City Paper’s Yards Exclusive.
Some more details about the potential brewpub that we keep hearing about at the new Yards Brewery are revealed in a story just posted by City Paper. They call it a “net exclusive” and the writer is Drew Lazor:
The front area of the brewery [has] been the subject of quite a few rumors lately. Will it be a brewpub/ restaurant? A bar? A tasting room? Kehoe’s not sure just yet. “I’m thinking it’s going be more like a beer garden,” he said. “Nothing too structured. There’ll be a bar, you can do tastings, go on tours, sit down at a table … and possibly get something to eat.”
That’s a big possibly right there. But don’t tell that to City Tavern chef Walter Staib, who showed up toting an insane cold cut spread, fresh-baked rolls and a steaming-hot kettle of his famous pepper pot soup.
Kehoe told me that the chef’s been visiting on recent weekdays with lunch for the crew — if they do decide to serve food at Yards, Staib wants to be involved. “A couple more weeks [of his food] and we might be sold,” laughed Kehoe. (The pair’s worked together since 2003, when Yards began producing Revolutionary Ales, specialty beers based off the recipes of the Founding Fathers for the Old City landmark.)
For the record, I talked with Tom Kehoe briefly at the wedding thing in Adamstown Saturday night and he said essentially what appears in his first quote above, that the space would be just a tasting room with minimal food offerings.
Walter Staib, however, apparently knows the way to a man’s heart. I hope that he gets his way.
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