Maker’s Mark bourbon, sweet vermouth, bitters. $7.50
Trax, San Francisco CA

I’ve often heard my New York friends refer to San Francisco as a drinking town, and I think they’re probably right. Our bars are generally more crowded at any time of day than anywhere else I’ve visited. And people are actually drinking and not just hanging out. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I’d rather walk into a occupied bar than an empty one.

Speckled pink konjac petioles (Amorphophallus konjac, Araceae), Castro.