New Growler USA Kitchen and Taphouse heads for San Jose
Silicon Valley beer lovers have a new place for suds and bites now with the opening of Growler USA Kitchen & Taphouse in San Jose. It’s the first California franchise for the Colorado-based chain, which operates microbrewery pubs in more than a dozen states.
The focus, as you might guess from the name, is American craft beer: 100 taps of it, poured by a staff of cicerone-certified servers and bartenders. They’ll be pouring wine, cider and kombucha, too. The food menu includes the expected bar bites, plus fried chicken sandwiches, zesty Brussels sprouts and a Brewben and Bromance Burger topped with barbecue sauce, bacon, carnitas and beer cheese sauce.
The San Jose taphouse is owned by Belarus native Vaslav Taranduke, who moved to Silicon Valley in 1991 and worked as a software quality engineer for Apple, Macromedia and Adobe.
“In the back of my mind, I was always a beer lover and wanted to turn my passion into a business,” Taranduke says.
The taphouse, which is holding grand opening festivities on Friday, Oct. 11, will donate $1 from every beer sold that day to Breakthrough Silicon Valley, which offers academic support and college counseling for kids in underserved communities.
Details: Growler USA pub will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at 787 The Alameda, Suite 10 in San Jose; https://growlerusa.com.