Wildseed

Wildseed is a fully plant-based restaurant and bar on the corner of Union and Buchanan Streets in Cow Hollow, opened on 20 September 2019 by restaurateur Adriano Paganini's Back of the House group in the former Belga space, a four-year-old Belgian sausage-and-beer restaurant that Paganini closed in order to make the switch. Blair Warsham, previously with the group at the fried chicken sandwich shop The Bird, opened the kitchen. The menu is Mediterranean-leaning and entirely vegan — shareable plates, mezze, grain bowls and pizzas — and the room is bright and glassy rather than earnest, which is part of why it reads as a night out rather than a health errand. Paganini told SFist at the opening: "I wanted to create this restaurant because I work across the street and this is a concept that I felt was missing in this neighborhood."

The bar was built on the same logic as the kitchen, and non-alcoholic drinks are a named category on the cocktail menu rather than an afterthought. The mocktail list runs $14 and currently comprises the Negroni AF (non-alcoholic Ritual gin, melati amaro, house aperitivo and orange), Love & Lavender (non-alcoholic Ritual gin, lavender, butterfly pea tea, Wilderton citrus and fee foam), the NA Spicy Pineapple Margarita (jalapeño-infused non-alcoholic tequila, pineapple, lime and Tajín), the Serenity Spritz (non-alcoholic Lucano amaro, strawberry, lemon and ginger kombucha) and the Blueberry Brightside (ginger, blueberry compote, lemon, kombucha and mint). A separate "0% ABV Refreshments" section covers lower-effort ordering: a blueberry matcha latte with oat milk at $11, charcoal lemonade with agave and activated coconut charcoal at $8, a rotating seasonal soda at $8 and Koast Kombucha in mango yuzu or lemon ginger at $10, plus cold-pressed juices at $10. The practical upshot is a full dinner-and-drinks evening with no alcohol anywhere on the table and no negotiation with the server.