We promise, no more tricks. After much anticipation, San Francisco’s premiere cocktail consultants The Bon Vivants plan to open Trick Dog, their latest cocktail bar and late-night food haunt in the Mission tonight. The new bar, which is named after co-owner Josh Harris’ vintage piggy bank, features beer, wine and a signature handcrafted-cocktail list modeled after the Panetone Color Guide wheel (shown above) that showcases housemade drinking vinegars, syrups and other tinctures. In addition to the elixirs, the kitchen also offers imbibers a full menu of eclectic bar snacks overseen by Zagat 30 Under 30 recipient Chester Watson that’s available nightly from 5 PM-1:30 PM nightly.
According to Watson, highlights on the opening menu include beer nuts cooked in Miller High Life, Heston Blumenthal-inspired twice-cooked fries, fried-to-order cracklings, chicken-fried sweetbreads, as well as larger entrees such as a Scotch egg wrapped in brandade with beet confit and salmon roe and The Trick Dog, an unapologetic homage to San Francisco’s private Olympic Club hot dog/burger, featuring a rectangular burger served on a hot dog bun, along with desserts such as housemade Fernet Mint Chip Ice Cream.
Destined to be the neighborhood's newest hotspot, Trick Dog is located in a converted warehouse in the same 20th Street-Florida complex that already houses the trendy Salumeria and Central Kitchen and juxtaposes industrial elements such as cast-iron and wireglass with mismatched vintage bric a brac, including the actual Trick Dog Piggy bank located behind the hundred-year-old marble bar that is accented with cast-iron plates and wooden banister posts reclaimed from The Warfield music hall.
Trick Dog: 3010 20th St, open daily from 3 PM- 2 AM, 2010 20th Street, 415-471-2999