Kindred Cocktail Bar

On our list of the best romantic restaurants in San Diego.

Owner Kory Stetina built this South Park bar with design firm Consortium Holdings, filling the room with pale-pink toile wallpaper, gothic windows, and a wolf sculpture with four eyes and bared fangs, while a metal playlist heavy on punk and thrash plays underneath. The all-vegan kitchen serves dishes like chargrilled seitan skewers, congee with shiitake mushrooms, and a seitan riff on the Swedish meatball called the Abba Burger, alongside cocktails such as a Blackened Manhattan and a mezcal-and-jalapeno-hibiscus Pyroclasm. Vintage candelabras light the room at night, and VegNews named it the country's best vegan bar.