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Cherished San Francisco beer bar Toronado listed for sale

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1 year ago

January 25, 2025

Cherished San Francisco beer bar Toronado listed for sale

After nearly four decades of running San Francisco’s most venerated dive-turned-beer bar, owner Dave Keene is selling Toronado.

Compass listed the bar at 547 Haight St. for $1,750,000, which includes a commercial space next door. Toronado confirmed the news on social media Saturday, writing that Keene has decided to retire and sell the bar after 38 years.

“This marks the end of an era for the generations of beer drinkers that have shared lives with us,” Toronado wrote on Instagram.

What began as another Lower Haight dive bar eventually became a monument to exceptional beer in San Francisco, with 50 taps boasting everything from Hazy IPAs to locally brewed barley wines. To celebrate the latter brew, the bar has held an annual Barleywine Festival for over 30 years.

Despite being renowned for its beer selection, Toronado still maintains a divey atmosphere — one that will likely stay in the wake of new ownership, if the bar’s Compass listing is at all indicative of what its future may hold.

“The seasoned patina in the interior is earned, with layers of Trappist ale signs, brewery stickers, vintage bottles, and more that has accumulated over the years—you can’t design this vibe; you can only nurture it over decades,” the listing reads.

Toronado plans to “celebrate Dave’s innumerable contributions to the world craft beer scene with 10 days of great events, great beer and great people” during the city’s annual Beer Week next month, the bar wrote on Instagram.

“Please join us as we regal 38 years of hazy memories and prepare for many more,” Toronado’s caption reads. “As Dave says ‘Its the people that make the Toronado’ and you are our people.”

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1 dead in house fire in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood

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March 25, 2026

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1 dead in house fire in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood

One person was found dead Tuesday night in a house fire in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood.

The one-alarm fire occurred in the 500 block of Dwight Street and caused major damage to the interior of the home, the Fire Department said.

Firefighters extinguished the fire and remained on the scene checking for hidden fire in the walls and roof.

One person was declared deceased at the scene. The exact manner and cause of the person’s death will be determined by a medical examiner. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Barricaded suspect in standoff with police in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood

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14 hours ago

March 25, 2026

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Barricaded suspect in standoff with police in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood

Updated on: March 24, 2026 / 6:04 PM PDT
/ CBS San Francisco

A person was barricaded inside a residence in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon in a standoff with officers, police said.

The San Francisco Police Department said the situation was happening at the Cadillac Hotel, a historic single-room occupancy building on Eddy Street between Jones and Leavenworth streets. Officers responded to a report of an assault at the hotel at about 2 p.m. and determined that the suspect was barricaded in one of the units, police said.

Crisis negotiators and other specialists also responded and were developing a plan for a peaceful resolution to the standoff, police said. An ambulance and paramedics were also standing by at the hotel.

************AVOID THE AREA****************
Barricaded subject at 380 Eddy. SFPD and SFFD on scene including our TEMS (Tactical Emergency Medical Services). Eddy St. between Leavenworth St. and Jones St. is closed to traffic. #SFFD pic.twitter.com/cQqsqGL3Tx
— SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA (@SFFDPIO) March 24, 2026

Members of the public were asked to avoid the area. The San Francisco Fire Department said Eddy Street between Leavenworth and Jones was closed to traffic.

The Cadillac Hotel was built in 1907 and has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since 1985, becoming the first nonprofit single-room occupancy hotel west of the Mississippi. For decades, it also housed Newman’s Gym, one of the oldest boxing facilities in the U.S., where boxers such as Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Louis trained.

Today, the hotel provides supportive housing for approximately 160 low-income residents.

In 2015, the hotel became the site for The Tenderloin Museum.

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Pain at the pump: One gas station in S. San Francisco near $7 a gallon

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1 day ago

March 24, 2026

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Pain at the pump: One gas station in S. San Francisco near a gallon

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – You’re not dreaming. Gas prices really are that high.

National average $4 a gallon, California $6

In fact, at the Shell station at 248 S. Airport Boulevard in South San Francisco, regular gas was going for $6.89 a gallon on Tuesday, about four weeks after the United States and Israel started a war in Iran.

Most people didn’t even stop to fill up; instead, drivers seemed to just pass the station by.

Juan Buenrostro did stop, though, and said it costs him about $300 to fill up his truck. He lives in Santa Cruz and had to drive to the Marina in San Francisco.

“It’s been crazy, man,” he said. “I have to work extra hours to make extra income. We’ve been struggling.”

That price is roughly double what the national average is. AAA said the average price of gas was $3.97 a gallon as of Tuesday, and the average price in California was $5.82.

Prices are so high that the state’s petroleum watchdog, the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, has launched an investigation into possible price gouging, specifically at gas stations charging $7 or $8 a gallon.

A Chevron in downtown Los Angeles was selling gas for $8.71 a gallon this week.

Gas was selling for $8.71 a gallon at a downtown Los Angeles Chevron station. Photo: Fox11. March 23, 2026

Kate Gordon, CEO of California Forward and a former senior adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, said $10 gas is not out of the question under certain conditions.

“Can you imagine a world where we’re paying $10 a gallon? … Yes, I can,” Gordon said.

Gas prices on March 24, 2026. Source: AAA

Last year, prices lower

A year ago, the average price in the United States was $3.13 a gallon, and the average price in California was $4.64 a gallon, according to AAA.

The highest average price for gas in California ever recorded was $6.44 on June 14, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.

War in Iran

Regular gas was selling for $6.89 a gallon at a Shell gas station in S. San Francisco. March 24, 2026

Oil and gas prices have been soaring since the war in Iran began a month ago, and when Iran began retaliating against the United States by choking off the Strait of Hormuz – a critical oil passageway.

Gas prices are likely to remain elevated for some time, even if the war ends soon, because shipping and production have been disrupted and will take time to recover. Economists now expect slower growth this spring and for the year as a whole, as dollars that are spent on gas are less likely to be used for restaurant meals, new clothes, or entertainment.

Lower income households bearing the brunt

Lower and middle-income households are likely to be hit particularly hard, because they receive lower refunds, while spending a greater proportion of their earnings on gas.

Neale Mahoney, director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, calculates that gas prices nationwide could peak in May at $4.36 a gallon, based on oil price forecasts by Goldman Sachs, followed by slow declines for the rest of the year. The notion that gas prices decline much more slowly than they rise is so ingrained among economists that they refer to it as the “rocket and feathers” phenomenon.

In that scenario, the average household would pay $740 more in gas this year, nearly equal to the $748 increase in refunds that the Tax Foundation has estimated the average household will receive.

And it’s only worse in California.

The impact will likely worsen the “K-shaped” narrative around the U.S. economy, analysts said, in which higher income households have fared better than lower-income households. The bottom 10% of earners spend nearly 4% of their incomes on gasoline, Pantheon Macroeconomics estimates, while the top 10% spend just 1.5%.

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