Botanica Art & Cocktail Bar

On our lists of the best cocktail bars and activities in San Diego.

Inside North Park's Art Produce complex, next to its community garden, Be Saha Hospitality opened this lounge in 2022, seating guests on lime-green velvet banquettes under digital frames that display NFT art for sale. Thirteen gin- and genever-based cocktails on the list are each built around a painting, from Van Gogh to lesser-known local artists. Four straightforward classics -- negroni, martini, French 75, gin and tonic -- round out the bar, and the kitchen sends out ten pintxos, including a trumpet mushroom musubi and a crab roll finished with gin-pickled vanilla grapes, or an omakase where the chef picks four or six.