

Kevin Diedrich’s bar on Nob Hill has some of the more unusual cocktails in the city, blending spirits with Asian ingredients like pandan and calamansi. They also have a Toki Highball machine, a Suntory-designed contraption new to the US that turns out highly carbonated, ice-cold whisky highballs.
580 Sutter St., San Francisco, California
Cocktail Bar
(415) 398-0195
Longtime senior editor at Wine & Spirits magazine, Luke now works for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
This story appears in the print issue of October 2019.
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