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San Francisco, California
Castro dance bar with go-go nights, karaoke and a back patio.
Toad Hall is a Castro dance-and-video bar on 18th Street, packing a compact dance floor, a back patio, and go-go nights into a space that fills fast on weekends. It borrows its name from a beloved 1970s Castro bar but is its own thing — the address itself carries deeper history, sitting on the former site of the Pendulum, which from 1971 to 2005 was the neighborhood's bar for Black gay men and their admirers. The current Toad Hall reopened here in 2009 and now runs an energetic, mixed neighborhood crowd through karaoke, weekday happy hours, and DJ nights. It's a good middle gear between the Castro's quieter pubs and its bigger clubs — somewhere to actually dance without crossing town.
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