ABV

San Francisco, California

Winner of Best American High Volume Cocktail Bar at the 2020 Spirited Awards.

Co-founders Ryan Fitzgerald, Todd Smith, and Erik Reichborn-Kjennerd won Best American High Volume Cocktail Bar at the Spirited Awards with a Sixteenth Street program that organizes drinks by spirit base and delivers them with the consistency that high-volume demands. The short menu masks the technique underneath, each cocktail calibrated for rapid execution without sacrificing the craft that Bay Area drinkers expect. ABV operates as the Mission's most reliable neighborhood bar precisely because reliability at this level requires extraordinary effort.