Evan Williams

Bar Director, Dalida; San Francisco, CA

Evan Williams is the bar director at Dalida, a modern eastern Mediterranean restaurant located in the Presidio, a national park site. Here he’s built a program focused on local produce, foraged ingredients, and closing the loop on the ingredient supply chain. The drinks program re-imagines the eastern Mediterranean as a place with deep cocktail roots and Dalida’s cocktails are crafted with ingredients that embody this—spices, yogurts, and preserved fruits—while also incorporating foraged aromatics from the Presidio, including eucalyptus, rose geranium, and yerba buena. Evan has been bartending in the Bay Area for over a decade-and-a-half, cutting his teeth at Hard Water, The Beehive, and the James Beard Foundation “Outstanding Bar Program” award-winning Bar Agricole, among many others. In the intervening years, he worked in bars from Moscow to Bangkok and brings his love of international hospitality to everything he does.