Side of Art: 10 Bay Area Bars + Restaurants Serving Creativity on the Walls
(Patricia Chang, courtesy of @juniorbarsf)

Side of Art: 10 Bay Area Bars + Restaurants Serving Creativity on the Walls

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In a place where hot new restaurants and bars are, let's be real, a dime a dozen, design-savvy entrepreneurs are looking to art to help distinguish their brands from the pack.

But we aren't talking about nice little painting in frames. Nope, murals, and even graffiti, are making big statements inside the buzziest restaurants of San Francisco and Oakland. From feminine florals to testosterone-driven hunting scenes to playful street art–inspired works, check out 10 local eateries winning at the art game.


From the owners of Brass Tacks and Anina, Junior takes bar art to an all new level. "The art wall came about really organically, says Sayre Ziskin, of SVZ Interior Design, who managed all the pretty trappings of this new bar. Ziskin was drawn to the work of SF-based painter Velia De Iuliis—"because it has a surrealistic quality while also being heavily detailed like Renaissance paintings"—and commissioned a masculine hunting scene that would dominate the space.

"I designed a medieval-inspired animal fight," says De Iuliis. "The romantic, war-like animals fighting feels like some kind of animal rendition of the fight between Cain and Abel," says Ziskin, adding that "It feels both old and new. It might even lean toward an allegorical representation of our current political climate if you want to take it there. // Junior, 2545 24th St. (Mission), juniorbarsf.com

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