Farmer’s Table boasts five impressive bloodies – including the veggie based Peter Rabbit and meat-centric Butchers Block. With a nod to Baja, The Tijuana is made with jalapeño vodka and comes topped with a bacon-wrapped hot dog, Mexican-style street corn, pickled jalapenos and carrots, but please behold The Barn Yard! Prepared in a pitcher this mega sized bloody is packed with a whole roast hen, roasted veggies, bacon wrapped shrimp, and pickled veggies. Priced at a hefty $36 it’s recommended for groups of four or more.

All hail to the Bloody Mary Superior, which has graced ‘best of bloody’ lists from The Huffington Post to Thrillist. Crafted with house made bloody mix, Guinness, steak sauce, and chili-garlic vodka, it’s garnished with a rasher of beer-candied bacon, plus a shrimp, olive, tomato, pickled green bean and mushroom skewer. As if it couldn’t get any better the Superior comes with a free bag of pork rinds, and while it’s well worth the reasonable $8 price tag, can also come free as a ‘drink of choice’ with any brunch item.

Keep it simple with a Classic Mary at Café 21 or go big with the oft-photographed Prawn Star: stuffed with a giant smoked prawn it also comes with a veggie skewer and fresh basil. For a real meal in a glass try the California Greenin' comprised of housemade tomatillo mix it’s topped with veggies and miniature grilled cheese sandwiches.

Keep it classy at THE MED with one of six elegant bloody marys made with your vodka (or tequila) of choice. Globally inspired sips include the Sriracha and soy sauce crafted Shanghai, a Tapatio-Clamato-tequila Maria, and the Bayou with Tabasco and a fried oyster. The jewel in THE MED’s bloody mary brunch crown has to be its namesake Lady V, which comes garnished with a crab claw, bacon and Himalyan salt and costs $19.

Available on Saturdays and Sundays only, Davanti’s behemoth build-your-own bloody mary bar features 30 plus hot sauces, stuffed olives, pickled veggies, bacon and a plethora of tasty accouterments like prosciutto wrapped celery, with which to craft your very own work of vodka and tomato based cocktail art.

San Diego’s homegrown breakfast chain earns a spot on the map for its Jurassic Pork Bloody Mary. Made with Breakfast Republic’s own bloody mary mix the meal in a glass features a generous sized rasher of their signature thick cut bacon - marinated and baked with paprika and brown sugar - plus a skewer of stuffed pimento olives and requisite celery spear.

While vodka might be a dirty word at Craft & Commerce gin is not! Hence C&C’s House Bloody Mary, which is made with gin and garnished with a tasty Korean barbecue chicken wing.

Worth a mention is the tempura mushroom topped Bloody Marie at modern French bistro Et Voilà! Made with Skyy Vodka and housemade bloody mary mix it’s served with an extravagant garden garnish of micro veggies and peppers.