This Week In Food: Beer and More Beer

East Brother Beer Co. is opening its first San Francisco taproom, Rec Room, at the Metreon facing Yerba Buena Gardens with an outdoor patio. The taproom includes a kitchen but will not offer food initially; only East Brother beers will be on tap and available in a retail area, with bar and patio games such as cornhole and darts. The East Brother team is also planning Tam Tavern in Mill Valley with bar-menu items like fish and chips and a double smashburger. Park Station opened in Alameda at 1200 Park Street with over 30 local brews on tap and food from Southie Alameda. Hon's Wun-Tun House expanded to the Sunset. Sun Moon Studio and Verjus landed on the New York Times Restaurant List, and Atelier Crenn received a three-star New York Times review.

"Richmond-based East Brother Beer Co. is opening their first San Francisco taproom at the Metreon, and it's dubbed the Rec Room. The taproom takes over a large space facing Yerba Buena Gardens with an outdoor patio, formerly Sanraku, and though it has a kitchen, as the Chronicle reports, there is no plan to offer food for now. Just a selection of East Brother beers will be available on tap and in a retail area, and you can expect bar and patio games like cornhole and darts."

"Another beer garden has just debuted in Alameda, and that's Park Station, in a former tire shop at 1200 Park Street. As Bay Area News Group reports, the beer menu focuses on local brews, with more than 30 on tap at a time, and food comes from Oakland's Southie, which is referring to this restaurant within the beer garden as Southie Alameda. Menu items include the Spicy Hog pulled-pork sandwich with jalapeno and lime aioli, and Fried Popcorn Chicken with paprika salt, as well as a truffle-bacon-and-egg salad, and kid-friendly grilled cheese options."

"Oakland's Sun Moon Studio and SF's Verjus just landed on the New York Times' annually updated Restaurant List a kind of 50-restaurant snapshot of "where to eat now" around the country. So, you can expect Sun Moon Studio, which has only four tables and already garnered a Michelin star, to be even harder to get into in the coming months. And the Times also delivered a three-star review of Atelier Crenn, marking the first review of that 14-year-old restaurant in a national publication (that we're aware of)."

Read at sfist.com