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Drink in style with designer cocktails meticulously calibrated to match a Pantone color
palette. Choose your drink by paint swatch color: Razzle Dazzle Red gets you local
Hangar One vodka with house cordials, strawberries and lime, while Gypsy Tan means
Rittenhouse rye with Fernet, lemon-ginger and nutmeg. Arrive early for barstools or hit
the mood-lit loft for high-concept bar bites.
(
415-471-2999;
www.trickdogbar.com
; 3010 20th St;
3pm-2am;
12, 14, 49)
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Ritual Coffee Roasters
Cults wish they inspired the same devotion as Ritual, where devotees wait patiently for
house-roasted cappuccino with ferns in organic foam and specialty drip coffees with genu-
inely bizarre flavor profiles - believe the whiteboard descriptions of beans with grapefruit
or blackberry notes. Electrical outlets are deliberately limited to encourage conversation;
it works.
(
CAFE
415-641-1011;
www.ritualroasters.com
;
1026 Valencia St;
6am-10pm Mon-Fri, 7am-10pm Sat,
7am-9pm Sun;
;
14, 49,
24th St Mission)
20
20 Spot
WINE BAR
GOOGLE MAP
Pull up an Eames rocker and find your California mellow at this midcentury wine lounge.
After decades as Force of Habit punk record shop - note the vintage sign - this corner
joint has earned the right to unwind with a glass of Baker Lane Sonoma Pinot Noir and
not get any guff. Caution: deviled duck eggs could become a habit.
(
415-624-3140;
www.20spot.com
;
3565 20th St;
5pm-1am Thu-Sat, to midnight Sun, Mon & Wed;
14, 22, 33,
16th St Mis-
sion)
21
Lexington Club
LESBIAN BAR
Also known as the Hex, because the odds are eerily high that you'll develop a crush on
your girlfriend's ex-girlfriend here over $4 beer, pool marathons, pinball and tattoo com-
parisons. Go on, live dangerously at SF's most famous/notorious full-time lesbian bar.
