Tei Gundolfi described it best: stepping into Zam Zam on Haight Street is like walking into “the most beautiful little jewel box.”

The red lights, the curved arc of the bar that dominates the little front room, the glistening bottles of liquor stacked up to the Persian mural behind it and the antique cash register in the center — the space is otherworldly.

It’s like the scene in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” in which the main character hops into a random car that takes him to a party in a bar that just so happens to be in the 1920s. (Allen actually filmed a scene from one of his other movies, “Blue Jasmine,” at Zam Zam.)

Gundolfi said she stumbled upon the place while looking for a bartending job 20 years ago and felt so drawn to it that she never left. That makes her the longest-se

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