NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 03:52:22 EST Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu ba.food:64710 Porsupah wrote: > > There've been many threads enquiring after the "best restaurants" in > the Bay - an impossible question, but still interesting to follow. > > I'd like to invite suggestions for pubs in the Bay Area (especially > south San Jose, aka FranchiseLand). Where would you recommend for > finding a hand-drawn pint of a lovingly-crafted cask-conditioned ale, > for example? (One noteworthy establishment, The Englander in San > Leandro, only has the usual pressurised taps, but the selection of local > breweries' works - and many others - makes up for that) > > Brewpubs welcome, needless to say - most of what Magnolia Cafe (Haight > & Masonic, SF) produces is well worth the time, especially the new > Proving Ground Pale in cask, and 21st Amendment (2nd & Brannan, SF) > seems capable of some good work too, particularly the IPA and their > Yuletide ale. > > Gordon Biersch, downtown SJ - worth trying? Do they offer anything at > the 'heavier' end, such as a stout? (Their bottled selections would > suggest not) > > -- Porsupah Try Duke of Edinburgh at the intersection of Pruneridge and Wolff road in Cupertino. It is a shopping center but I can't remember its name. It is English, was made in England and shipped here reassembled, brought up to code and opened. It is surrounded by a little Hong Kong string of dentists, eateries, etc., so come early to find parking.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Best pubs in the Bay?
NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Feb 2001 15:16:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en]C-NECCK (Win98; I) Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu ba.food:64711 Porsupah wrote: > > I'd like to invite suggestions for pubs in the Bay Area (especially > south San Jose, aka FranchiseLand). Where would you recommend for > finding a hand-drawn pint of a lovingly-crafted cask-conditioned ale, > for example? (One noteworthy establishment, The Englander in San > Leandro, only has the usual pressurised taps, but the selection of local > breweries' works - and many others - makes up for that) > Marin Brewing in Larkspur Landing shopping center is the only place that offers a cask conditioned ale locally, that I know of. > Gordon Biersch, downtown SJ - worth trying? Do they offer anything at > the 'heavier' end, such as a stout? (Their bottled selections would > suggest not) They make German-style (using the term loosely) lagers. Try their Winterbock while it is still available. > > -- Porsupah
In article <1eobu3w.8bv946zxey08N%name=porsupah%domain=! butinoneword@tld=com.invalid>, name=porsupah%domain=@tld=com.invalid Porsupah wrote: > There've been many threads enquiring after the "best restaurants" in > the Bay - an impossible question, but still interesting to follow. > > I'd like to invite suggestions for pubs in the Bay Area (especially > south San Jose, aka FranchiseLand). For a brewpub, I like Stoddards in downtown Sunnyvale. They do a nice job on their beer and the food is good too. -- Yip
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu ba.food:64736 Yip Y. wrote: >For a brewpub, I like Stoddards in downtown Sunnyvale. >They do a nice job on their beer and the food is >good too. My only problem with Stoddards (and, by extension, most of the rest of the brewpubs in the Bay Area) is that it is *too* nice. I mean, I'd really like to drink in a place with a bit of personality. I'm thinking here of places like the late lamented 20 Tanks, and the Triple Rock... Kevin [email removed]
Kevin L. wrote: >My only problem with Stoddards (and, by extension, most of the rest >of the brewpubs in the Bay Area) is that it is *too* nice. I mean, >I'd really like to drink in a place with a bit of personality. >I'm thinking here of places like the late lamented 20 Tanks, God-*damn*-it! I had just gotten over the trauma of their closing and now you have to go and bring it all up again... Anyway, agreed: Stoddard's is way too sterile. And, like most brewpubs, the beer may be pretty good, but the food isn't. And the beer isn't *that* good. Still, better than Tarragon across the street, which has pretensions of hoity-toityness but fails to deliver anything close. Chester