Alcademics

I was invited in to the new Bar at Osito, the room to the left of the live fire restaurant Osito in San Francisco's Potrero Flats neighborhood. 

The bar is just a small room with concrete walls and a few two-top tables. There is also a plant.

A small menu of food from the restaurant next door is available, and the main room doesn't have a bar, so essentially this bar is like sitting at the bar at a fine dining restaurant without being in the restaurant. 

The cocktails come from Bar Agricole, where Osito's chef worked for many years. The spirits used in the drinks are those imported by Bar Agricole too - Kilchorman scotch, Marian Farms biodynamic brandy, custom bottled calvados and cognac. Bar Agricole itself doesn't exist in physical form currently, though plans are afoot for a new venue... possibly in collaboration with Osito. So it's an Agricole cocktail program in exile. 

The Single Village Fix you may remember from as far back as Beretta when it first opened. That was one of the first cocktails on a menu in San Francisco with a full dose of mezcal, rather than splitting it with tequila back when we all thought the smokiness of mezcal was too intense. That was made with Small Hand Foods superb pineapple gum syrup, which was created by Jennifer Colliau at Agricole owner Thad Vogler's request when they both worked at The Slanted Door. 

But my favorite drink by a lot was the Pan American Clipper.