Bar Iris
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2310 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109
Bar Iris is a high-end, Japanese-influenced craft cocktail bar in Russian Hill / Polk Gulch, opened in early 2022 as the sibling to chef David Yoshimura's Michelin-starred restaurant Nisei next door. Under bar manager Timofei Osipenko, the program leans on Japanese spirits and seasonal, often ten-plus-ingredient builds using ingredients like yuzu kosho, hojicha, calamansi, and Okinawan purple yam. Its non-alcoholic offering is unusually deep: most cocktails are available alcohol-free, and there's a standalone N/A cocktails menu. Named drinks that can be made zero-proof include the Ninjin Sour (carrot, yuzu kosho, coriander, lemon, amazake foam), the Okinawa (Okinawan yam, calamansi, li hing mui), and the Tsukemono Martini (sake lees brine, cauliflower tsukemono), alongside rotating seasonal builds. The SF Standard credits the bar with making "inclusiveness a guiding principle," and it earned a 2025 Pearl Recommended Bar recognition.
Non-alcoholic menu: what to order
- Ninjin Sour
- Okinawa
- Tsukemono Martini
- Rhubarb
Menus change — see the current full menu on Bar Iris's website.
“More than half the cocktails on this Polk Street Japanese-style bar's list can be made without alcohol.”— The San Francisco StandardSF Standard, 2023 →
Non-alcoholic brands they serve
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