Dogpatch Restaurant Piccino Launches a New Bar With a Seductive Lounge Hidden Inside | Eater SF

"Located at 1003 Minnesota Street in the Yellow Building next to Piccino, Bar Piccino opens as a separate, 2,500-square-foot bar that keeps some of Piccino’s sensibility while carving out its own identity. After quietly operating for a few weeks, it debuts with cocktails from bar manager Andi Miller (who brings experience from Arguello and Third Rail), a focused wine selection tied to the restaurant, four beers on tap plus bottles, several nonalcoholic mixed drinks and beer options, and a small-but-mighty, bite-focused menu. Cocktails lean mezcal- and tequila-forward and center on a multi-negroni program of five versions (two gin, two mezcal, and a boulevardier made with a 10-year-aged bourbon); the bar is also making a house red bitter from four aperitifs from Italy and Mexico. Standouts called out by staff include the Cloudview (coconut-washed gin with apricot, lemon, bergamot, bitters, a Champagne float and honey from owner Margherita Sagan’s Sausalito beehives) and Andi’s negroni (Espadin mezcal, pineapple rum, strawberry-infused aperitivo and a house vermouth blend). The food menu is snack-oriented — think “mushroom fries” (tempura-like fried maitake with Calabrian chili sauce), potato tostone with kumquat kosho and salmon roe, and whipped mortadella with pickled cherries, toasted pistachios and ciabatta — and the space emphasizes craft and atmosphere, from a 25-foot Monterey cypress bar top on a marble base and locally made Italian-leather stools to handblown amber fixtures and a hidden lounge for 20–30 with lower ceilings, leather and velvet for a cozier vibe. Hours at opening are Wednesday–Thursday 4 p.m.–10 p.m., Friday–Saturday 4 p.m.–midnight, and Sunday 4 p.m.–10 p.m." - Dianne de Guzman