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Trick Dog Launches 24th Menu: Meet Me In The City
21 Legendary Bay Area Photographers Featured in One-of-a-Kind
64-Page Hardcover Book for Award-Winning Bar’s 24th Menu
Trick Dog, the 2025 Best U.S. Cocktail Bar winner at Tales of the Cocktail as well as two-time winner for World’s Best Cocktail Menu and multiple James Beard Foundation Award-nominee, proudly introduces guests to Meet Me In The City, the bar’s 24th menu published in conjunction with its 13th anniversary and twice-yearly menu change. The menu features 16 brand-new cocktails, a host of new Highballs, Tiny Tini’s and Boilermakers, as well as a refreshed and expanded food menu.
Edited by Alex Ramos, Meet Me In The City is a 64-page hardcover book of photographs by 21 of the industry’s most respected photographers. The book’s striking cover features skateboarders barreling down Baker Street, one of The City’s iconic steep streets, photographed by Dennis McGrath in 1995. This new menu is one of the most ambitious and time-consuming projects, in terms of scope and complexity, that the Trick Dog team and its creative partners have ever developed. In celebration, Trick Dog will host a public book signing and meet & greet with several of the participating photographers on January 25, 2026.
Founder Josh Harris first had the idea to create a menu featuring a collection of photographs in 2016, and in the decade since, he’s fostered deep relationships with artists and used Trick Dog as a vehicle to show the work of many local artists, including several of the photographers featured in Meet Me In The City.
“We’ve been fortunate to have exceptional relationships with many photographers and with the success of the Mural Project (menu #9), we felt its style and format were perfect for recreating,” Harris says. After a fortuitous meeting with Alex Ramos at Leica Store SF, where Ramos has long worked and curated an enviable collection of photo books, Harris tapped him to help bring his vision to life and collaborate on a project featuring an all-star roster of photographers.
“I’ve always been a big fan of Trick Dog and when I met Josh, I immediately shared his vision for what this project could be,” says Ramos. “We poured our hearts and souls into this book and it’s an honor to help introduce the work of these photographers, each representing a different slice of San Francisco life, to a new audience. I can’t wait to see how guests will engage with the book over the next six months. I hope it inspires people to pick up a camera and make photos of our incredible city.”
“What Alex helped us create is nothing short of magical,” Harris says. “The list of contributors is a brilliant reflection of past and present artists capturing the soul of San Francisco and we’re honored and humbled that he was willing to collaborate with us and curate this incredible book of photographs that happens to also serve as our 24th menu and reflect the best version of ourselves. It’s fitting that a project with of this scope and ambition will also have an ISBN number and be listed within the Library of Congress as well. We’re delighted!”
In addition to Harris and Ramos, Meet Me In The City was conceived under the collaborative direction of Nick Akira Amano Dolan, Trick Dog’s beverage director and director of operations, and designer Bob Aufuldish, who has experience designing many photography books. This team designed the book with the idea of making a beautiful tactile object that feels good in the hand and printed to the same quality as any fine art book found on bookstores shelves. Meet Me In The City photographers include:
“Usually for our Trick Dog menus, the inception and creation of each cocktail occurs separately, but we’ve been working on the Meet Me In The City menu for nearly a year so it took on a different process and gave us the opportunity to research and match each drink with the photographer and their piece of work,” says Amano Dolan. “Alex interviewed each of the living photographers (or members of the late artists’ teams) and asked them what bars they like to hang out in, what they like to drink and what spirits or ingredients reflect them, and our team used those answers to inspire the drink that is named after one of their photos. Our hope is that we created a drink that each photographer would order if they came to Trick Dog.”
This extra time also enabled the team to make more ambitious in-house ingredients, including fermented tomatillo salsa verde (Lowrider), plum vinegar (Golden City) and coffee shoyu (Soundcheck). Under Amano Dolan’s leadership, the Trick Dog team works to create drinks with unique and bold flavor combinations. And through the philosophical lens of “minimalism and elegance through simplicity,” Amano Dolan also tasked them with integrating complex techniques served and presented simply. Meet Me In The City drinks include:
Trick Dog continues to be on the forefront of non-alcoholic inclusion on all its 24 menus to-date through formatting, presentation, naming and ingredient selection. Since opening in January 2013 and under the direction of Harris, who is more than 21-years sober, Trick Dog has seamlessly integrated non-alcoholic options throughout each menu. This intentionality underscores the team’s belief that non-alcoholic beverages are just as important as the alcoholic ones.
Photographer Janet Delaney says about the images she contributed to the book: “These diptychs play with our sense of place and memory. Cities change; holding onto the past while embracing the present can be akin to traveling through time. It is never a straight road. I’m always up for having my photographs appear in unexpected places. I’m excited to share these images of San Francisco with people who know and hopefully love the city as much as I do. Perhaps a drink will help clarify their meaning?!”
Published by Trick Dog on 1/7/2026, Meet Me In The City is a 64-page hardcover book measuring 9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches with 89 photographs. The ISBN is 979-8-218-82764-9 and proceeds of the $45 book, available for purchase at Trick Dog or online, benefits the Bon Vivants Scholarship.
