Partying in San Francisco: Highlights for Barhoppers and Sports Lovers

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Jun 3, 2012 —  Nothing beats a rowdy party in The Marina, where the famous Triangle block teems with trendy chicks and wealthy finance dudes, or barhopping down Polk Street, when throngs from all over town flood Russian Hill.

Sure, you got plenty of people with flowers in their hair organizing drum circles, but folks here are also crazy passionate about 49ers football, and you’d be hard-pressed to find bigger diehards than the painted-up fanatics who root for the Raiders across the bridge in Oakland. It’s hard to top a day catching the Giants while overlooking the bay at AT&T Park, and the blocks of SoMa leading to the stadium aren’t lacking in sports bars with hefty pitchers lined up and ready.

This city doesn't take its beer as seriously as its wine, but if you’re crunching numbers at a bank Downtown, pushing past the panhandling hippies in The Haight, or throwing the ball around in Golden Gate Park way out in The Sunset, you’ll never be far from a gastropub or a brew hall with a thick beer menu and solid plates of grub.