Financial District, San Francisco · restaurant
The Martini di Lusso (white truffle vodka, carpano bianco, truffle-stuffed olives, $40) is the kind of drink that earns a bar a spot on the SF Martini Trail, and this one did. Pair it with cicchetti, the Venetian snack tradition taken seriously here: whipped salt cod, porcini sformato with glazed hen-of-the-woods, wagyu bresaola. If you're still around when the Sbagliato Sorbetto arrives (Campari, Prosecco, passionfruit sorbet, all in one glass), you made the right call.
Slow-cooked pork cheek meatballs, their cicchetti bar anchor.
Venetian whipped salt cod on toast, straight from the bacari tradition.
Gray Whale gin, blood orange, gentian amaro — a West Coast riff.
Campari, Prosecco, cocchi rosa, passionfruit sorbet cocktail
Porcini sformato, glazed hen of the woods, morel mushrooms
White truffle vodka, carpano bianco, truffle-stuffed olives