Babcock & Story Bar — named for Hotel del Coronado founders Elisha Babcock and Hampton Story — anchors its cocktail program at 1500 Orange Avenue in Coronado around an original 46-foot handcrafted mahogany bar shipped from Philadelphia around Cape Horn in 1888. The Victorian-era centerpiece shares the Hotel del Coronado campus with the beachside Sun Deck, though Babcock & Story trades open-air sand seating for restored indoor grandeur and a gas-lit patio facing Coronado Beach. The food menu runs truffle fries, a charcuterie board, pretzel bites with house cheese sauce, and pork chicharrón alongside a cocktail list featuring a Jalapeño Basil Margarita and espresso martinis. Live music fills the bar Thursday through Saturday evenings, giving the 1888 mahogany room an acoustic quality that the open-beam Victorian ceiling delivers remarkably well. The expansive outdoor patio — one of the largest bar patios on Coronado Island — lines up uninterrupted sunset views over the Pacific, a vantage point that the fine-dining French-Californian tasting menus at Française also leverage from their Orange Avenue perch. The bar stocks a full spirits selection, San Diego craft drafts, and a rotating seasonal cocktail card built on house-infused syrups and locally sourced citrus.