Drumm Liquor & Deli

Not open late as Unilocal claims, this place was closed before midnight, lights on and 2 employees inside playing with their phones, what a joke and a waste of time.

Be careful of this place. Being new to San Francisco they charged me $ 38.03 for a normal sized Sky Vodka.
Obviously I thought this was the normal SF price. Next day at Safeway I saw a bottle twice the size for $ 19.99. Sure, it’s Safeway, but still — it leaves me with 2 options:
1. I was scammed
2. The markup is around 200%
Either one is bad. You have been warned.

This is more of a wine shop than Liquor store. Id guess a couple hundred bottles of decent wines, some okay beers, and had the basic Liquors found at most other stores, albeit a little more expensive. You really won’t find cheap booze here, as in inferior mass produced crap, but higher end stuff. No foo foo mixers or trendy Liqueurs here either.

Drumm Liquor & Deli is a great place to buy an affordable sandwich when there isn’t a thing at the Hyatt Regency that you’re staying at. Especially on a Saturday night around 8:00 when hardly anything decent in the area is open.
The good news is that it is right across the street from the Hyatt so as long as your attempt at playing Frogger across Drumm Street is successful, you’re in for a solid deli sandwich.
They have several sandwich options which range between $ 7-​$ 9 give or take. I got a California Turkey which had turkey breast, mayo, mustard, avocado, lettuce and a few other things that I can’t remember. I think it was about $ 7.50-$ 8. It was actually pretty sizable and filling.
I wasn’t as impressed with their beer selection but they had some solid go to beers. Maybe San Diego has spoiled me for craft beers found in liquor stores but I was looking for more SF local options than I saw here.
Either way, this is my close proximity, «go to» sandwich joint if I’m going to be staying at the Hyatt. It isn’t going to be the best thing you’ve ever had but it beats the Subway down the way.

Whenever I feel like paying double for something, I hit up the drumm market. Great selection at double the price

This is one of a number of stores all owned by the same owner, however I believe it is the only convenience store in the family. The other stores are restaurants known for their delicious middle eastern food or the burger joint (which is also great).
The problem with this store is that unlike a family restaurant, a convenience store produces nothing unique and only re-​sells commodity items, and therefore cannot have the same markups as the other stores in this chain. This message hasn’t suck through, and so you have a mostly empty convenience store selling items for 30% more than any other convenience store in downtown. Even more unusual is the markups applied for the falafels, baklava, and other food items made by Oasis on the same block. How can you charge more for an identical item sold 40 feet away from you by your sister store?
When I confronted the manager about the price discrepancies, his response was to say that he had enough customers and didn’t need to try to attract any more. So if you want your $ 15 six pack of beer, $ 8.50 pack of cigarettes, or $ 4 candy bars, then this is the place to go.

Popped in this place today and ordered a chicken salad sandwich on a dutch crunch roll. The lady behind the counter grabbed two freshly roasted chicken breasts and I stopped her thinking she misheard me. But then she smiled at me and proceeded to chop the fresh chicken up, chopped up some onions and fresh tomatoes, combined them all together with spices and a little mayo and I had the best chicken salad sandwich I have ever had, period.

These guys are aces. I realized I’m come downtown for a business meeting without a pen so I stopped in to see if they had some in stock. They don’t sell them, but the proprietor dug around and found one, made sure that it worked well, and gave it to me. Saved the day!

This places marks up even the cheapest wine by 2 or 3 or 4 times. For example, the pretty decent Menage a Trois Red which costs like $ 10 in other liquor stores costs a whopping $ 24 dollars here. I’m totally avoiding this place.

I decided to give Drumm Liquor & Deli another try and was so glad I did! The deli counter has been redone and the place is spotless. I chose a ham and swiss sandwich on rye. The person behind the counter actually sliced the ham to order, which you don’t see too often. And they had marble rye, which I love! My sandwich was enormous and enough for two people. Major score for $ 5.99.
I’ll be back. One note: their health score is 98 out of 100, so much higher than their sister restaurant, Oasis Grill, right down the block.

A wine place, snack place, convenient store, even a home made sandwiches place. Excellent service, well mannered employees.
You find the usual stuff, and some cool stuff you have not seen in years.

Drumm had the best customer service and delicious sandwiches. Something changed and now their service is absolutely terrible.
Their employee «Anna», sure that’s not her real name, felt it necessary to debate the variance between credit and debit cards.
Even if you are right, why are you arguing with your customers?
Sad. Now the only thing to marvel at is their incredibly over priced liquor.

Ordered alcohol for a Salesforce blitz/​happy hour today and it never arrived. I’ve called them 5 times and they have told me 5 more minutes or hung up on me. The drinks are now 40 minutes late and the meeting is soon over. I will definitely be sending a company and event wide email through Salesforce telling them to not use Drumm.

They sell alcohol, snacks, and a variety of counter-​served food like falafal balls, greek salad, etc. No mystery here — a liquor store mixed with a super mini deli.
That being said, this is one of the most expensive liquor stores in the city for being so damn shitty. Fucking unbelievable, really. $ 2.99 coors light 24oz. $ 13 Guinness 4-​packs. $ 18 Rogue sixers. It’s practically bar prices to go. God only knows what their liquor or food prices are like — I strictly get road-​tallboys (Roadboys?) for Fridays BART so I have no idea.
By my observation, their business model is to feed on a steady diet of homeless alcoholics, vacationers, and other people with limited transportation options (in that order). I discovered long ago that there ain’t much selection in the FiDi for beer stores, so they’ve got you as a captive market.
I’d go elsewhere if I could but they’ve got me by the sober and curly’s. Another $ 2.99 Roadboy, please.

Bang the drumm.
In my younger days was quite the fan at sporting events:
In my current days am quite the fan at lunch: Drumm’s delicious turkey, hummus and veggies on a wheat roll sandwich.
Made by the friendly staff in less than five minutes. Eaten in less time than it takes to watch bad ‘80s videos.
It was a late lunch. It was an $ 8 well spent.

$ 5.99 for a good reuben in San Francisco’s market district?
HELL YES.
maybe it’s not the BEST reuben I’ve ever had, but I’ve had some really really good reubens.
It’s made right, with the right ingredients, the meat is good, it tastes great, and you can’t argue with that price in that location. I’m so glad this place exists. I’ve tried the turkey too, it was good, but I really prefer the reuben.

I have walked by this place hundreds of times without noticing that they have food! Today, I was walking at just the right angle and noticed the dolmas in the deli case which led me to believe that this place might have falafel (one of my favorite foods!) and lo and behold, when I walked in they most certainly did.
I said just a little bit spicy, but what I got was mouth on fire flaming spice, so fellow spice wimps beware. I will definitely say not spicy next time.
It was pretty good, not as good as Oasis or Locali but solid and a good lunch portion.
On an unrelated note, they have a HUGE wine selection and lots of mini liquor bottles which is good to know about for rough days at work…

I’m always walking through this neighborhood around lunch time and yesterday this sign caught my eye, «½ Sandwich with soup or salad special, $ 4.99». I’m always looking for a good cheap lunch, so I peeked in and mentally bookmarked it for the next day.
So today, my coworker and I headed down to Drumm Liquor and Deli. I ordered a ½ Peppered Turkey with Cheddar, everything on it, on a Dutch crunch roll and a side green salad. It was pretty big for a ½ of a sandwich and the salad was more than just a side salad. Unfortunately there are no pictures of my lunch since I was half way through it before I realized it.
They serve Boar’s Head Meat and Cheeses, have really fresh salads and sides, chocolates and have one of the largest Liquor selections I’ve seen downtown. The people there were very friendly and my lunch was very good, nice to find another cheap FiDi find.

The falafel special at Drumm Liquor and Deli is a great deal for lunch under $ 5 in the Fidi. I wanted a change from the usual so I decided to get it while my colleague got a sandwich down the street.
It’s a generous serving of falafel, hummus, and tahini accompanied by some lettuce ad tomato. (
) Nothing fancy, but nothing too wrong about it either. While it seemed like a good idea when I ordered it, I was all falafel-​ed our by the time I was done with lunch. Don’t think I’m gonna crave falafel too soon.
But Drumm Liquor and Deli appears to have much more to offer that warrants a return visit. From sandwiches to wraps and yes… lots of liquor. Extra shout-​out for keeping the store and prep area really clean and the lines moving fast. Oh and they take cards too!

I was in SF for a quick business trip. Running late on my lunch break, i was looking for a cheap and quick digg… WOW. I saw this wine store with what looked like a deli counter. the service was quick and friendly.
You see this is the reason im sad that I live in Long Beach. One cannot find these kinds of gems in the LBC. Here my pallet is limited to burgers, tacos and pizza if on a budget.. . But in the bay area i always find these yummy dives that are easy on the wallet.
I ordered the Lavosh with Jerusalem Chicken. Its basically a wrap sandwich on lavosh bread. Heated to perfection on a iron skillet clamp. Wow the marinade on the chicken was insane on the taste buds not to mention the spicy tzaziki sauce, and the finely minced cucumber yougurt. Ive never had anything this amazing on the go. It was a mere 6 bucks and big enough to feed two people.
…Im talkin this thing was the size of a baby! The only thing that made me sad was that I could not finish it. i wish they had offered a smaller size. I ate and ate and ate, till i thought i would be sick. … but it was so damn yummy, i couldnt stop. lol