The SantaCon Red Tide Returns Saturday, But Dozens of SF Bars Now Actually Welcoming the Santas

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/10/the-santacon-red-tide-returns-saturday-but-dozens-of-sf-bars-now-actually-welcoming-the-santas/You better watch out, as Santacon is back on Saturday. But many SF bars are actually rolling out the red carpet to welcome the Santas, a pretty remarkable culture shift for this jolly old event that had gotten too blitzened. The naughty list will surely grow larger on Saturday, as the “fat, bearded Bay To Breakers” known as SantaCon, will draw an expected 12,000 people red-suited revelers. The flash mob of Santas will begin congregating in Union Square at 12 noon, and then rooty-toot-toot and rummy-tum-tum all over town in ways that are impossible to predict, but the red menace will likely migrate towards neighborhoods with plen