Trick Dog

Top choice in The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill


Drink adventurously with ingenious cocktails inspired by local obsessions: San Francisco muralists, Chinese diners or conspiracy theories. Every six months, Trick Dog adopts a new theme and the menu changes – proof you can teach an old dog new tricks and improve on classics like the Manhattan. Arrive early for bar stools or hit the mood-lit loft for high-concept bar bites.

Trick Dog has collaborated with SF muralists to create cocktails based on their artwork, and proceeds from the resulting Trick Dog Murals cocktail-recipe book benefit the Mission's own Precita Eyes and Creativity Explored arts nonprofits.


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