San Francisco

What is a good place in San Francisco to go to dine and dance after a private wedding?

My mom is 44 yrs old and is having a small private wedding in San Francisco. She wants to go eat and dance afterwards. Any suggestions as to where to go?

My husband and I got married in SF, same thing, small wedding and we went to a really elegant dinner at Acquarello which was delicious Italian food in an old church (perfect for wedding attire as it's formal dress code). http://www.acquerello.com/

Then we went dancing and had drinks at Top of the Mark, which someone already mentioned. http://www.topofthemark.com/entertainment.html
That is a great, traditional "dancing" place for mature people. I don't mean mature like gray hair and walkers, but not a night club. It's classy jazz music you can dance to. We rented a limo to take us from place to place since there weren't that many of us, and that made it really easy to get from one point to the other without having to worry about parking. It also gave us the ability to zip all over town to have our wedding pictures taken in front of the "Painted Ladies", China beach, Japanese Tea Garden, Shakespeare Garden, etc.

I personally wouldn't recommend going to Jazz at Pearls for seveal reasons. The first being that it's an actual concert venue, which means no talking. I think that on the night of a wedding, it kind of brings the celebration to an abrupt halt to go sit and watch a jazz show. It's better to go somewhere that has live jazz to have drinks where you can still socialize and celebrate. Secondly, something dreadful is going on at Pearl's. I'm not sure if they are under new management or just going through some kind of issue but the last few times we were there, they were totally disorgnized and the staff was rude, so something has changed. It's still a neat place to go see a good traditional jazz show, but not on your wedding night. The staff at the Top of the Mark is top notch, very classy place.

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco