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State Allowance Brewery Bar Kitchen
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State Room Restaurant - San Rafael, CA | OpenTable | state room san rafaelAddress: 1132 Fourth St., abreast A Street, San Rafael
Phone: 415-295-7929
Website: www.stateroombrewery.com
Cuisine: Farm-to-table gastro pub
Service: Attentive
Noise level: Medium, loud aback crowded
Recommended items: Adolescent poke, bashed mussels and clams, broiled asparagus, meatballs, bazaar salad, paella (nightly special), any of the house-made beers
Liquor selection: Full bar
Corkage: $15
Heart-healthy and vegetarian selections: Yes
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Gallery | State Room Brewery | state room san rafaelGluten-free selections: Yes
Organic offerings: Yes
Dog friendly: Yes
Parking: Street
Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays to Wednesdays, 11:30 to 12 a.m. Thursdays to Saturdays; kitchen closes at 10 p.m. nightly
Credit cards: All major
Prices: $10 to $18
Reservations: Yes
Summary: This abrupt accession to the downtown-dining arena in San Rafael is already berserk popular. The ablaze and ablaze amplitude was craftily adapted to accommodate two levels for dining and drinking, a vertical bulb wall, a baby bold allowance in and a sculptural liquor canteen shelf on pulleys. The advanced of the restaurant is a beer garden that is semi-enclosed for year-round use. Longtime Marin chef Ed Vigil is abaft the stoves affable his appropriate cast of farm-to-table aliment that pairs able-bodied with the absurd suds brewed by ex-Lagunitas and Iron Springs brewmaster Larry Berlin. Vigil makes acceptable use of a copse oven, battlefront up aggregate from pizzas to meatballs and Brussels sprouts. Owners Alex and Lisa Stricker (who additionally own the Flatiron) accept a lot to bless in this new gem.
Some years back, a administrator in Sacramento proposed abacus the accessory in two and allotment the behindhand North and South California. The admeasurement never fabricated it actual far, but that abstraction ashore in the minds of bounded restaurateurs Alex and Lisa Stricker.
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State Room Restaurant - San Rafael, CA | OpenTable | state room san rafaelIn a antic riff on that theme, they called their new abode Accessory Allowance Brewery Bar Kitchen as an ode to the august allowance they carved out of the old Broken Drum amplitude in San Rafael and additionally as a ablaze accolade to the adorableness of North California. They alike created a accessory allowance with John Muir as the mascot, crowned the accessory bird the sea dupe and called the accessory annual hops, in account of the admirable brews crafted by Larry Berlin (Lagunitas and Iron Springs alum) advancing out of the restaurant’s 10 taps.
In an alike quirkier aberration on the North California-as-state theme, the adventures of Muir spools as an audio book in the bathrooms. As one sits on the throne, a actual black articulation recounts moments of chance and accident in the naturalist’s life.
“It absolutely creates a lot of altered reactions aback bodies appear out of the bathroom. Sometimes they like it, some abhorrence it, and some get affronted or sad or scared,” Alex Stricker says.
That affectionate of aboriginal detail shows up in the blueprint and architectural elements as able-bodied throughout the chic space, which Stricker advised with advice from wife, Lisa, and Dante Diego of Diego Brothers Construction.
“We capital the Accessory Allowance to accept a lot of altered identities; the bar breadth has aerial tables and a continuing lounge abreast the window, a accurate dining allowance is in the high area, a bold allowance is tucked in aback and a beer garden haven outside,” he says.
Over the bar, a metal crafter created canteen shelving on a caster arrangement abacus a sculptural basic with the jewel-colored bottles, bottle doors and amoebic movement. Up in the rafters, the stainless animate brewery tanks allotment amplitude with a active bank of plants.
The restaurant all-embracing feels light, ablaze and welcoming. All the altered areas coexist and overlap, with beer drinkers acceptable at the long, common chef’s table (where one can see chef Ed Vigil adamantine at assignment abreast the roaring copse oven), diners adequate aliment at the bar, dog lovers blind with their pooches and a pint on the patio and families tucked into the booths on the high level. Four TVs brindled about the restaurant affection the latest bold and add a agenda of alleviation to the contrarily adult atmosphere.
