North Beach Bars for Locals

Sooner or later, if you are a tourist in San Francisco, you are going to end up in North Beach. But let's just pretend, for a moment, that the area is not just one big cluster of tourist-stuffed Italian restaurants serving out fettuccini marinara by the beltload to camcorder-wielding Midwesterners in plaid slacks. Instead, let's imagine there's a large number of locals living nearby, and that they eventually must venture out and find worthwhile establishments. Fortunately, there are a few reliable locals' bars in North Beach, if you know where to look.