The Moss Room

We went underground this week to hang out with Eris Del Beccaro, an amazing bartender at the Academy of Sciences’ best-kept secret, The Moss Room. This super-sleek bar and restaurant is, unbeknownst to many, underneath the museum. How cool is that? Even cooler is the 28-foot moss wall for which the restaurant is named. Streams of water trickle behind it into a shallow fish tank at the base of the wall. The nutrients the water collect helps feed the enormous fish swimming around below. A bar stocked with only small-batch spirits, most of which you’ve probably never heard of, also makes for interesting conversation, especially with Del Beccaro. 55 Music Concourse Dr., S.F.; (415) 876-6121, www.themossroom.com

How did you get into bartending? I kind of got thrown into it actually. I used to be a server, and I was leaving a day shift and the bartender that was coming in didn’t show up, so they basically threw me into it without having a clue as to what I was doing.