Trick Dog, a two-time winner for “World’s Best Cocktail Menu” at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards and multiple James Beard Foundation Award-nominee, celebrates 10 years of business with Museum of Trick Dog Art, its 18th cocktail menu, with proceeds benefiting The Bon Vivants Scholarship. The Museum of Trick Dog Art (MOTDA) menu will run until the beginning of July 2023.   

Under the creative and collaborative direction of an acclaimed team – including Josh Harris, The Bon Vivants’ founder, Nick Amano-Dolan, Trick Dog general manager and Alyssa Rusin, designer & illustrator who partnered with the team on In Good Spirits, the 17^th menu – MOTDA offers a retrospective of a decade of Trick Dog cocktails and menu art, with a custom-designed tri-fold menu (reminiscent of a museum pamphlet) and original Trick Dog menus custom-framed and displayed throughout the bar like a gallery installation.

MOTDA also features original work from previous menu collaborators, including a bespoke drawing from Ferris Plock, the acclaimed illustrator of What Rhymes with Trick Dog (menu #10, July 2017); brand new flash from Matt Howse of Tattoo (menu #13, January 2019), also father of Trick Dog bartender Travis Howse; and an original poemfromKatharine Ogle, poet and the editor of In Good Spirits (menu #17, July 2022). 

“To mark our milestone 10-year anniversary, we wanted to showcase our previous 17 menus in the physical space.  Visually, the collection is a powerful representation of the creativity and the continual evolution of our Trick Dog team,” Harris said in a news release. “It’s exciting and humbling to see a decade of menus displayed all at once in the bar. I’m remarkably proud of the incredible work that our team has undertaken and look forward to revisiting all 17 menus with new and returning guests.” 

“While MOTDA nods to drinks of the past decade, each of the 17 featured cocktails – the largest number of any Trick Dog menu to-date – are brand new and developed collaboratively by the Trick Dog team,” Amano-Dolan said. “This new menu has given our current team the unique opportunity to become Trick Dog historians and revisit every menu in the bar’s archives, understand the flavor components, patterns and approach to crafting cocktails and a reason to revisit that menu’s theme and tendencies with a fresh and updated lens.” 

“I was a Trick Dog regular before partnering with the team on the In Good Spirits menu, so creating the MOTDA retrospective menu has been a thrill,” said Rusin. “I recall many of these menus and loved revisiting the designs and themes over the last 10 years. It’s been so fun and rewarding to collaborate with Josh, Nick and team on the gallery as a way to honor the past and celebrate the future and see how the current team interprets each menu with a new drink.” 

An original cocktail is paired with each of the 17 menus from Trick Dog’s collection from the first, Pantone, to the most recent, In Good Spirits.  MOTDA seamlessly integrates non-alcoholic and low-ABV cocktails with higher-octane options, brand new highballs, boilermakers, sherry, beer wine and soda. Featured cocktails include: 

• Tourist Guide | Gallery 04, inspired by the Sutro Baths with fenugreek, Junipero Gin and cotton candy garnish à la Karl The Fog 
• What Rhymes with Trick Dog | Gallery 10, Goldfish cracker-infusedOld Pal  
• Trick Dog Airways | Gallery 11, a Tiki-inspired Rum drink garnished with a mini bottle of Underberg  
• Joy of Cocktails | Gallery 12, a non-alcoholiccollaboration with long-time friend and recent Michelin Star recipient, Chef Seth Stowaway of Osito  
• Whole Dog Menu | Gallery 14, a rum-based cocktailinspired byCubanpastelitos  
• TD University | Gallery 15, a dynamic color-changing vodka cocktail that will transport guests back to Science Class  

 Chef Timmy Malloy and team offer a concise menu of greatest hits to round out the offerings, including Trick Dog’s Famous Kale Saladwith curly kale, avocado, Parmesan, pepitas and slow-cooked egg yolk dressing; QD Mission Dog,a butterflied all-beef hot dog with strip of bacon, fire-roasted jalapeño spread, sautéed onion, mustard and “Doggie” sauce served on a hot dog bun; Quik Dog Burger, a 5 oz. house-ground chuck & brisket patty with lettuce, onion, pickles, American cheese; buttermilk-brined crispy chickenQuik Nuggets served with honey mustard and BBQ sauce; QD French Fries,thrice-cooked Kennebec potatoes; buttermilk-brined Crispy Chicken Sando; and plant-based options, including Veggie QD Mission Dog,abutterflied Field Roast vegetarian frankfurter with fire-roasted jalapeño spread, sautéed onion, mustard and “Doggie” sauce served on a hot dog bun and a ‘Beyond’ Quik Dog Burgerserved withlettuce, onion, pickles and American cheese.  

Proceeds from the sale of the actual tri-fold Museum of Trick Dog Art menu ($16) plus additional merch, including past menus, poem anthology prints by Rusin, Luvhaus Ceramics mugs, and more, will go to the Bon Vivants Scholarship, established in 2019, for which The Bon Vivants have committed a minimum of $150,000 over five years. In its first two years, the Bon Vivants Scholarship was awarded to ScholarMatch students who were the children of hospitality workers in San Francisco and the first in their family to attend college. In 2020, The Bon Vivants adjusted the criteria to promote racial and social equity through the power of a college education and starting in 2021, the Bon Vivants Scholarship was awarded to a first-in-their-family-to-college Black student attending school in San Francisco. ScholarMatch was founded by acclaimed author Dave Eggers. 

Trick Dog is located at 3010 20th Street (at Florida Street), San Francisco, CA 94110; 415.471.2999. The bar is open 4pm – midnight, Sunday – Thursday; 4pm – 1am, Friday and Saturday and the kitchen is open daily from 4-10pm. For more information, please visit the website. Parties of 4-7 people can pre-book a week in advance via Resy.  

To learn more about Trick Dog, visit http://www.trickdogbar.com/.