As you know, we here at SFist enjoy a stiff drink, and quite often we enjoy the kind of stiff drink that involves some heavy muddling and straining, esoteric tinctures, and housemade bitters. No, we're not cocktail geeks or snobs exactly, but a decade or so in this town has a way of raising your standards.

So, with that, we give you our fairly well informed opinion of the ten best places in town to get a cocktail that may run you north of $10, though a few of these places will give you something quite excellent for a mere $8. Hey, just be glad this isn't New York, okay? Bitches be charging $20 for a Negroni some places, and that just ain't right.