Toronado (Civic Center and MUNI)
Toronado is one of the premier beer bars in the country. They have 40+ taps of serious brew and a huge bottle beer list. There are usually several beers on handpump. They take their beer seriously here and the bartenders know beer well. They have a week-long international barleywine festival every February with 50+ barleywines featured. They have occasional other special events which beer lovers learn of through their email list.
Extras: A nice little sausage shop next door will give you a basket to carry your food into Toronado (They do have a vegetarian sausage as well as a wide assortment of the usual). Loud jukebox music usually accompanies the fast moving bartenders.
547 Haight St. (between Fillmore and Steiner),
San Francisco • 415.863.2276
Map to Toronado from Civic Center Station
It’s over a mile, so you may want to hop a bus. From the east: Civic Center BART, exit on the north side of Market Street. Take MUNI bus #6, 7, or 71 which go up Haight Street. (remember to ask for a transfer for your return trip). Get off at Fillmore Street. Cross Haight Street. Toronado is on the south side of Haight 1/2 block west.
From the south, if you prefer, get off at 16th St BART, exit on the east side of Mission Street. Take the 22 Fillmore bus from the northeast corner of 16th and Mission (remember to ask for a transfer for your return trip). Get off at Haight Street. Cross Fillmore and walk 1/2 block west.
Official Civic Center Station and connecting transit info.
Official 16th St Station and connecting transit info.
February 16, 2008 at 12:55 am
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February 25, 2008 at 3:56 pm
FYI: I prefer to get to Toronado by taking the N-Judah MUNI “light-rail”.
You just get off BART at the Civic Center Station (or any of the other stations
that are on Market), climb one level up, and go into the Muni Light Rail Platform.
Get on the next N-Judah train (every 3rd one or so), and stay on it
about 5-10 minutes until the train emerges above ground.
Just after it crosses Church, get off and walk the few block up up
the hill on Fillmore to Haight St., turn left up Haight for another half block,
and you are there.
Alternatively you can stay on the N-Judah MUNI train for a few more blocks,
and get off at Duboce Park (before the train goes underground again).
Walk across the park and the few blocks to Haight St., and turn
right and walk about 1.5 more blocks. (I like this better
because its a level walk, more or less).
Either way, its less than 1/4th mile of walking.