these new technological forces. K Allado-McDowell’s work confronts those opportunities with deep engagement, forging a path ahead to a merging of planetary, computational, and human perspectives.

Interval Decennial.This summer marks the ten year anniversary of The Long Now Foundation’s bar, cafe, and event space — ...
06/21/2024

Interval Decennial.

This summer marks the ten year anniversary of The Long Now Foundation’s bar, cafe, and event space — The Interval. To commemorate The Interval’s Decennial, we’re reimagining The Interval as not just an award-winning cocktail bar, but as an exhibition on long-term thinking.

Over the past decade, The Interval has become a hub for long-term thinking, a home for Long Now Talks, and a gathering place for great conversation and connection.

But The Interval could be so much more. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’re re-opening The Interval this September with a brand new exhibition featuring artifacts from Long Now’s history and a vision for our future.

The exhibition will tell the story of long-term thinking in a way that connects deeply with both long-time Long Now members and with first-time visitors to The Interval for whom these concepts might be entirely new.

At the core of the exhibition is a painting by Casey Cripe illustrating the long now: the past 10,000 years and the 10,000 years to come.
The Interval will close on Wednesday, August 21 to install the new exhibition and reopen on Saturday, September 7. We also hope you’ll join us on September 14 and 15 for The Interval Decennial Member Weekend. Become a Long Now member to learn more.

Whether you’re a regular at The Interval or still looking forward to your first visit, we’re excited to welcome you to our reimagined home for long-term thinking.

Link in Bio for excellent article and details about the Decennial by >

A place for conversation.If you sit for a drink, or a date, in one particular leather-bound nook across from the bar , y...
05/16/2024

A place for conversation.

If you sit for a drink, or a date, in one particular leather-bound nook across from the bar , you might notice a single framed picture that hangs from the lamp above your head.

The archival image and text includes an 01863 photograph of Jessie Benton Fremont on the porch of a small victorian home nicknamed “Porters Lodge” that was situated at “Black Point” - the small rocky peninsula that is now the site of and .

Benton was the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and was married to military officer and early explorer John C. Fremont. Raised in Washington D.C., Benton was a prolific writer and author who brought political activism, abolitionist beliefs, and an intellectual sensibility to San Francisco (despite living at a time when women were discouraged from these activities) and drew intellectuals, celebrities, and artists, to literary and political salons held at the home.

It’s interesting to think that this particular part of San Francisco has been a place for conversation, discourse, and intellectual pursuits for over 160 years - a tradition that carries on to this day.

Link in bio to read more about Jessie Benton Fremont >

Big Weekend.If you think of the weekend as the two days between Friday and Monday - you might be missing out on a much b...
05/11/2024

Big Weekend.

If you think of the weekend as the two days between Friday and Monday - you might be missing out on a much bigger picture. But, if you think of this weekend through the lens of long term thinking, things get pretty exciting:

This weekend is really just part of a “Long Now” - a larger story that originates in the deep past and stretches far into the future - a pivotal moment in a grand 20,000 year timespan.

AND you will be living it out in a “Big Here” - the place you inhabit (your home, your town, your region) as inseparable from a larger geographical and ecological context (The whole Earth)

So, if laundry and house chores + brunch sound a bit boring for this weekend, try on some “Big Here and Long Now” thinking and make this a weekend to be remembered…

> Link in bio to read more about the “Big Here and Long Now” by Long Now Foundation Co-founder

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Fort Mason Center, Bldg A
San Francisco, CA
94123

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Monday 5pm - 11pm
Tuesday 10am - 12am
Wednesday 10am - 11pm
Thursday 10am - 11pm
Friday 10am - 11pm
Saturday 1pm - 11pm
Sunday 1pm - 10pm

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