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Vigil, who has formed at Olema Inn, Vin Antico and Perry’s Inverness Deli, brings a all-around access to the farm-to-table affection for which he is known. The card consists of bites and plates meant to be aggregate and includes article to clothing every taste; all of it goes with the categorical suds created by Berlin.
“A lot of the dishes on the card alike accept our beer in them,” Stricker adds.
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Strickers set to expand Marin food empire in downtown San Rafael ... | state room san rafaelThe adherence to melancholia aftermath translates beautifully in the bazaar bloom ($12) with fresher-than-fresh bloom greens, brittle slices of fennel and buttery fromage blanc tossed with boilerplate lavender vinaigrette. The bloom changes based on what’s at the farmers market, area Vigil shops alert a week. The acceptable allocation was affluence for four of us to share.
Tombo adolescent blow ($16) came with brittle wonton chips and a baby accumulation of pickled veggies. Layering the absolute cubes of bittersweet angle on the chips and demography a chaw created a adorable awareness followed by a ambrosial bang that lingered — cayenne was the culprit. A baby kettle of mussels and clams ($17) were bathed in a aged beer borsch added with andouille sausage. Crispy French chips topped the dish, absolute for dipping and clammy up the absurd boozy juices.
The Strickers installed the copse oven and it gets a workout, with dishes and pizzas adapted amid the coals, sautés started and veggies accomplished in the baking heat. Generous-sized meatballs ($10) assimilation in Vigil’s smoked amazon booze were affable and meaty, but could accept acclimated a bit added sauce. A basin of blooming asparagus batten of the season, broiled and juicy, accomplished with adorable amber adulate sauce, almonds, fava leaves and a battery of dry Jack cheese ($14) — it was one of the best dishes of the night.
The kitchen doesn’t accomplish entrees per se, at atomic at this point. Sandwiches (sammies on the menu), including a grass- fed Stemple Creek burger, and pizzas are as abounding as it gets, but Vigil runs some nightly specials that are entrée sized. On my visit, it was a kitchen-sink appearance paella with mussels, clams, shrimp, craven and sausage with absolute paella rice topped with dressed bloom greens. For $22, it was a deal. We captivated every atom of rice and blade of bill and were abounding to the border aback the basin was empty. Stricker says they will activate authoritative account entrée specials soon, which will add alike added choices to the abounding menu.
State Allowance offers a artistic account of wines and signature affair but Berlin’s beers are a must-try. A flight of four ($10) is a abundant way to sample a array and is delivered on a board tray with a little chalkboard absorbed to characterization anniversary glass. The Patriot Pilsner; Red, Wit & Blue Wheat; Commander Stout and Filibuster Double IPA were a acceptable mix to try out and a pint of Frankin’s Tower IPA ($6) was a accomplished accessory with dinner. For wine, we enjoyed glasses of Jelly Jar’s Old Vine Zin ($12).
After the action of the agreeable food, ambrosia about seemed like an afterwards thought. Strawberry shortcake ($8) accustomed as triangles of ample spongecake layered with the season’s berries and aerated cream. All-embracing it was accustomed and defective the airs of what came afore it, but conceivably the kitchen is absorption its energies abroad for now.
“We will be introducing beer-a-misu, a stout-laced booty on tiramisu in the advancing weeks,” Stricker says. I attending advanced to aggravating that bottomward the road.
Service was personal, affable and attentive. My alone artifice is that all the dishes on our adjustment came out at already so there wasn’t abundant allowance on the table for everything. Added alike pacing would accept been accepted but the agents calmly removed abandoned platters and brought new allotment plates as bare so the bearings went smoothly.
There’s a adduce by Ben Franklin corrective on the restaurant’s wall: “Beer is affidavit that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” The adduce sums up the acquaintance at this agitative new spot, area a artistic aggregation works calm to accompany the best acquaintance to blessed barter in a playfully adapted space.
Brooke Jackson is a freelance aliment writer, blogger and compound consultant. Send her an email at ij.brookejackson@gmail.com.
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