James Beard Award Winner Chef Andy Ricker of Portland, Oregon’s Pok Pok restaurant created SOM to enhance his highly acclaimed bar program, believing bold and complex flavors should be experienced through both food and drink. Andy's SOM syrups/drinking vinegars/shrubs were recrafted, redesigned and relaunched in 2019 - look below to see what's available.

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