Introducing Maven, a bi-level sanctuary of cocktailing with a ready-made menu that pairs a drink and a beer or wine with each small plate, opening Wednesday in the Lower Haight. When you’re looking to have a booze-to-food ratio stacked heavily in your favor (like two drinks for every plate), you’ll walk in here, take a stool at the redwood bar, gaze upon the expertly overgrown foliage behind said bar and hone in on a cocktail from the 10-deep list.

The innovative bar concept (opening Wednesday) from owners Jay Bordeleau (Beretta, Bacar) and David Kurtz (Saison, Coi) melds fine dining quality with neighborly attitude. An inventive menu is divided into categories — distilled (cocktails), plated (food), and fermented (wine/beer) — in three correlating columns for seamless food-to-drink tutorials.