Three local bar dudes who have worked and/or created bar programs at the city's most notable cocktail establishments are teaming up to open a new spot in the vacant Tokyo GoGo space at 3174 16th Street. The new place will be called ABV (the abbreviation for Alcohol By Volume), as Alcademics reports, and it will feature small plates as well as drinks, all priced around $10.
The team behind the project is Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud (owner of Dalva, Dalva Hideout), Ryan Fitzgerald (former Beretta bar manager), and Todd Smith (bartender at Dalva Hideout, and a founding barman at Bourbon & Branch). And while this will be a craft cocktail bar, the boys are planning to eschew all the tropes, trends, and design elements that are now synonymous with such concepts. Namely, they'll be avoiding all reclaimed wood, Edison bulbs, uniforms, fedoras, barrel-aged cocktails, bottled cocktails, and cocktails on tap. The drink program will be simply "things we like," and the food menu, after some consultation with a chef, will be snacky, with pickles and fried things and the like. They promise it will be "comfortable" and "affordable."
Tokyo GoGo closed in late May under the auspices of "renovations," but that is the industry code word for an abrupt closure that no one wants to admit, and which is most often permanent.
Expect ABV to open, after a remodel, around January or thereabouts.
