Mission, San Francisco · bar
A 17th-floor rooftop bar at the Luma Hotel, built around Latin American distillates — mezcal, cachaça, pisco, rum, and Bolivian brandy, each given serious treatment. The Caipirinha (cachaça, lime peel oils, crushed ice) gets called the best in SF; the Papaya Uva (Peruvian pisco, papaya, grapefruit, elderflower) makes a compelling case too. City views stretch from the Bay Bridge to Twin Peaks, and live music shows up on weekends.